BRITISH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS - THE GAMES

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Round 3 pairings now up: http://www.britishchess2011.com/events_ ... p_2011.htm

Three all-GM clashes already (Conquest-Jones; Adams-Gormally; Summerscale-Short) - anyone care to predict the results there? Two non-titled players still on 100% (Sreeves and Atako). Two GMs only on 1/2 (Hebden, Williams) and one on 0.5/2 (N. Pert).

[Adam Raoof]

Excellent result by Clement Sreeves to beat Nick Pert. I assume 21... Kb8 is a mistake, allowing White's queen to penetrate? Does anyone know anything about this, apparently excellent, young player?

He was close to taking a podium spot at the recent Scottish Championships!

http://www.sncl.org.uk/scottish2010/cha ... index.html

and before that did well at the Big Slick IM event

http://www.gingergm.com/2011/06/20/2nd- ... orm-group/

[Matthew Turner]

Clement is a very hard working and knowledgable player and I am surprised that he is not much higher rated. I suspect a combination of time trouble and nerves gets him at crucial moments. If he can get over this, and recent evidence suggests he can, then he is a very dangerous opponent.

[Ian Jamieson]

Or even http://www.sncl.org.uk/scotchamps2011/C ... index.html

[Gavin Strachan]

Susan Lalic is playing well and an interesting cute tactic she played v Hebden 24. BxH7+ if King takes then Rook takes the black bishop which wins a pawn and Hebden bailed out with kf8. I was wondering if the taking the Bishop with the king would work followed by the pawn on C2 with the rook but it looks dodge as the black f pawns drop, the black king looks somewhat exposed and the black centre pawns I think struggle to compensate. Nice little winning tactic by Susan.

[Tryfon Gavriel]

I video annotated a couple of the games so far:

A system against the Torre Attack from Round 2

IM Graham Buckley vs GM David Howell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ62syIZwEY

Major upset in Round 1

WGM Susan Lalic vs GM Simon Williams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GivfGnl_l1w

Best wishes
Tryfon

[andrew martin]

Game of the Day for Rd 2 is now up :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3FV06DV4ig

I hope you enjoy it

[Tryfon Gavriel]

Hi Andrew

May I just say I really enjoyed the livestream yesterday. ( http://www.livestream.com/leylandchess at 2.15 London time onwards ) It was so much better Audio quality than last year. I recommended it on my Facebook pages, and at one point there were like 200 viewers on your livestream. I don't know what it was the day before, but I thought that was quite impressive.

I hope you don't mind but I referenced the livestream in one of my videos just done this morning. You and Ravi did really addictive commentary to follow.

BTW Chessgames.com have a British Champ 2011 page, and I mentioned your video there earlier for the Game of the Day Round 1 :

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl ... osstable=1

Thanks

Best wishes
Tryfon

[David Gilbert]

Andrew/Tryfon

Many thanks. Very instructive. Easy to digest with tea and toast. Keep them coming.

[Justin Hadi]

Rather boringly I can't see past Adams to win the title outright. He's just a class or a couple of classes above most of the field.
Short I can see dropping a game one to one of the up and coming GMs or even Hawkins.

[Jon D'Souza-Eva]

The top seed of a tournament with this many entries fails more often than than not to win it. Adams was in brilliant form last year, but this year I think someone else will win the title.

[Justin Hadi]

I would have a little bet with you but I'm broke

[Carl Hibbard]

My cash is still with Jones to be honest

[LozCooper]

My cash is still with Jones to be honest

Any word on live games today?

[James Coleman]

You can watch them at http://www.2seeitlive.com/british/briti ... 3a/tfd.htm

I had to go to the 2seeitlive site itself and access them from there