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British Chess Championships 2009
BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIP

Venue: Riviera Centre, Torquay
Date: 27 Jul 09 to 07 Aug 09
Controller: Mr Alex McFarlane & Ms Lara Barnes
Timings: First 40 moves in 120 mins. Next 20 moves in 60 mins. 30 mins to completion.


Round: 3

Bd White Result Black --No--
1 Howell, David W L....... 2614 (2) ..... Gordon, Stephen......... 2537 (2) 1 4
2 Jones, Gawain C......... 2554 (2) ..... Eggleston, David J...... 2341 (2) 3 21
3 Williams, Simon K....... 2527 (2) ..... Cobb, James............. 2432 (1½) 5 13
4 Wells, Peter............ 2498 (1½) ..... Salimbeni, George....... 2115 (2) 7 60
5 Trent, Lawrence......... 2471 (1½) ..... Jones, William EG....... 2052 (2) 9 68

6 Summerscale, Aaron...... 2454 (1½) ..... Lane, Gary.............. 2379 (1½) 11 18
7 Kolbus, Dietmar......... 2383  (1½) ..... Hawkins, Jonathan....... 2325 (1½) 17 25
8 Buckley, Graeme......... 2398 (1) ..... Ross, Chris N........... 2203  (1½) 15 40
9 Rendle, Thomas.......... 2377 (1) ..... Varnam, Liam............ 2167 (1½) 19 46
10 Griffiths, Ryan-Rhys.... 2137 (1½) ..... Conquest, Stuart........ 2572 (1) 53 2

11 Birtwistle, Nigel....... 2186  (1) ..... Arkell, Keith C......... 2521 (1) 43 6
12 Mackle, Dominic......... 2175* (1) ..... Gormally, Daniel........ 2490 (1) 44 8
13 Fitzsimons, David....... 2167  (1) ..... Hebden, Mark............ 2468 (1) 45 10
14 Khandelwal, Ankush...... 2160 (1) ..... Greet, Andrew N......... 2443 (1) 47 12
15 Eden, Tomer............. 2157  (1) ..... Palliser, Richard JD.... 2413 (1) 48 14

16 Warman, Simon M......... 2156  (1) ..... Houska, Jovanka......... 2392 (1) 49 16
17 Mueller, Jan............ 2149  (1) ..... Littlewood, Paul E...... 2358 (1) 50 20
18 De Coverly, Roger....... 2127 (1) ..... Sowray, Peter J......... 2335 (1) 55 22
19 Lalic, Susan............ 2334 (1) ..... Yeo, Michael J.......... 2136  (1) 23 54
20 Smith, Graham........... 2119 (1) ..... Lewis, Andrew P......... 2281 (1) 59 26

21 Storey, Charles......... 2279 (1) ..... Raoof, Adam N........... 2144  (1) 27 52
22 Briscoe, Christopher.... 2268 (1) ..... Gavriel, Tryfon C....... 2138  (1) 29 76
23 Zhou, Yang-Fan.......... 2265 (1) ..... Adair, James............ 2124  (1) 31 56
24 Constantinou, Peter..... 2264 (1) ..... Shaw, Peter............. 2123 (1) 32 58
25 Sen, Subin.............. 2093 (1) ..... Anderson, John.......... 2248 (1) 63 34

26 Sugden, John N.......... 2217 (1) ..... Reynolds, D Ian W....... 2092  (1) 36 64
27 Cumbers, Paul........... 2207 (1) ..... Rocks, Daniel........... 2037  (1) 38 70
28 Littlewood, John........ 2188 (1) ..... LeMoir, David A......... 2009  (1) 41 72
29 Galliano, Alexander..... 2050 (1) ..... Ynojosa, Felix Jose..... 2188  (1) 69 42
30 Surtees, Mike........... 2149 (½) ..... Rudd, Jack.............. 2326 (½) 51 24

31 Bonafont, Philip........ 2124 (1) ..... Addison, Bret C......... 2266 (½) 57 30
32 McPhillips, Karl........ 2231 (½) ..... Gill, Neville........... 2111 (1) 35 61
33 Burrows, Martin......... 2209 (½) ..... McClement, Andrew....... 1893  (½) 37 75
34 Green, Andrew D......... 2203 (½) ..... Dines, Sheila........... 1936 (½) 39 74
35 Garnett, John S......... 2059 (0) ..... Hanley, James L......... 2277 (0) 67 28

36 White, Michael J R...... 2259 (0) ..... Jones, Victor GL........ 2076  (0) 33 66
37 Hegarty, Sarah N........ 2098 (0) ..... Mcdonnell, James J...... 2023 (0) 62 71
38 Tunks, Dominic.......... 2083  (0) ..... Taylor, Geoffrey P...... 2003 (0) 65 73


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I don't know William Jones but he's had a hell of a start, hasn't he?

"Howell having to go the long way round" to quote racing

JustinHorton wrote:I don't know William Jones but he's had a hell of a start, hasn't he?

He's on 1.5/3 in the Under 16 Championship too, and he has taken a bye in order to play the Championship (Round 3 of the Under 16s is held in the afternoon for some reason). His only loss came in Round 1 v Richard Weaving, which is neither here nor there. A victim of the fact that Weaving never had a FIDE rating. He's much better than the FIDE rating given to him for the purposes of this tournament, because he's a junior and the grade is a year old.

JustinHorton wrote:I don't know William Jones but he's had a hell of a start, hasn't he?

He had a good 4NCL, 50% on Board 1in division 3, including beating John Sugden.

ok after getting all of the top 5 boards right yesterday with my prediction. i do well to better than in round 3 here goes. Howell to beat gordon jones to beat eggleston williams to beat cobb wells to beat Salimbeni trent to beat jones. lane to draw with summerscale. Hawkins to beat kolbus. Buckley to beat ross rendle to beat varnham conquest to beat Griffiths, arkell to beat bertwhistle.

Rendle V Varnam

An all Sharks affair

Surtees v Rudd to be the first to deviate from known theory.

Jack,

Can we see an opening that Stewart would have defaulted according to a previous thread?

I challenge you to "Out Surtees" Mike Surtees....

Only move pawns : that will confuse him!

Or alternatively, only move pieces?

John Upham wrote:Jack,

Can we see an opening that Stewart would have defaulted according to a previous thread?

I challenge you to "Out Surtees" Mike Surtees....

Only move pawns : that will confuse him!

I hope Jack's prep is a bit more up to date - Mike reverted to playing proper openings about 6 months ago - you may have seen his win against Stewart Haslinger at Bolton Easter on the BCM website

Mick Norris wrote:I hope Jack's prep is a bit more up to date - Mike reverted to playing proper openings about 6 months ago

As for example

[Event "British Championship"]
[Site "Torquay"]
[Date "2009.07.28"]
[Round "2.23"]
[White "Lewis, Andrew P"]
[Black "Surtees, Michael"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A40"]
[WhiteElo "2281"]
[BlackElo "2149"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 c6 2.c4 f6 3.e4 e5 4.dxe5 Bb4+ 5.Bd2 Qe7 6.Nf3 fxe5 7.a3
Bxd2+ 8.Qxd2 Nh6 9.h4 Na6 10.Nc3 b6 11.Rd1 Ng4 12.Be2 Rf8 13.O-O
h6 14.g3 Nc7 15.h5 Qf7 16.Nh4 Qxh5 17.f3 Nf6 18.Nf5 Ne6 19.Qd6
Rf7 20.Qxe5 Kf8 21.Kg2 Kg8 22.f4 Qg6 23.Nh4 Qh7 24.f5 Nf8 25.Qd4
Bb7 26.c5 bxc5 27.Qxc5 d5 28.e5 N6d7 29.Qd6 c5 30.Bf3 Nb6 31.e6
Rxf5 32.Nxf5 Qxf5 33.e7 Nfd7 34.Nxd5 Nxd5 35.Bxd5+ Bxd5+ 36.Qxd5+
Qxd5+ 37.Rxd5 1-0

He was back to his old imaginative habits one week ago.

His first 7 black moves were all made by 7 different pawns.
If White had not captured on move 8 I'm sure we would
have had all 8 panws moved in the first 8 moves.

[Event "ch-SCO"]
[Site "Edinburgh"]
[Date "2009.07.17"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Sreeves, Clement"]
[Black "Surtees, Michael"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B15"]
[WhiteElo "2011"]
[BlackElo "2149"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2009.07.11"]
[EventCountry "SCO"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 b5 4. a3 a6 5. Bd3 e6 6. Nf3 f6 7. Nh4 g6 8. exd5 cxd5
9. O-O Nc6 10. Re1 Nge7 11. a4 b4 12. Ne2 Bg7 13. c4 O-O 14. Nf4 Nxd4 15. cxd5
e5 16. Bc4 Kh8 17. Ne2 Ndf5 18. Nxf5 Nxf5 19. a5 Nd6 20. Bb3 Rb8 21. Be3 Rb5
22. Ra4 f5 23. f4 exf4 24. Bxf4 g5 25. Be3 f4 26. Bd4 Rb7 27. Qd2 f3 28. gxf3
Rxf3 29. Bxg7+ Rxg7 30. Nd4 Rf4 31. Nc6 Rg4+ 32. Kh1 Qf6 33. Qe2 Bf5 34. Rxb4
Be4+ 35. Rxe4 Rxe4 36. Rf1 Rf4 37. Rxf4 gxf4 38. Bd1 Qg6 39. Qf1 Nc4 40. Bf3
Nd2 0-1

John Upham wrote:Jack,

Can we see an opening that Stewart would have defaulted according to a previous thread?

I challenge you to "Out Surtees" Mike Surtees....

Only move pawns : that will confuse him!

The hippo is always a good option - for both colours.

John Upham wrote:Can we see an opening that Stewart would have defaulted according to a previous thread?

About 5-6 years ago, I went through a whole season opening as White with 1. Na3, the Sodium Attack (aka "Durkin's Opening). Will that do?

I had come to the conclusion that after 1. e4, White's position is in its last throes, then had played 1. b3 for a while, but found it rather dull. Casting around for an alternative, I came up with 1. Na3, which I am now amazed to say didn't affect my grade one way or another. Finally in the following season, I took up the reliable old 1. d4, which I am now very happy with.

Regards,
P.