British Championship Congress 2019

[Matt Bridgeman]

4.5/5. He's consistently the best U13 in an age group that has excellent depth for both male and female players.

[JustinHorton]

Dark horse to win: Gordon

Fell at the first. Brought down by a sniper

Should be enough to count as a tournament win on Charlie's website

[Joey Stewart]

Oh, well if it is hidden away in the dead zones of the forums then at least we now have a discussion page in the active area.

I thought I would start with this- anybody know if there is live games being put online this year, I've had a look around and not seen anything yet (unfortunately the past British championships tend to be top of the Google searches)

[Nick Burrows]

Oh, well if it is hidden away in the dead zones of the forums then at least we now have a discussion page in the active area.

If you click on "active topics" in the top left it shows that the dead zone is the most active

[Roger de Coverly]

I thought I would start with this- anybody know if there is live games being put online this year

try chessbomb

https://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2019-br ... mpionships

[Tim Harding]

4.5/5. He's consistently the best U13 in an age group that has excellent depth for both male and female players.

Thanks for pointing that out. Two names had been transposed on the live boards output sent to me when I was arbiting.

(We had a few cases of that for some reason, but I hope I caught all the others.)

I have fixed it in the file for next week's TWIC now.

The player he drew with (from France) also scored 4.5.

[Nick Burrows]

This page https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tourn ... 2019/1/1/1 has the live commentary from Danny Gormally and Adam Hunt

[Ian Thompson]

Dark horse to win: Gordon

Fell at the first. Brought down by a sniper

Should be enough to count as a tournament win on Charlie's website

... and an increase in the current bargain rates he charges for coaching.

[Joey Stewart]

Great result for Tom Villiers - Tom has an uncanny ability to induce blunders from strong opponents and it happened again today with Daniel Fernandez's 52...Kc5 ??

You are not kidding there, I played 4ncl in the same team as Tom one season and he managed to win 6 games from worse positions when his opponents made massive unforced blunders - the force is strong with him!

[Joey Stewart]

Cheers for the links guys, I'll have to check out the next few days games

[JustinHorton]

... and an increase in the current bargain rates he charges for coaching.

What's FT there?

[Leonard Barden]

What's FT there?

FIDE Trainer (2017)

[IM Jack Rudd]

Topics merged.

[NickFaulks]

Adams - Pigott. After 10.Bf4 I'm thinking "I've got three pieces out, he's got no pieces out, why am I not winning?" What don't I understand about chess?

Answers via Dropbox if the file is too large.

[JustinHorton]

Is the answer "yes, but you got no centre pawns"?

(I've had the same experience playing the French, or even just looking at the theory. You have to have a lot of faith in those white-squared pawns.)