British Championships 2012 - Games

[Andrew Camp]

More positive stuff from the organisers:

My wife's Round 2 paring in the U140 was put up on the wall earlier so we wrote it down. It turns out that a result was put in wrong so it changed a few pairings, including Syringa's.

Kevin Stavely has just personally phoned us to tell us of the change.

Very impressive service and we thank you very much.

[Andrew Bak]

Adair should get a result here.

The ending still looks complicated but it certainly seems hard to see him losing that one.

There's still a lot of chess to be played today!

[Paul Cooksey]

More positive stuff from the organisers:

My wife's Round 2 paring in the U140 was put up on the wall earlier so we wrote it down. It turns out that a result was put in wrong so it changed a few pairings, including Syringa's.

Kevin Stavely has just personally phoned us to tell us of the change.

Very impressive service and we thank you very much.

I realise I should be praising the organiser too. But I'm too distracted by wondering how much opponent specific preparation gets done in the U140! Am I being offensive to the middle and lower grading bands? I honestly assumed everyone under 180ish just turned up and played

[JustinHorton]

44...Re6 was a surprising move.

[Andrew Bak]

More positive stuff from the organisers:

My wife's Round 2 paring in the U140 was put up on the wall earlier so we wrote it down. It turns out that a result was put in wrong so it changed a few pairings, including Syringa's.

Kevin Stavely has just personally phoned us to tell us of the change.

Very impressive service and we thank you very much.

I realise I should be praising the organiser too. But I'm too distracted by wondering how much opponent specific preparation gets done in the U140! Am I being offensive to the middle and lower grading bands? I honestly assumed everyone under 180ish just turned up and played

Move with the times Paul! With computers and the internet, more and more people are preparing for their games, I guess the percentage of people that do dedicated preparation will increase in a linear way with respect to rating, where 100% of 2800+ players do specific prep to, say 30% of sub-2000s.

I've just plucked these numbers out of thin air and am probably hopelessly way out...

[benedgell]

Can't remember the last time I did prep. The last congress I played in I was out of theory knowledge before move 5 in rd's 1 & 2. Much more fun then rattling out 10-15 moves of theory before stopping to think.

[Andrew Camp]

That's the forum way!

[AustinElliott]

Wonder if anyone's going to put the results of the Major Open up on the Championship website?

Re 'The Forum Way", apart from plucking numbers out of thin air, there's also

"Demonstrating verbally that chess contains more than its share of people who could start an argument in an empty room..."

- possibly together with the corollary:

"...And keep it going for several days, too."

[Susan Owens]

Kevin Stavely has just personally phoned us to tell us of the change.

Very impressive service and we thank you very much.

Perhaps they will ask for a 'contact number during the event' on the entry form in future

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 1 results:

Table White Score Fed. Rating Black Score Fed. Rating Result
1 FM Poobalasingam, P 0.0 ENG 2263 GM Jones, Gawain C 0.0 ENG 2655 0-1
2 GM Howell, David W 0.0 ENG 2620 Adair, James R 0.0 ENG 2262 ½-½
3 Townsend, M Paul 0.0 ENG 2252 GM Gordon, Stephen 0.0 ENG 2539 0-1
4 GM Turner, Matthew 0.0 SCO 2508 FM Storey, Charles 0.0 ENG 2247 1-0
5 FM Ledger, Dave J 0.0 ENG 2246 GM Gormally, Daniel 0.0 ENG 2505 0-1
6 GM Conquest, Stuart 0.0 ENG 2501 Osborne, Marcus 0.0 ENG 2245 ½-½
7 Hanley, James L 0.0 ENG 2244 IM Hawkins, Jonatha 0.0 ENG 2499 0-1
8 IM Palliser, Richar 0.0 ENG 2482 Mason, Donald J 0.0 ENG 2244 ½-½
9 Brown, Martin 0.0 ENG 2224 GM Arkell, Keith C 0.0 ENG 2441 0-1
10 IM Hanley, Craig A 0.0 ENG 2419 FM Shaw, Robert 0.0 ENG 2220 1-0
11 Holland, James P 0.0 ENG 2200 IM Houska, Jovanka 0.0 ENG 2406 1-0
12 FM Wall, Tim P 0.0 ENG 2347 Murphy, Hugh W 0.0 ENG 2180 0-1
13 Walker, Nicholas 0.0 ENG 2179 FM Eggleston, David 0.0 ENG 2323 0-1
14 IM Kolbus, Dietmar 0.0 GER 2321 Oswald, Graeme E 0.0 ENG 2178 1-0
15 Burnett, Jim 0.0 ENG 2174 IM Rudd, Jack 0.0 ENG 2295 1-0
16 Chapman, Terry P 0.0 ENG 2290 Shaw, Peter 0.0 ENG 2168 1-0
17 Jaunooby, Ali R 0.0 ENG 2165 FM Walker, David J 0.0 ENG 2276 1-0
18 Roe, Simon J 0.0 ENG 2275 Sugden, John N 0.0 ENG 2142 1-0
19 Wadsworth, Matth 0.0 ENG 2037 Coathup, Roger H 0.0 ENG 2136 1-0
20 Harvey, Marcus R 0.0 ENG 2134 WIM Maroroa, Sue 0.0 NZE 2035 1-0
21 Whitfield, Craig 0.0 ENG 2020 Mackle, Dominic 0.0 ENG 2130 0-1
22 Jackson, James P 0.0 ENG 2126 Lenier, Jude A 0.0 ENG 2016 1-0
23 Foo, William J 0.0 ENG 2009 Weller, Jean-Luc 0.0 ENG 2115 ½-½
24 Surtees, Mike J 0.0 ENG 2113 Fabri, Henrik 0.0 ENG 2004 * ½-½
25 Grattage, Matthe 0.0 ENG 1986 Waters, Clive L 0.0 ENG 2106 1-0
26 WFM Bhatia, Kanwal K 0.0 ENG 2103 Elwin, Adrian G 0.0 ENG 1985 ½-½
27 Hoare, Amy B 0.0 ENG 1958 Batchelor, Peter 0.0 ENG 2103 0-1
28 Hall, David E 0.0 ENG 2103 Tambini, Jasper 0.0 ENG 1958 1-0
29 Burke, Mitchell 0.0 ENG 1917 Ledger, Stephen 0.0 ENG 2089 0-1
30 Varnam, Liam D 0.0 ENG 2070 McDonald, Ian 0.0 SCO 1876 1-0
31 Jain, Radha 0.0 ENG 1868 Combie, Alex B 0.0 ENG 2039 0-1
32 Foster, James M 0.0 ENG 2037 Dodds, Edward 0.0 ENG 1861 * 0-1

[Andrew Bak]

Round 1 Report

Our Prediciton Competition page for Round 2 will be up shortly!

[LawrenceCooper]

Pairings round 2 (Tuesday, 24 July 2012)

Table White Score Fed. Rating Black Score Fed. Rating Result
1 GM Jones, Gawain C 1.0 ENG 2655 Chapman, Terry P 1.0 ENG 2290
2 GM Gordon, Stephen 1.0 ENG 2539 Roe, Simon J 1.0 ENG 2275
3 FM Eggleston, David 1.0 ENG 2323 GM Turner, Matthew 1.0 SCO 2508
4 GM Gormally, Daniel 1.0 ENG 2505 Holland, James P 1.0 ENG 2200
5 IM Hawkins, Jonatha 1.0 ENG 2499 Burnett, Jim 1.0 ENG 2174
6 GM Arkell, Keith C 1.0 ENG 2441 Jaunooby, Ali R 1.0 ENG 2165
7 Murphy, Hugh W 1.0 ENG 2180 IM Hanley, Craig A 1.0 ENG 2419
8 Adair, James R 0.5 ENG 2262 IM Kolbus, Dietmar 1.0 GER 2321
9 Mackle, Dominic 1.0 ENG 2130 GM Howell, David W 0.5 ENG 2620
10 Batchelor, Peter 1.0 ENG 2103 GM Conquest, Stuart 0.5 ENG 2501
11 Ledger, Stephen 1.0 ENG 2089 IM Palliser, Richar 0.5 ENG 2482
12 Osborne, Marcus 0.5 ENG 2245 Wadsworth, Matth 1.0 ENG 2037
13 Mason, Donald J 0.5 ENG 2244 Grattage, Matthe 1.0 ENG 1986
14 IM Houska, Jovanka 0.0 ENG 2406 Harvey, Marcus R 1.0 ENG 2134
15 IM Rudd, Jack 0.0 ENG 2295 Jackson, James P 1.0 ENG 2126
16 FM Walker, David J 0.0 ENG 2276 Hall, David E 1.0 ENG 2103
17 FM Storey, Charles 0.0 ENG 2247 Varnam, Liam D 1.0 ENG 2070
18 Combie, Alex B 1.0 ENG 2039 FM Wall, Tim P 0.0 ENG 2347
19 Dodds, Edward 1.0 ENG 1861 * FM Poobalasingam, P 0.0 ENG 2263
20 Weller, Jean-Luc 0.5 ENG 2115 Townsend, M Paul 0.0 ENG 2252
21 FM Shaw, Robert 0.0 ENG 2220 Surtees, Mike J 0.5 ENG 2113
22 Oswald, Graeme E 0.0 ENG 2178 WFM Bhatia, Kanwal K 0.5 ENG 2103
23 Shaw, Peter 0.0 ENG 2168 Foo, William J 0.5 ENG 2009
24 Fabri, Henrik 0.5 ENG 2004 * FM Ledger, Dave J 0.0 ENG 2246
25 Elwin, Adrian G 0.5 ENG 1985 Hanley, James L 0.0 ENG 2244
26 Lenier, Jude A 0.0 ENG 2016 Brown, Martin 0.0 ENG 2224
27 Tambini, Jasper 0.0 ENG 1958 Walker, Nicholas 0.0 ENG 2179
28 Sugden, John N 0.0 ENG 2142 Whitfield, Craig 0.0 ENG 2020
29 Coathup, Roger H 0.0 ENG 2136 Hoare, Amy B 0.0 ENG 1958
30 Waters, Clive L 0.0 ENG 2106 Burke, Mitchell 0.0 ENG 1917
31 McDonald, Ian 0.0 SCO 1876 Foster, James M 0.0 ENG 2037
32 WIM Maroroa, Sue 0.0 NZE 2035 Jain, Radha 0.0 ENG 1868

[Andrew Bak]

British Championship Predicitons Round 2is now up!

The deadline to submit your predicitions for this round is 3.00pm, half an hour after the games have started.

[Roger de Coverly]

Pairings round 2 (Tuesday, 24 July 2012)
etc

A really impressive number of pairings between players not on the same score. A function you might suppose of a very flat rating range across the middle of the tournament. A 100 point advantage is barely enough compensation for having the Black pieces so upsets are not a particular surprise.

It's good for second quartile players possibly looking for a norm run. After drawing with Howell, James Adair gets an IM this time.

[Alex McFarlane]

James Adaire was 'lucky' to get the upfloat this time.

We had quite a discussion about whether to accelerate this year or not because of the field. I looked at both the accelerated and non-accelerated draw for potential norm seekers. With a 2380 average of opponents' requirement it seemed that a 'normal' first round draw would make this figure much harder to achieve. Hence the decision to accelerate.