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25/07/2023 British Championships 2023, Day 6
Day 6: Tuesday 25th July
Day 6 saw the start of the British Junior Championships at Under-16, Under-14, Under-12, Under-10 and Under-8 levels. Maksym Larchikov (Ukraine/Hull) starts as highest-ranked in the Under-14s, while Maksym Kryshtafor (Ukraine/Hull), Pitel Benedikt (Hull) and Srivathsan Sasikumar (Leeds Juniors) start as 2nd, 3rd and 4th highest ranked in the Under-10s. Yorkshire is not represented, seemingly, in the Under-12s and Under-8s.
Yorkshire players’ round-4 results in the 9-round British Championship proper were as in the rolling result table below. IM Andrew Ledger had a difficult time in and after the opening against a 16-year-old FM who outrated him! Fortunately, Andrew knows when and how to grovel and made a comeback which left him a nominal pawn up, with his opponent having nothing better than acquiescing to a draw. Eric Gardiner was playing Yorkshire-born Chris Beaumont (“Chalky” Beaumont) who 40 years or more ago played for Barnsley. Eric went two pawns down, and then embarrassingly managed to trap a knight so that he either lost the knight - or got mated! Bernard Chan was a pawn up in a R + opposite-coloured bishop ending. After some dithering on both sides, appropriate redeployment of his rook via the g-file brought hope a win. Peter Shaw was up against current NCCU Champion Virgil Szekely and ended up having to hold back his opponent’s passed pawn two squares from queening whilst guarding his own pawns. The uneasy impasse was agreed a draw.
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Yorkshire players’ round-2 results in the 7-round Over 50 and Over 65 Championships were as in the rolling result table below.
In the 9-round Major Open the two Yorkshire participants recorded the following results in round 4:
Meanwhile, the second round of the 6-round AM/PM week-long events were played with Yorkshire players scoring as below.
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