British Championships 2012 - Games

[Martin Benjamin]

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I'm not sure I am willing to take the risk of trying to work out what Mike Surtees is thinking on a regular basis [/quote]

Fatigue and/or time pressure seems to have set in. Mike is playing like I do in a quickplay finish after a day's work. One suddenly finds one's position unravelling, seemingly inexorably; and like all bad dreams, it feels like it is being enacted in slow motion, even as panic sets in.

[Angus French]

Is Shaw-Palliser not drawn if Shaw's knight gets to g2?

[Andrew Collins]

Is Shaw-Palliser not drawn if Shaw's knight gets to g2?

will be drawn now

foget that
(My board has just completly changed again, I don't know how)

well that is strange some weird stuff going on with the play chess relay there

[Martin Benjamin]

Is Shaw-Palliser not drawn if Shaw's knight gets to g2?

After 75...Kf5, isn't 76 Kxe3 (bishop) just a simple draw or am I missing something for the second time in quick succession this evening?

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 6 results:

Table White Flags Score Fed. Rating Black Flags Score Fed. Rating Result
1 GM Jones, Gawain C 4.5 ENG 2655 GM Turner, Matthew 4.0 SCO 2508 1-0
2 Holland, James P 4.0 ENG 2200 GM Howell, David W 4.0 ENG 2620 0-1
3 GM Gordon, Stephen 4.0 ENG 2539 Harvey, Marcus R 4.0 ENG 2134 1-0
4 IM Houska, Jovanka 3.5 ENG 2406 GM Arkell, Keith C 4.0 ENG 2441 ½-½
5 Jackson, James P 3.5 ENG 2126 GM Conquest, Stuart 3.5 ENG 2501 ½-½
6 IM Hawkins, Jonathan 3.5 ENG 2499 Mackle, Dominic 3.5 ENG 2130 1-0
7 Osborne, Marcus 3.0 ENG 2245 Chapman, Terry P 3.5 ENG 2290 ½-½
8 Hanley, James L 3.0 ENG 2244 GM Gormally, Daniel 3.0 ENG 2505 0-1
9 IM Hanley, Craig A 3.0 ENG 2419 Batchelor, Peter 3.0 ENG 2103 1-0
10 IM Rudd, Jack 3.0 ENG 2295 FM Shaw, Robert 3.0 ENG 2220 1-0
11 FM Walker, David J 3.0 ENG 2276 Weller, Jean-Luc 3.0 ENG 2115 1-0
12 Waters, Clive L 3.0 ENG 2106 FM Poobalasingam, Peter 3.0 ENG 2263 1-0
13 FM Storey, Charles 3.0 ENG 2247 Foo, William J 3.0 ENG 2009 1-0
14 Shaw, Peter 2.5 ENG 2168 IM Palliser, Richard 2.5 ENG 2482 ½-½
15 FM Eggleston, David 2.5 ENG 2323 Burnett, Jim 2.5 ENG 2174 1-0
16 Walker, Nicholas 2.5 ENG 2179 IM Kolbus, Dietmar 2.5 GER 2321 0-1
17 Surtees, Mike J 2.5 ENG 2113 Roe, Simon J 2.5 ENG 2275 0-1
18 Adair, James R 2.5 ENG 2262 WFM Bhatia, Kanwal K 2.5 ENG 2103 ½-½
19 Hackner, Oskar A 0.0 ENG 2014 FM Ledger, Dave J 2.5 ENG 2246 0-1
20 Coathup, Roger H 2.0 ENG 2136 FM Wall, Tim P 2.0 ENG 2347 ½-½
21 Ledger, Stephen 2.0 ENG 2089 Townsend, M Paul 2.0 ENG 2252 0-1
22 Mason, Donald J 2.0 ENG 2244 Jain, Radha 2.0 ENG 1868 0-1
23 Combie, Alex B 2.0 ENG 2039 Murphy, Hugh W 2.0 ENG 2180 ½-½
24 Foster, James M 2.0 ENG 2037 Jaunooby, Ali R 2.0 ENG 2165 1-0
25 Sugden, John N 2.0 ENG 2142 Wadsworth, Matthew 2.0 ENG 2037 1-0
26 Whitfield, Craig 1.5 ENG 2020 Hall, David E 2.0 ENG 2103 1-0
27 Elwin, Adrian G 1.5 ENG 1985 Brown, Martin 1.5 ENG 2224 1-0
28 Varnam, Liam D 1.5 ENG 2070 Lenier, Jude A 1.5 ENG 2016 1-0
29 WIM Maroroa, Sue 1.5 NZL 2035 Dodds, Edward 1.5 ENG 1861 * 1-0
30 Fabri, Henrik 1.0 ENG 2004 * Tambini, Jasper 1.0 ENG 1958 0-1
31 Burke, Mitchell 0.5 ENG 1917 Oswald, Graeme E 1.0 ENG 2178 1-0
32 McDonald, Ian 1.0 SCO 1876 Hoare, Amy B 0.5 ENG 1958 ½-½

Loss by default Grattage, Matthew

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Pointing out (for anyone who had forgotten) that tomorrow is a rest day in the Championships. Has the draw for Monday's round 7 games been published yet? I've looked on the main website and they don't seem to be there yet.

[Roger de Coverly]

Pointing out (for anyone who had forgotten) that tomorrow is a rest day in the Championships. Has the draw for Monday's round 7 games been published yet? I've looked on the main website and they don't seem to be there yet.

The usual practice is to wait until Sunday evening. The issue is whether they are going to get any withdrawals, noting that they had to find a substitute for Saturday's game.

[David Sedgwick]

Pointing out (for anyone who had forgotten) that tomorrow is a rest day in the Championships. Has the draw for Monday's round 7 games been published yet? I've looked on the main website and they don't seem to be there yet.

In previous years it's been the practice not to publish the Round 7 draw until Sunday evening, in case anyone drops out during the day.

Edit: Roger beat me to it.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Goodness, two replies at once! Thank you both.

But does anyone want to predict the draw? It will be Howell versus Jones, but what colours? And isn't Gordon also up there on the same score as Howell? Someone said above that the Howell-Jones game will be decisive, but surely Gordon is still in the mix as well? He lost to Jones, but what is his record like against Howell?

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Top 18 (everyone on 4/6 or higher) after 6 rounds are:

1. GM Jones, Gawain C 5.5 ENG 2655
2. GM Howell, David W 5.0 ENG 2620
3. GM Gordon, Stephen 5.0 ENG 2539
4. IM Hawkins, Jonathan 4.5 ENG 2499
5. GM Arkell, Keith C 4.5 ENG 2441
6. GM Turner, Matthew 4.0 SCO 2508
7. GM Gormally, Daniel 4.0 ENG 2505
8. GM Conquest, Stuart 4.0 ENG 2501
9. IM Hanley, Craig A 4.0 ENG 2419
10. IM Houska, Jovanka 4.0 ENG 2406
11. IM Rudd, Jack 4.0 ENG 2295
12. Chapman, Terry P 4.0 ENG 2290
13. FM Walker, David J 4.0 ENG 2276
14. FM Storey, Charles 4.0 ENG 2247
15. Holland, James P 4.0 ENG 2200
16. Harvey, Marcus R 4.0 ENG 2134
17. Jackson, James P 4.0 ENG 2126
18. Waters, Clive L 4.0 ENG 2106

Top three pretty much what you'd expect by rating. Three GMs and three IMs yet to extract themselves from the chasing pack of 13 players on 4/6.

[IM Jack Rudd]

The top three pairings look as if they'll be Howell v Jones, Arkell v Gordon, Chapman v Hawkins.

[JustinHorton]

I assume there's cricket today? Scores may actually exceed the current County Championship game in Durham where 35 wickets have fallen in two days...

[Andrew Collins]

will there be any live game feeds of the rapidplay?

[Andrew Martin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MikJEABaWbs

The top board clash in Rd 6

[Andrew Bak]

Round 6 Report