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Sunday's Scottish Championship games at

Round 2 boards 1-4 http://rs7.blueapricot.com/scottish/2011/r2a/tfd.htm
boards 5-10 http://rs7.blueapricot.com/scottish/2011/r2b/tfd.htm

Did anyone notice what Dvoretsky would describe as a Tragecomedy ending to Bd4?

R+RP v's R ..... White needed to play Kf1 (not f3) and park the rook on the f-file to stop the king being checked away and allowing the Black king out of the corner...

Just goes to show, if you keep playing moves, sometimes something turns-up...

Paul

Nice to have live games from the Scottish championship - and great thanks for that. Funny old chess today on the top 4 boards, though. One can understand the draw on board 2. Maybe on Board 3 Paul Roberts and Andrew Green know each other well or just think a quick draw gets an easier opponent tomorrow.

Anyway Craig looks well placed, having already played Keti. I guess Mr Sreeves will be a bit disappointed today but he's still doing really well. I don't understand Black's play on Board 4 - looks like he's been taking lessons from me.

Lots of decisive games at the top today: http://rs7.blueapricot.com/scottish/2011/r8a/tfd.htm

Round 9 coverage today with the pairings to decide the winner as follows:

1 GM Arakhamia-Grant, Keti 6.0 2464 Dempsey, Anthony 6.5 2201
2 Sreeves, Clement 6.0 2169 Grant, Jonathan 6.0 2204

Games have just started.

I'm here looking at the games live and then popping downstairs to watch the games live.

If both 'Grants' win then we will have a husband and wife sharing a national title.
I'm sure that has never happened before.

Geoff Chandler wrote:I'm here looking at the games live and then popping downstairs to watch the games live.

If both 'Grants' win then we will have a husband and wife sharing a national title.
I'm sure that has never happened before.

Is there a tie-break or any play-off in the case of first place being shared? I suspect Clement Sreeves would be one of the younger winners if he were to win and share first place...

I was just looking at Arakhamia-Dempsey in this position - 6k1/5q1p/Q4Pp1/p2p4/3P4/5N1P/P5PK/2r5 b - - 0 45 - and thinking that Black has real problems defending against all of White's threats. But the engine found 45...Qc7+ 46 Ne5 and now 46...Rh1+!! and, incredibly, it turns out that Black has a perpetual check. There are some mind-bending variations which I won't bore you with. If Tony Dempsey finds this, I'll take my hat off to him.

He played 45...Qd7 and now I think 46 Ne5 is more or less terminal. A missed opportunity but it would have been a miracle if he had worked out all those variations.

John Saunders wrote:I was just looking at Arakhamia-Dempsey in this position - 6k1/5q1p/Q4Pp1/p2p4/3P4/5N1P/P5PK/2r5 b - - 0 45 - and thinking that Black has real problems defending against all of White's threats. But the engine found 45...Qc7+ 46 Ne5 and now 46...Rh1+!! and, incredibly, it turns out that Black has a perpetual check. There are some mind-bending variations which I won't bore you with. If Tony Dempsey finds this, I'll take my hat off to him.

Wow, I hadn't seen that either. Amazingly that idea was once used by Alex Holowczak to save his game in a Birmingham League match between Warley Quinborne and West Bromwich. I was that shocked I blundered into a mate soon after

Kete soon mopped up, and her husband Jonathan agreed a draw shortly thereafter. So Kete Arakhamia wins the Scottish Championship again - well done to her.