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Purely for fun, I have compiled a list of results for previous British Championships had the format been what it is in 2017, namely a nine-round Swiss.

http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/britcha ... tical.html

I have worked out who was in the leading score group after nine rounds for each of the years from 1949 (when the format changed from 12-player all-play-all to 11-round Swiss) up to and including 2016.

Apologies in advance for any errors I have introduced into the table, which has not been proof-read. Not to be taken too seriously but, hopefully, of some interest.

Ha! So my championship titles improve from 0.5 wins to 2.33333.......

Are 1954 and 2014 the only shared titles (i.e. titles not broken by a tie-break)?

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Are 1954 and 2014 the only shared titles (i.e. titles not broken by a tie-break)?

No, there was a third - 1997. My mistake, I put the open bracket in the wrong place. Adams and Sadler shared after a tie-break that whittled the winners down from four to two. Now corrected.