e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open

[Carl Hibbard]

Richard - just to be clear, my comment about the ECF was in regard to the sets, boards and clocks they provide, not the DGT boards. You're right - if we had to pay for using the DGT boards we might well not bother.

Plus server costs of course

[Mike Truran]

Indeed.

[Richard Bates]

The inputters highly value the service - it's 16 to 24 games we don't have to key in.

Yeah but the extra day on top of the 3 to 4 weeks it takes them at the moment to complete the job won't make too much difference

Do I interpret this as you volunteering to help out?

Certainly not, I wouldn't want to deny you the obvious, if perverse, enjoyment you get out of the job. And who knows, with a lot more practice you might manage to get a bit quicker as well

[Sean Hewitt]

And who knows, with a lot more practice you might manage to get a bit quicker as well

He's done pretty well at Sunningdale. All 5 rounds from the Open and Major are keyed in and online.

[Sean Hewitt]

Interesting incident at the start of round 6. Player approaches me at 10.25 and says that he was late for his game but that when he got to his board someone else was already playing his game. Seems that another player was also late and, seeing a board with a player missing he just sat there and started playing, only to find that he was at the wrong board!

When that player was told and diverted to the correct board, he even asked if he could have the 10 minutes back on the clock that he had spent playing the wrong game!

[David Brock]

Sean out of interest why has Colin Crouch got two 1/2 point = in round 4 and 6 is this normal?

[IM Jack Rudd]

Sean out of interest why has Colin Crouch got two 1/2 point = in round 4 and 6 is this normal?

Health reasons, I think.

[Sean Hewitt]

Sean out of interest why has Colin Crouch got two 1/2 point = in round 4 and 6 is this normal?

Simply because he asked for a bye in each of rounds 4 and 6. We allow all players to take up to three 1/2 point byes in any of the first 6 rounds. In fact, if you look you will see that Colin is not the only player to take two byes and at least oe player has had three. So yes, this is perfectly normal.

[John Hickman]

Thanks to Sean, David and the unseen helpers for a great long weekend of Chess

[Sean Hewitt]

Thanks John. I would like to thank each of the 172 players who made it, I think, the best event that we have run so far.

All results are now online

Open
Major
Minor

Together with pgn files from all 7 rounds of both the open and the major.

Enjoy.

[Mike Truran]

Well done Alex! (et al)

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Thanks to Sean, David and the unseen helpers for a great long weekend of Chess

Long in more ways than one. I enjoyed the weekend and the chess as always, but I think my game was the last to finish in both rounds 6 and 7, so I was playing chess from 10:00 to around 19:20 with only a half hour break between 14:30 and 15:00. The games were 85 and 74 moves (draw and loss).

It wasn't as tiring as it sounds, but both games were swinging back and forth and I probably played about 20-40 moves in each game where both players were down to only a few minutes each, which at 30 seconds/move has a peculiar tension all of its own (different from the tension of a blitz/rapidplay finish). Enjoyable for spectators, but horrible as a player when some little problem crops up and you only have a few minutes to try and work out the variations.

Does anyone have any tips for how to play chess at 30s/move when you are down to less than 3 minutes? I find myself using up most of the time towards the end of a game trying to avoid blunders, because I know that at this time control the opponent will be able to finish off the game if you blunder. But then the resulting time shortage itself starts to induce blunders. And you can't take a break and may have to sit at the board for a long time before the game is finished in some endgames. Time torture, rather than time scramble, is what I've started calling it.

Oh, and as Mike says, many thanks to all who organised and helped with the event.

PS. I had a look at the Arkell miniature from round 1 (Open), which was very nice. Not all my games were long, and in the same vein I won a 19-move miniature in round 4 (Major). In fact, there were quite a few miniatures. Is it possible to get a list of all the games that were 20 or 25 moves or less?

[Roger de Coverly]

[In fact, there were quite a few miniatures. Is it possible to get a list of all the games that were 20 or 25 moves or less?

As I can't be bothered to edit it into a list, here's the PGN of all decisive results in 25 moves or less. The Major first followed by the Open.

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Major"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.27"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Fitzgerald, Robert"]
[Black "Pink, Joshua"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1962"]
[BlackElo "1802"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4 6.d4 exd4 7.Re1
d5 8.Nxd4 Bd6 9.g3 O-O 10.Nxc6 Qf6 11.Be3 bxc6 12.Bxc6 Bxg3 13.Bxd5
Bxf2+ 14.Bxf2 Qxf2+ 15.Kh1 Bg4 16.Qxg4 Qxe1+ 17.Kg2 Rae8 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Major"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.28"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Bennett, Eric"]
[Black "Marley, Andrew S G"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1981"]
[BlackElo "1849"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f4 O-O 6.Nf3 c5 7.d5 e6
8.Be2 exd5 9.cxd5 Nbd7 10.O-O Re8 11.Nd2 a6 12.a4 c4 13.Qc2 Nc5
14.Bf3 Bg4 15.Nxc4 Bxf3 16.gxf3 Nh5 17.b4 Nd7 18.Be3 Rc8 19.Qd3
Qc7 20.Nxd6 Qxd6 21.e5 Nxe5 22.fxe5 Qxe5 23.Bd2 Qd4+ 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Major"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.28"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Kuhendiran, Tharshan"]
[Black "Bryant, Jonathan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1546"]
[BlackElo "1954"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.f4 Nf6 2.b3 d6 3.Bb2 Nbd7 4.Nf3 e5 5.fxe5 dxe5 6.Nxe5 Nxe5
7.Bxe5 Ng4 8.Bb2 Bd6 9.g3 Nxh2 10.Rg1 Qg5 11.Bd4 Bxg3+ 12.Rxg3
Qxg3+ 13.Bf2 Qg6 14.d3 Nxf1 15.Kxf1 Bh3+ 16.Ke1 Qf6 17.c3 O-O-O
18.Qc2 Rhe8 19.a4 Qf3 20.d4 Bf5 21.Qb2 Qh1+ 22.Kd2 Qf1 23.Be3
Rxe3 24.Kxe3 Re8+ 25.Kd2 Rxe2# 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Major"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.28"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Harley-Yeo, Gareth"]
[Black "Cork, David J"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1994"]
[BlackElo "1824"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nge2 Nbd7 6.Ng3 c5 7.d5
O-O 8.Be2 Re8 9.O-O Nf8 10.Bf4 Qb6 11.Qd2 Bg4 12.f3 Bd7 13.Rab1
Qa5 14.Bh6 Bh8 15.h4 a6 16.h5 b5 17.hxg6 hxg6 18.a3 bxc4 19.Kf2
e6 20.Rh1 exd5 21.Bxf8 Rxf8 22.Rxh8+ Kxh8 23.Qh6+ 1-0

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Major"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.28"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Fell, Colin"]
[Black "Jackson, Paul G"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1562"]
[BlackElo "1876"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d3 e6 2.g3 f5 3.Bg2 Nf6 4.Nd2 d6 5.e4 fxe4 6.dxe4 e5 7.Ne2
Be7 8.c3 Be6 9.f4 Nc6 10.b4 Qd7 11.f5 Bf7 12.a4 d5 13.O-O Rd8
14.Qc2 dxe4 15.Ba3 Qxd2 16.Qxd2 Rxd2 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Major"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.28"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Wallman, Martin"]
[Black "Foster, Tim"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1882"]
[BlackElo "1626"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.d3 d5 5.O-O Bg4 6.Nbd2 Nbd7 7.c4
c6 8.cxd5 Nxd5 9.Nc4 O-O 10.Rb1 Qc7 11.Bg5 N7b6 12.Qc2 e5 13.a3
Nxc4 14.Qxc4 Be6 15.Qc1 Rfe8 16.Bh6 Bh8 17.Bd2 a5 18.b4 axb4
19.axb4 Bd7 20.e4 Ne7 21.Ng5 f5 22.Qc4+ 1-0

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Major"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.28"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Cork, David J"]
[Black "Fell, Colin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1824"]
[BlackElo "1562"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Bf4 Nd7 5.Nf3 e6 6.Qd2 h5 7.Bc4 a6
8.O-O-O e5 9.dxe5 b5 10.Bxf7+ Kxf7 11.Qd5+ Ke8 12.Qxa8 Nc5 13.exd6
Bxc3 14.dxc7 Bxb2+ 15.Kb1 1-0

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Major"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.29"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Zhang, Roy Yinian"]
[Black "Kreuzer, Christopher R L"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1830"]
[BlackElo "1929"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.e3 c5 4.b3 cxd4 5.exd4 d5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.O-O
Qc7 8.a3 Bd6 9.Re1 O-O 10.Bb2 Ne7 11.Nbd2 Ng6 12.g3 Ng4 13.c4
f5 14.Qe2 f4 15.Ne5 N6xe5 16.dxe5 fxg3 17.exd6 Qb6 18.Qxg4 Qxf2+
19.Kh1 Qxh2# 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Major"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.29"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Wood-Robinson, Max"]
[Black "Wilson, Matthew W"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1794"]
[BlackElo "1834"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.d4 cxd4 5.cxd4 d6 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.b3
g6 8.Bb2 Bg7 9.Nbd2 O-O 10.g3 dxe5 11.dxe5 Ndb4 12.a3 Nd3+ 13.Bxd3
Qxd3 14.Rc1 Rd8 15.Rc3 Qd5 16.Re3 Bg4 17.Qe2 Bh6 18.h3 Bxe3 19.hxg4 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Major"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.29"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Bryant, Jonathan"]
[Black "Stephenson, David"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1954"]
[BlackElo "1994"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.Nf3 Nc6 2.e4 e5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Bc5 5.O-O d6 6.d4 exd4 7.Nxd4
Bd7 8.Nf5 O-O 9.Bg5 h6 10.Bh4 a6 11.Ba4 Kh7 12.Nxg7 b5 13.Nh5
Bd4 14.Nd5 bxa4 15.Nhxf6+ Kh8 16.Qh5 Kg7 17.Ng4 f6 18.Qxh6+ Kf7
19.Qh7+ Ke8 20.Qg6+ Rf7 21.Ngxf6+ Bxf6 22.Nxf6+ Kf8 23.Nh7+ 1-0

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Major"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.29"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Marley, Andrew S G"]
[Black "Shakespeare, John"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1849"]
[BlackElo "1867"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.Bf4 d5 4.f3 Nd6 5.Nc3 e6 6.e4 c6 7.Qd2 Nd7
8.O-O-O Be7 9.Kb1 O-O 10.h4 Nc4 11.Bxc4 dxc4 12.Qf2 Nf6 13.g4
b5 14.h5 Qa5 15.g5 Ne8 16.e5 Nc7 17.Ne4 Nd5 18.Bd2 b4 19.g6 Rb8
20.gxh7+ Kh8 21.Ne2 Ba6 22.Rdg1 Nc3+ 23.N4xc3 bxc3 24.Bxc3 Bb4
25.Qg2 1-0

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Major"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.29"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Oyama, Akito"]
[Black "Tart, Peter K"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1554"]
[BlackElo "1924"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d5 3.exd5 Bd6 4.d4 e4 5.Ne5 Nf6 6.Bb5+ Nbd7 7.Bg5
O-O 8.Nxd7 Bxd7 9.Bxd7 Qxd7 10.Bxf6 gxf6 11.O-O Kh8 12.c4 Rg8
13.Kh1 Rxg2 14.Qh5 Rxh2+ 15.Qxh2 Bxh2 16.Kxh2 Qg4 17.Rg1 Qh4+
18.Kg2 Rg8+ 19.Kf1 Qh3+ 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Major"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.29"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Foster, Chantelle L"]
[Black "Dunlop, Neil J"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1701"]
[BlackElo "1875"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Be3 Qa5 5.Qd2 e5 6.Nf3 Be7 7.h3 Nbd7
8.Bd3 O-O 9.O-O b5 10.Nd5 Qd8 11.Nxe7+ Qxe7 12.a4 bxa4 13.Rxa4
Nb6 14.Raa1 Bd7 15.dxe5 dxe5 16.Ra5 Rfd8 17.Rxe5 Be6 18.Qe2 Qc7
19.Ra1 h6 20.Rea5 Nc8 21.Bd4 Qe7 22.c3 Nd7 23.e5 c5 24.Qe4 1-0

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Major"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.30"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Harley-Yeo, Gareth"]
[Black "Wilson, Matthew W"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1994"]
[BlackElo "1834"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.Ne5 e6 7.Nxc4
Bb4 8.Bg5 Nbd7 9.Qb3 a5 10.f3 Qc7 11.e4 Bg6 12.Be2 O-O 13.O-O
c5 14.Nb5 Qc6 15.Kh1 cxd4 16.Nxd4 Qc7 17.Nb5 Qb8 18.Rfd1 Nc5
19.Qe3 e5 20.Bxf6 gxf6 21.Nb6 Ra6 22.Nd5 Kg7 23.Nxb4 1-0

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.27"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Dupre, Paul D"]
[Black "Arkell, Keith C"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "2050"]
[BlackElo "2419"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Qa5 7.Bd2
Ne4 8.Qg4 Nxd2 9.Qxg7 Qxc3 10.Qxh8+ Ke7 11.Rd1 Ne4+ 12.Ke2 Qc2+
13.Kf3 Qxf2+ 14.Kg4 Qf5+ 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.27"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Crouch, Colin S"]
[Black "Homolka, Vincent"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "2343"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bg5 Bg7 4.Nbd2 d5 5.e3 O-O 6.Bd3 b6 7.Ne5
Bb7 8.f4 c5 9.c3 Ne4 10.Nxe4 dxe4 11.Bc4 Bd5 12.Bxe7 Qxe7 13.Bxd5
Nd7 14.Bxa8 Rxa8 15.Nxd7 Qxd7 16.O-O Rd8 17.Qb3 1-0

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.27"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Hagesaether, Arne"]
[Black "David, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "2143"]
[BlackElo "1970"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.h4 h6 7.Nf3
Nd7 8.h5 Bh7 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 e6 11.Bd2 Ngf6 12.O-O-O Be7 13.Kb1
b5 14.Ne4 Nxe4 15.Qxe4 Qb6 16.g4 Nf6 17.Qe2 Rd8 18.g5 Nd5 19.g6
O-O 20.Rdg1 1-0

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.27"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Craft, Isaac"]
[Black "Coleman, James"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1909"]
[BlackElo "2136"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.d4 exd4 6.Qxd4 Qxd4
7.Nxd4 Bd7 8.Nc3 O-O-O 9.Be3 Bb4 10.Nde2 Ne7 11.O-O-O Rhe8 12.a3
Bd6 13.Nd4 Ng6 14.f3 Ne5 15.Bf2 f6 16.Na4 c5 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.27"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Dixit, Kumar"]
[Black "Holland, James P"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1817"]
[BlackElo "2133"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 b5 2.c4 bxc4 3.e4 Bb7 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bxc4 Bb4 6.Nge2 Bxe4 7.Ng3
Bg6 8.h4 h6 9.h5 Bh7 10.Qg4 Bf8 11.d5 Nf6 12.Qf3 c6 13.dxe6 dxe6
14.O-O Be7 15.Bf4 O-O 16.Rfd1 Qb6 17.Rd2 Nd5 18.Nxd5 cxd5 19.Re1
Bb4 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engl"]
[Date "2011.05.28"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Coleman, James"]
[Black "Rausis, Igor"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "2136"]
[BlackElo "2496"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 g6 2.e4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.Nc3 a6 5.Be3 b5 6.Bd3 Bb7 7.a4 b4
8.Ne2 Nd7 9.Qd2 c5 10.c3 Ngf6 11.Ng3 h5 12.e5 bxc3 13.bxc3 cxd4
14.cxd4 dxe5 15.dxe5 Bxf3 16.exf6 Bxf6 17.O-O h4 18.Ne4 Bxa1
19.Rxa1 Ne5 20.Qc3 f6 21.Bc2 Qc8 22.Qb2 Qg4 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.28"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Maroroa, Sue"]
[Black "Shaw, Peter"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "2019"]
[BlackElo "2164"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.h4 h5 5.c4 e6 6.Nc3 Nd7 7.cxd5 cxd5
8.Nge2 Ne7 9.Ng3 Bg6 10.Bg5 Qb6 11.Nb5 Nc6 12.Bd3 Bb4+ 13.Kf1
Bxd3+ 14.Qxd3 a6 15.Nc3 Qxd4 16.Qxd4 Nxd4 17.a3 Bxc3 18.bxc3
Nc6 19.Rb1 b5 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.28"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Shamash, Michelle"]
[Black "Shepley, Julien M"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1750"]
[BlackElo "2027"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ng4 4.Nf3 Bc5 5.e3 Nc6 6.Be2 O-O 7.O-O
Re8 8.Nbd2 Ngxe5 9.Nxe5 Nxe5 10.Nf3 a5 11.Bd2 Ra6 12.Bc3 Nxf3+
13.Bxf3 Rh6 14.g3 b6 15.a3 Qe7 16.Rb1 Qe6 17.Bg2 Qxc4 18.Rc1
Qe6 19.Bxa5 Bxe3 20.fxe3 Qxe3+ 21.Kh1 Qxg3 22.h3 Rxh3+ 23.Kg1
Bb7 24.Rc2 Qh2+ 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.28"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Hagesaether, Arne"]
[Black "Hart, David P O"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "2143"]
[BlackElo "2018"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bb5 Nd4 6.O-O a6 7.Bc4
e6 8.a4 Ne7 9.d3 d5 10.Ba2 O-O 11.Kh1 b6 12.Nxd4 cxd4 13.Ne2
dxe4 14.dxe4 Bb7 15.Ng3 h5 16.f5 h4 17.Bg5 exf5 18.exf5 hxg3
19.fxg6 Bd5 20.Bxe7 Qxe7 21.Qh5 1-0

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.29"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Osborne, Marcus E"]
[Black "Eggleston, David J"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "2220"]
[BlackElo "2319"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.Nc3 O-O 7.d5 Bb4
8.O-O Na6 9.Ne5 Bxc3 10.bxc3 Nc5 11.Ba3 exd5 12.Bxc5 bxc5 13.cxd5
Qe8 14.Nc4 d6 15.Na5 Ba6 16.Re1 Qb5 17.Nc6 Rfe8 18.Rb1 Qc4 19.e4
Nxe4 20.Bf1 Qxa2 21.Rxe4 Rxe4 22.Ra1 Be2 23.Qe1 Qxd5 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.29"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Nelson, Omowale"]
[Black "Craft, Isaac"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "2072"]
[BlackElo "1909"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.g3 dxc4 5.a4 e6 6.Bg2 Be7 7.O-O O-O
8.Nbd2 b6 9.Nxc4 Bb7 10.Nfe5 Qc8 11.Bg5 Nbd7 12.Rc1 c5 13.Bh3
Rd8 14.b4 Nxe5 15.Nxe5 Rxd4 16.Qxd4 cxd4 17.Rxc8+ Rxc8 18.Rd1
Bxb4 19.Rxd4 Bc3 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.29"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Pleasants, Allan J"]
[Black "Andreev, Peter"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "2066"]
[BlackElo "1880"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.O-O Bg7 5.Re1 e5 6.d3 Nge7 7.Bg5
h6 8.Be3 d6 9.c3 O-O 10.Bxc6 bxc6 11.d4 cxd4 12.cxd4 Qc7 13.Qc2
f5 14.dxe5 dxe5 15.Nbd2 f4 16.Bc5 g5 17.Nc4 Rd8 18.Red1 Be6 19.Bd6
Rxd6 20.Rxd6 1-0

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.29"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Dixit, Kumar"]
[Black "Hickman, John E"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1817"]
[BlackElo "2007"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 Nd7 5.e4 Ngf6 6.Be2 e5 7.d5 a5
8.Bg5 h6 9.Bh4 Nc5 10.Nd2 g5 11.Bg3 h5 12.h3 Bd7 13.b3 Qb8 14.a3
Qa7 15.Rb1 Ke7 16.h4 g4 17.f4 exf4 18.Bxf4 Bh6 19.e5 Nfe4 20.Bxh6
Nd3+ 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.29"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Craft, Isaac"]
[Black "Friedland, Jon S"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1909"]
[BlackElo "2147"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4
Be7 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.O-O-O h6 10.Bh4 Nbd7 11.Bd3 g5 12.fxg5 Ne5 13.Qe2
Nfg4 14.Nf3 Nxf3 15.Qxf3 Ne5 16.Qh5 Qc5 17.Rhf1 Bd7 18.Nd5 exd5
19.gxh6 Qe3+ 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.29"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Grattage, Matthew"]
[Black "Baeza Escudero, Javier"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2010"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d3 Be7 5.O-O O-O 6.Nc3 d6 7.a3
Be6 8.Ba2 Bxa2 9.Rxa2 Nb8 10.b4 Nbd7 11.Be3 c6 12.Ne2 d5 13.exd5
cxd5 14.c4 b6 15.cxd5 Nxd5 16.Qb3 Nxe3 17.fxe3 Bf6 18.Ng3 g6
19.Ne4 Bg7 20.Nfg5 Qe7 21.Raf2 Bh6 22.Rxf7 Rxf7 23.Rxf7 1-0

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.30"]
[Round "6"]
[White "David, Ivan"]
[Black "Svensen, Tarjei"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "1970"]
[BlackElo "2102"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.c4 e6 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 d5 4.Nf3 Be7 5.O-O O-O 6.d4 c6 7.b3 Nbd7
8.Bb2 b6 9.Nbd2 Bb7 10.Qc2 Qc7 11.Rac1 Rac8 12.Ne5 dxc4 13.Qxc4
c5 14.Nef3 Bd5 15.Qd3 Qb7 16.Nh4 cxd4 17.Bxd4 Nc5 18.Qb1 Nfe4
19.Nxe4 Nxe4 20.Nf3 Nd2 21.Nxd2 Bxg2 22.Rfd1 Bh3 23.f3 Rfd8 24.Rxc8
Qxc8 25.Qb2 Rxd4 0-1

[Event "e2e4.org.uk Sunningdale Open"]
[Site "Sunningdale Park, Ascot, Engla"]
[Date "2011.05.30"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Tozer, Richard J D [BCQ]"]
[Black "Osborne, Marcus E"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "2297"]
[BlackElo "2220"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 e6 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 Nc6 5.Nf3 d6 6.Bg5 h6 7.Bd2
O-O 8.a3 Bxc3 9.Bxc3 Qe7 10.e4 e5 11.d5 Nb8 12.Be2 Nh5 13.g3
c6 14.Nxe5 Nf6 15.Nd3 Nxe4 16.Bd4 cxd5 17.cxd5 Nxg3 18.hxg3 Qe4
19.Rh4 Qxd5 20.Qc3 Qg5 21.Rh5 1-0

[Christopher Kreuzer]

[In fact, there were quite a few miniatures. Is it possible to get a list of all the games that were 20 or 25 moves or less?

As I can't be bothered to edit it into a list, here's the PGN of all decisive results in 25 moves or less. The Major first followed by the Open.

Thanks! I see that several people both won and lost in double-quick time (in terms of number of moves). It looks like there were 31 miniatures in total from I don't know how many games. Some of them were probably mismatches in terms of playing strength. Makes me wonder whether miniatures are more common at lower levels of chess than among GMs, which is what I think you'd expect (though it is always nice to see a GM get walloped in less than 20 moves - 25 moves is not so bad).

[Gareth Harley-Yeo]

nice to see two of my wins in the list above. i'd have to agree that lack of theory makes people make mistakes earlier on so you're likely to get more miniatures in the major.