Yorkshire Chess - British Championships Competition!

[Andrew Bak]

Apologies for the slight delay in publishing the Round 9 Results, the late publication of the draw (and results from Round didn't help us too much. Anyway, here are the results!

Round 9 Results

[David Gilbert]

Thanks Andrew. I've been on tender hooks all day!

[Andrew Bak]

Final roll-call for our Competition - you've got until 3pm on Friday to get your submissions in!

If you haven't tried it yet, give it a go! It's free to enter and you could still win a free entry to an e2e4 weekend event if you can get the best individual round score!

Submit your Predictions

[Nick Burrows]

What percentage of entrants have been submitting their entry between 2-3pm?

I've had to do mine the night before, but a computer evaluation of the games would give you a significant edge!

[PeterTurland]

Please teach me how to yawn.

[PeterFarr]

What percentage of entrants have been submitting their entry between 2-3pm?

I've had to do mine the night before, but a computer evaluation of the games would give you a significant edge!

Howell v Jones and Lalic v Arkell seem good candidates to not last for even half an hour, unless one of them happens to be feeling particularly feisty.

[Andrew Bak]

What percentage of entrants have been submitting their entry between 2-3pm?

I've had to do mine the night before, but a computer evaluation of the games would give you a significant edge!

Typically about 80% come before 2pm, there are always a few that leave it to between 2.55 and 3.00pm!

However late submissions don't seem to correlate too well with overall performance...

What percentage of entrants have been submitting their entry between 2-3pm?

I've had to do mine the night before, but a computer evaluation of the games would give you a significant edge!

Howell v Jones and Lalic v Arkell seem good candidates to not last for even half an hour, unless one of them happens to be feeling particularly feisty.

I agree with that, I'm sure Jones is more concentrated on the World Cup now than the British Championships.

[PeterFarr]

sorry double post.

[PeterFarr]

I agree with that, I'm sure Jones is more concentrated on the World Cup now than the British Championships.

Yup - certainly not about to blame them if that's what happens. Not sure where any last round fireworks might come from; Zhou-Gormally perhaps.

Actually, I've just remembered that in the Tour de France, there is a prize for the most aggressive rider each day - that might be a good chess innovation.

Really like your instant daily round reports btw, great effort.

[Andrew Bak]

I agree with that, I'm sure Jones is more concentrated on the World Cup now than the British Championships.

Yup - certainly not about to blame them if that's what happens. Not sure where any last round fireworks might come from; Zhou-Gormally perhaps.

Actually, I've just remembered that in the Tour de France, there is a prize for the most aggressive rider each day - that might be a good chess innovation.

Really like your instant daily round reports btw, great effort.

There is a best game prize on offer for each round - a shame this isn't publicised more on the official website

I'm glad you enjoy the reports!

[Andrew Bak]

Round 10 Results

Remember you have until 3pm to get your final round entries in!

[Andrew Bak]

You've now got less than an hour to get your final round predictions in - new entrants could still win free entry to an e2e4 event!

3pm is the deadline!

Submit your predictions

[Andrew Bak]

The Prediction Competition is now complete and the Prize Winners can be revealed:

Round 11 Results

Thanks to everyone that participated and thanks to Chess & Bridge and e2e4 Chess for kindly supplying the prizes – we hope you enjoyed the Competition!

[Angus French]

Thanks to Andrew and Yorkshirechess.org for running the competition - it was fun and added to the enjoyment of following the championship. Thanks, also, in this respect, to Carl, Dave Clayton and Matthew Carr for broadcasting the games.

[Rob Thompson]

Some very good results for chess parents in that - Andrew Adair winning week 2 and my mother coming 2nd overall.