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Keith is winning easily because White is struggling to defend his b3 pawn and against Queen side breakthroughs. White has a Knight on g5 that is irrelevant.

Why is Hewson playing on at move 30. Has he not noticed White's extra piece on f4.

Keith won and Brian lost

Round 1 results & round 2 pairings now available:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr174982. ... d=2&wi=821
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr174984. ... d=1&wi=821

In the over 65, we have Ian Reynolds, Ivan Myall, Anthony Ashby, Oliver Jackson and Julian Farrand, who all won yesterday

In the over 50, we have Keith who won, Meyrick who drew, Brian who lost, plus Owen Phillips who lost to David Cummings

I think that's all the English players?

I'm aware of Irish and Scots players including forumites Craig Pritchett and Tim Harding

65+ live games

Anthony Ashby on board 2, Craig Pritchett on board 12

Keith on board 4 here
50+

Keith is a piece up for two pawns (move 22) and looks to be winning.

Two upsets on boards 3 and 5 of the 50+ - although I am not sure whether one is an upset since one of the winners is Boris Furman of Gibraltar fame!! Keith still grinding away but doing the necessary.

A win for Keith after 70 moves

Keith wins and well done. I thought Black defended rather horribly although Keith will probably tell me otherwise but it's a damn site easier sitting here rather than watch your clock tick with Keith sitting across the board from you.

John Moore wrote:... one of the winners is Boris Furman of Gibraltar fame!!

Can you elucidate? When did Boris Furman play in Gibraltar?

Round 3 pairings:

1 1 GM Nikolic Predrag 2603 2 2 IM Julia Ernesto 2356 18
2 19 FM Sorm Daniel 2353 2 2 GM Rozentalis Eduardas 2553 2
3 3 GM Ivanov Alexander 2506 2 2 IM Berend Fred 2347 20
4 21 IM McKay Roderick M 2344 2 2 GM Arkell Keith C 2499 4
5 23 IM Cummings David H. 2307 2 2 IM Bellia Fabrizio 2452 6
6 27 IM Habibi Ali 2255 2 2 GM Mohr Georg 2443 8
7 11 IM Bruno Fabio 2420 2 2 IM Smolin Sergey 2294 24
8 42 Blodig Reinhard 2147 2 2 GM Bagaturov Giorgi 2397 14
9 17 IM Berkovich Mark A 2372 2 2 GM Malinin Vasily B. 2261 26
10 7 GM Garcia Palermo Carlos 2446 1½ 2 FM Furman Boris 2218 32

Another tough draw for Brian
5 IM Wiedenkeller Michael 2454 1 1 Hewson Brian Wr 2058 53
38 Levrand Roland 2168 1 1 Phillips Owen S 1941 73

65+

Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 1 GM Vaisser Anatoly 2505 2 2 IM Giffard Nicolas 2303 20
2 17 FM Gutkin Boris 2311 2 2 IM Zhelnin Vladimir V 2469 2
3 3 GM Okhotnik Vladimir 2442 2 2 Kierzek Matthias 2234 28
4 19 IM Shvedchikov Anatoli I. 2310 2 2 GM Balashov Yuri S 2418 4
5 5 GM Vasiukov Evgeni 2392 2 2 IM Trois Francisco R.T. 2230 30
6 7 GM Kupreichik Viktor D 2369 2 2 FM Aparicio Anibal 2221 32
7 21 IM Leskovar Mario 2298 2 2 IM Harandi Khosro 2366 8
8 23 FM Micheli Carlo 2279 2 2 IM Birnboim Nathan 2360 10
9 13 IM Pritchett Craig W 2334 2 2 FM Harestad Thor Geir 2209 34
10 43 FM Titz Heimo 2162 2 2 FM Werner Clemens 2329 14
11 47 Iudicello Giovanni 2151 2 2 GM Pushkov Nikolai 2317 16
12 6 IM Bogdanov Valentin 2374 1½ 2 Farrand Julian 2018 89

72 Harding Tim D 2061 1 1 FM Vagner Grigorij *) 1933 119

76 Myall Ivan J 2049 1½ 1½ FM Gruzmann Boris 2250 26

35 FM Singer Hans 2208 1½ 1½ FM Jackson Oliver A 2035 81

54 CM Ashby Anthony C 2114 1 1 Gibbons Robert 1981 107

132 Rubinstein Mark 1902 1 1 Reynolds D Ian W 2078 67

Excellent endgame play by Keith Arkell in round 2. Not an easy ending to convert.