2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by ThomasThorpe » Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:44 am

I can indeed confirm it was 22-15 to GM Keith Arkell, although it was 14-14 at one point.

Needless to say, they then managed 37 games in 1 hour - there were a couple of clocks that couldn't keep up (or their batteries ran out!) so there were 2 invalid games.
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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by John Upham » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:05 pm

Anyone know the URL for the live commentary?

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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:07 pm

John Upham wrote:Anyone know the URL for the live commentary?

Thanks!
Presumably this:

http://englishchess.org.uk/BCC/live-commentary/

But doesn't seem to be up yet. The live games seem to be half or a quarter there.

http://englishchess.org.uk/BCC/live-games/
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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:09 pm

The Nick Pert simultaneous display games and results are here (he won 14/14):

http://englishchess.org.uk/BCC/gm-nick- ... s-and-pgn/
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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by Ben Purton » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:11 pm

The number 9 there, Brian Tahron , he knows how the pieces move well. I played him at e2e4. Talented kid. So impressive result by Nick.
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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by Nick Burrows » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:40 pm

Yang-Fan opened his account with 1. h3!
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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by Steven Gardner » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:44 pm

Nick Burrows wrote:Yang-Fan opened his account with 1. h3!
I noticed that too, are we sure it's not an error with the sensors?
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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by LawrenceCooper » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:45 pm

Nick Burrows wrote:Yang-Fan opened his account with 1. h3!
It was 1 h4 for a while, I think we can safely assume there's a problem with that board unless Mike Surtees played the first move before realising he was on the wrong board :lol:
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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by Phil Neatherway » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:46 pm

Am I the only one watching RdeC's game?
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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by Nick Burrows » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:47 pm

Steven Gardner wrote:
Nick Burrows wrote:Yang-Fan opened his account with 1. h3!
I noticed that too, are we sure it's not an error with the sensors?
Erm yes, and has now been corrected to 1. c4 e6 2. h4!
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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by Jonathan Rogers » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:48 pm

LawrenceCooper wrote:
Nick Burrows wrote:Yang-Fan opened his account with 1. h3!
It was 1 h4 for a while, I think we can safely assume there's a problem with that board unless Mike Surtees played the first move before realising he was on the wrong board :lol:
If so, Surtees has certainly now found the right board :cry:
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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by Nick Burrows » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:50 pm

Surtees has hit Arkell with the mainline Surtees!
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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by stevencarr » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:50 pm

Nick Burrows wrote:
Steven Gardner wrote:
Nick Burrows wrote:Yang-Fan opened his account with 1. h3!
I noticed that too, are we sure it's not an error with the sensors?
Erm yes, and has now been corrected to 1. c4 e6 2. h4!
There appears to be an illegal move on that game. Nxe4

It has now been corrected.
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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by Steven Gardner » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:51 pm

Nick Burrows wrote:
Steven Gardner wrote:
Nick Burrows wrote:Yang-Fan opened his account with 1. h3!
I noticed that too, are we sure it's not an error with the sensors?
Erm yes, and has now been corrected to 1. c4 e6 2. h4!
Some spectacular play on that board, black has just declined white's king sacrifice and played a queen sacrifice of his own!
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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by Andrew Stone » Mon Jul 29, 2013 2:52 pm

Phil Neatherway wrote:Am I the only one watching RdeC's game?
Quick let's all start a discussion about the merits of the ECF membership scheme!
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