British 2016 Round by Round

[Roger de Coverly]

First round pairings now out at
http://chess-results.com/tnr231040.aspx ... =30&wi=821

No acceleration, just top 43 v bottom 43. Top seed is due for Black.

1 Shaw Peter 2143 Adams Michael 2727
2 Howell David Wl 2663 Kalavannan Koby 2131
3 Crocker Philip J 2122 Jones Gawain Cb 2650
4 Pert Nicholas 2570 Bicknell Carl 2121
5 Longson Sarah N 2117 Hebden Mark L 2509
6 Fodor Tamas Jr 2505 Klingher Dominic 2117
7 Fallowfield Jeremy R 2109 Gormally Daniel W 2494
8 Emms John M 2467 Talbot Nathan L 2108
9 Gill Oliver 2102 Arkell Keith C 2455
10 Pert Richard G 2441 De Coverly Roger D 2082
11 Hewson Brian Wr 2082 Tan Justin Hy 2438
12 Ward Chris G 2437 Mitra Roman C 2073
13 Hand Freddie 2062 Palliser Richard Jd 2422
14 Wells Peter K 2419 Birkett Richard 2053
15 Dilleigh Stephen P 2053 Houska Jovanka 2386
16 Eggleston David J 2376 Wager John D 2053
17 Bridge Neil A 2044 Batchelor Peter J 2341
18 Harvey Marcus R 2324 Moreby James E 2040
19 Payne Matthew J 2040 Kolbus Dietmar 2315
20 Claridge-Hansen William 2299 Pleasants Allan J 2038
21 Menadue Jeremy Fs 2034 Duncan Chris R 2292
22 Kalaiyalahan Akshaya 2288 Walker Samuel A 2022
23 Waddington Mike P 2018 Hill Alistair 2257
24 Storey Charles H 2256 Lentzos Ioannis 2016
25 Simons Martin J 2015 Brown Martin 2252
26 Asenov Pavel 2250 Starley Robert 2001
27 Ralphs Nigel 2000 Osborne Marcus E 2244
28 Lyell Mark 2238 Grigoryan Meri 1996
29 Grieve Harry 1994 Rudd Jack 2213
30 Nelson Jonathan P 2207 Elwin Adrian G 1992
31 Golding James 1991 Brooks Phil J 2190
32 Willmoth Robert F 2189 Brewer Callum D 1988
33 Clark Ian C 1963 Britton Richard L 2188
34 Jones Steven A 2186 Golding Alex 1961
35 Davis Lee 1946 Oyama Akito 2183
36 Coleman David J 2181 Keely Leo A 1938
37 Shepherd Katherine M 1932 Taylor Adam A 2168
38 Wall Tim P 2162 Dalton Joseph 1928
39 Zhu Richard 1905 Hackner Oskar A 2156
40 Graham David B 2152 Varney Zoe 1818
41 Miller Dominic 1783 Zhang Anthony Y 2149
42 Smith Andrew P 2145 Jina Taran 1764
43 Modi Shyam Jagdish 1655 Mason Donald J 2143

[Peter Shaw]

At least I've got white...

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Good luck!

[benedgell]

I'm hoping for wins for white on 11, 15, 19, 21, black on 4, 20, and 29.

[Jonathan Rogers]

Tim Wall at 2162 looks like a clear case of rating deflation (albeit one of many for those below the 2500 mark), doesn't it?

Anyway, we can only do a silly contest for the first round. Try to nominate games where the higher rated player will NOT win - with a maximum of five attempts.

[Jonathan Bryant]

At least I've got white...

These Super GMs. They don’t like it up 'em.

[Richard Bates]

Tim Wall at 2162 looks like a clear case of rating deflation (albeit one of many for those below the 2500 mark), doesn't it?

Anyway, we can only do a silly contest for the first round. Try to nominate games where the higher rated player will NOT win - with a maximum of five attempts.

Ok - boards 15, 25, 31, 32 and, the tie of the round, board 28.

[Simon Brown]

OK. 7, 21, 22, 25 and 29 with apologies to Jack. And good luck to all Forumites.

[JustinHorton]

7 10 21 24 28

[Alasdair MacLeod]

9, 15, 22, 29, 32......(and the bonus ball is 34).

[John Moore]

19, 21, 25, 32 and 34.

[Graham Borrowdale]

25, 29, 30, 33; hard to see any upsets against the 2300+ players, but there are bound to be one or two, so board 5, for double points please.

[Matthew Turner]

6, 9, 12, 21, 43
Good luck all.

[Nick Grey]

2, 17, 31, 34, 37.
The Ashtead match on 31 is my banker.
Best wishes to all the forum posters too on their matches.

[Kevin Williamson]

21, 28, 30, 34, 39