British Championship Thread

[Ian Lamb]

wow looks like howell got fed up of prep after playing e4 all tourny e5 he wheeled out the tromposky against pallister !

[John Philpott]

The British Seniors continues to be an extremely close competition. Overnight no fewer than 15 of the 30 competitors were either leading or within half a point of the leaders. The top three boards were again drawn today, as a result of which the erstwhile leaders (Norman, Crombleholme, Timson, Ashley and Barton) have been joined on 3½ out of 5 by David Anderton, Ivor Smith and Paul Kendall, with George Dickson still in play.

[Ian Lamb]

thanks for the update john very much appreciated

[John Upham]

wow looks like howell got fed up of prep after playing e4 all tourny e5 he wheeled out the tromposky against pallister !

Ian,
I think your keyboard may require new batteries...

[Ben Purton]

Wow with Howell? What is Gawain up to? This can't be compensation.

Ben

[Ian Lamb]

did Gawin miss Qa5 this looks good for black to me ben? why what up with my keyboard John?

[Ian Lamb]

wow gawain give up his queen now all happening in the jones willams game! now. lots of french openings about today to buckley v arkell lalicv shaw sowrey vgavral and also the rendle game as well is a french.

[JustinHorton]

It's hard to believe that Jones thinks he's got enough for the queen or that he thought he would. maybe he missed a backwards bishop move and thought that 16.Ba4+ was winning? Or as suggested that he missed 16...Qa5. Either way it's extraordinary.

[Ian Lamb]

2 pieces that all he got for the queen not making sense did he miss the bishop back then?i think he missed the queen move ffor sure.

[Phil Ramsey]

I think Jones has good compensation.

He can play 20. a4 followed by a5, then Ba4+ keeping the king in the centre and then Nb6 and the minor pieces cause mayhem.

Looks like he chose a different (inferior?) plan!

[Ian Lamb]

after e6 iam seeing no comp for jones what so ever.

[Alex Holowczak]

Wow with Howell? What is Gawain up to? This can't be compensation.

Ben

Fritz thought there might have been, but not after d5 and e5 were played. They must be trying to avoid a draw, since it really benefits neither of them if they're going to catch Howell.

[JustinHorton]

I think Jones has good compensation.

He can play 20. a4 followed by a5, then Ba4+ keeping the king in the centre and then Nb6 and the minor pieces cause mayhem.

Does he have time for that after 20..Qh5?

[Ian Lamb]

it hard to think jones missed that the bishop could come back but then again jones was playing really fast around that time so maybe he did when you play fast easy to miss things like that the calculation is not as good with speed thinking.

[Jonathan Bryant]

So... you've been in two time scrambles on the previous two days. How do you respond to that? You turn up at least 6 minutes late the following day.

Wells was routinely late at last year's Staunton Memorial ... and chucked many points away in the time scrambles he ended up with in most of his games.

http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.c ... ck-ii.html

I rather suspect that the habits/mindset/whatever that get you late to a game are the same ones that get you into time trouble.