English Chess Forum

Starts tomorrow. 11th - 19th July.

Rowson, Aagaard, Hebden, Prasad, Markos, Arakhamia-Grant,
Motwani, McNab, Shaw, Summerscale, Panchanathan....

You can see live games from the official site.
(somebody has done an excellent job here - official site is superb)

http://www.scottishchesschampionship.com/

I'll hopefully be doing a daily report covering the real chess.
Have already done intro.

http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandle ... handID=340

Also: I have been sent a waist coat from the organisers of the
2009 World Visually Impaired Championship for covering their event.

http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandle ... handID=339

So I'm going to look just spiffing wearing this - simply spiffing.

Sadly Jacob Aagaard has had to pull out due to injury.

Joke up here is that Scottish 'Open' Championship looks more British than
British (English) Championship.

Heard rumblings (again) that other countries GM's don't get treated the
same as English GM's when it comes to the Britsh.
But that's all politics as far as I'm concerned - I stay away
from that stuff. It get all too serious - Chess is fun.

Geoff Chandler wrote:Sadly Jacob Aagaard has had to pull out due to injury.

What happened?

Geoff Chandler wrote:Heard rumblings (again) that other countries GM's don't get treated the
same as English GM's when it comes to the Britsh.

I believe the ECF's position is that if it raises money as "start money for IMs/GMs", then that money goes to players who are ENG on the rating list. If the Scottish, Welsh or Irish federations wish to pay start money to their players, that's fine but it comes from their domestic budgets or sponsorship.

Last year's British made a loss - which was borne exclusively by the ECF ( as far as I'm aware).

Unless my computer is playing up, the live games aren't working. Boards 1-7 are not there full stop - Boards 8-15 seem to have frozen after an hour or so.

John Moore wrote:Unless my computer is playing up, the live games aren't working. Boards 1-7 are not there full stop - Boards 8-15 seem to have frozen after an hour or so.

Try

http://scottish.blueapricot.com/2009/r1/tfd.htm

Thanks Carl - 1-7 now working on my computer

John Moore wrote:Thanks Carl - 1-7 now working on my computer

Good, yes it's me now I am afraid...

Dave is reporting boards 8-15 as dead (for now...) until more testing can be done overnight

The electronic boards were equally dysfunctional at the early rounds of the British Championship last year. Maybe they could test whether the boards work before the event starts, rather than in the first round of the tournament proper? Or am I missing something?

day one report done.

http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandle ... handID=341

Fantastic venue. Very posh.

Understand there was a problem with live boards 8-16. I don't know,
I was too busy chatting up and falling in love with Lydia the Belgium WGM.
She lost to Magnus Carlsen (I think it's Magnus - have a look)

First round shock was Kakfa beating Andrew Greet - well it would have been
a shock to Andrew, I think he hammered Kafka a few weeks ago.

Jacob did back in last week.

I don't think Mike Surtees has a grade of 0, as he states on his scoresheet.

Alex Holowczak wrote:The electronic boards were equally dysfunctional at the early rounds of the British Championship last year. Maybe they could test whether the boards work before the event starts, rather than in the first round of the tournament proper? Or am I missing something?

You are missing something Alex as the DGT boards are both hard to setup and the software is basically poo....

Alex Holowczak wrote:I don't think Mike Surtees has a grade of 0, as he states on his scoresheet.

Given the rather elementary (French defence take on d4 with the Q allowing Bishop somewhere check) cheapo that he fell into, a grade of zero seems somehow appropriate ( in an ironic sense)

[quote="Geoff Chandler"
First round shock was Kakfa beating Andrew Greet - well it would have been
a shock to Andrew, I think he hammered Kafka a few weeks ago.
[/quote]

He seems to have recovered well from not playing since 1921.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=84307 lists only three games...

He has aged quite well since 1921.

There is a recent pic of Graeme Kafka on here.

http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandle ... handID=334