The standard-rate championships duly got started around 14.30 p.m. on day 3 (2nd August) with round 1 of the British Championship proper and the Major Open.

Of the 100 players listed as participating in the main Championship event, of whom one player may be of the nature of a “filler” playing in rounds where there would otherwise be an odd number, there were 9 players identifiably connected to the Northern Counties either by club or residence. In the following table, those Northern players are denoted by “N”. The list shows the top 11 players in the full list of 100 entrants when ranked by descending order of their ratings being used in the tournament, followed by the remaining 6 Northern players similarly ranked. Players round-1 results are in the rightmost collum.

Rank		Name		Club/Residence	Rd.1
1	GM	Nikita Vitiugov			1
2	GM	Michael Adams			1
3	GM	Gawain Maroroa Jones	N	Sheffield-resident	1
4	GM	Stuart C Conquest			1
5	GM	Ameet K Ghasi			1
6	GM	Daniel H Fernandez			1
7	GM	Shreyas Royal			1
8	IM	Brandon Gi Clarke			1
9	IM	Matthew J Wadsworth			½
10	IM	Svyatoslav Bazakutsa	N	Liverpool (b. 2008, Ukraine)	½
11	GM	Stephen J Gordon	N	Manchester 3Cs	1
29	IM	David J Eggleston	N	Durham City	1
33	IM	Andrew J Ledger	N	Woodseats (Sheffield)	1
54	CM	Edward Jackson	N	Manchester 3Cs	0
71		Owen Crawford	N	Liverpool	0
76		Sheng Liang Bernard Chan	N	Leeds University	0
99		Marek Korsinskij	N	Liverpool	0

The corresponding player list for the 138 Major Open players, with the top 12 participants followed by the remainder of the 34 Northern players, is as follows. Players round-1 results are in the rightmost collum. Sheffield’s Jonathan Arnott tried to squeeze a win out of a drawn ending, and so converted a draw to a loss. Click here to play through the game Arnott, Jonathan W 0-1 Ding, Yiwen on screen.

No.		Name		Club/Residence	Rd.1
1		Adam A Taylor			1
2		Fahim Nasiri			1
3		Junhao Xian			1
4	FM	Tim P Wall	N	Forest Hall, Newcastle-u-Tyne	1
5		Sooraj Menothuparambil Raju			1
6		Arjun Kolani			1
7	FM	Jonathan P Nelson	N	Sheffield Nomads	1
8		Liam D Varnam			½
9		Koichi B Nicholas			1
10		Remy Rushbrooke			1
11		Ali Reza Jaunooby	N	Eccles Community	1
12	CM	Jonathan W Arnott	N	SASCA (Sheffield)	0
15		Alan Peart	N	Harrogate	1
20		John P Williams	N	Atticus (Liverpool)	0
21		Tetsuaki Sanada	N	Chorlton-cum-Hardy	½
25		Toby Quaite	N	Leeds Junior Chess Club	1
29		Dennis Owen	N	Urmston	½
31		Sai Vaddhireddy	N	Ashton	1
38		Patrick Joseph	N	Leeds University	1
42		Andrew Savage	N	Atticus (Liverpool)	1
45		Michael McDonagh	N	Chester	½
47		Chris Izod	N	Jesmond	½
48		Aaron Rich	N	York	1
52		Damian M McCarthy	N	Culcheth	1
57		Leo A Keely	N	Huddersfield	0
58		Mahin Rughani	N	Swinton & Worsley Community	1
59		Alfie Melia	N	Atticus (Liverpool)	1
67		Adam Bedi	N	Eagle and Child (York)	0
73		Joel Bartlett	N	Liverpool	0
85		Joshua Blinkhorn	N	Hebden Bridge	½
87		Laurence Coe	N	Stockport	½
89		Sithun De Silva	N	Ashton	1
102		Albert Eldridge	N	Brighton & Hove	0
103		Dylan Mize	N	Liverpool	0
106		Seth Woozeer	N	SASCA (Sheffield)	½
108		Cameron Storey	N	Brighton & Hove	0
117		Charlie Wainwright	N	Ilkely Chess Centre	0
120		Ved Sudeep Boganadham	N	Ashton	1
121		Sanjoy K Banerjee	N	Atticus (Liverpool)	0
128		Nikolas Korsinskij	N	Liverpool	1
137		Samidh Saxena	N	Liverpool	1
138		Aytek Koyun	N	Liverpool	1