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27/07/2023

British Championships 2023, Day 8

Championship website: https://www.britishchesschampionships.co.uk/

Day 8: Thursday 27th July

Yorkshire players’ round-6 results in the 9-round British Championship proper were as in the rolling result table below.

Live coverage on Lichess did not fire up at the start, and there had been some outage on the previous day.  Diverting to Chess24 found things were running there.

Peter Shaw was recorded on the Chess24 board display as having lost with white to opponent Jack Rudd, which was around move 17 or before in an about equal position, yet they were still making moves! The “0” and “1” disappeared in time.  However, Peter’s 41st move, though reasonable in itself, had the drawback of allowing forced mat in 4.  So, the prophecy of Chess24 proved correct!

Andrew Ledger’s game against Richard Pert was a non-too exciting 24-move draw.

Bernard Chan went a pawn down but his opponent, with Q+R+N+3P (one isolated outside passed pawn) versus Q+R+B+2P, decided it was not feasible to attempt to win.

Eric Gardiner also went a pawn down, but after things reduced to K+Q plus pawns each, Eric’s opponent proved less amenable to agreeing a draw, and went on to win.

Section	Player	Rd.1	Rd.2	Rd.3	Rd.4	Rd.5	Rd.6	Total to Date
British Championship	IM Andrew Ledger (Sheffield)	1 play	0 play	1 play	½ play	1 play	½	4
	Peter Shaw (Wakefield)	½ play	0 play	½ play	½ play	1 play	0 play	2½
	Sheng Liang Bernard Chan (Leeds University)	0	0	½ play	1 play	½ play	½ play	2½
	Eric Gardiner (Hull)	0	1‑bye	½ play	0	0	0 play	1½

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Day 8 saw round 4 of the British Junior Championships at Under-16, Under-14, Under-12, Under-10 and Under-8 levels.

Section	Player	Rd.1	Rd.2	Rd.3	Rd.4	Total to Date
Under 16 (29 entrants)	Aaron Rich (York)	0	0	1	1	2
	Toby Quaite (Leeds)	0	0	1‑bye	0	1
Under 14 (45 entrants)	Maksym Larchikov (Hull)	1	1	1	½	3½
Under 10 (47 entrants)	Maksym Kryshtafor (York)	1	1	½	1	3½
	Benedikt Pitel (Hull)	1‑def	½	1	½	3
	Srivathsan Sasikumar (Alwoodley)	1	1	1	0	3
	Dominik Pitel (Hull)	1	0	0	1	2

Yorkshire players’ round-4 results in the 7-round Over 50 and Over 65 Championships were as in the rolling result table below.

Michael Handley was credited with “nil points” and no opponent, so had perhaps withdrawn.

Section	Player	Rd.1	Rd.2	Rd.3	Rd.4	Total to Date
Over 50	M Paul Townsend (York)	1	0	0	1	2
	Michael R Handley (Sheffield Nomads)	0	1	1	?	2
	Simon Watson (Bradford)	½	1	½	0	2
Over 65	Paul A Hutchinson (Scarborough)	1	½	½	1	3
	Mike R Stokes (Harrogate)	1	0	1	½	2½
	Mark I Collinson (Hull)	0	1	0	1-def	2

In the 9-round Major Open the two Yorkshire participants recorded the following results in round 6:

Section	Player	Rd.1	Rd.2	Rd.3	Rd.4	Rd.5	Rd.6	Total to Date
Major Open	Jonathan P Nelson (Sheffield)	½	½	½	1	1	½	4
	Adam Bedi (York)	½‑bye	½	0	1	1	0	3

Meanwhile, the 4th round of the 6-round AM/PM week-long events were played with Yorkshire players scoring as below.

Section	Player	Rd.1	Rd.2	Rd.3	Rd.4	Total to Date
Open - AM	Mark I Collinson (Hull)	1-def	0	½	½	2
	Steve R Hodge (Hull)	0	1	½-bye	0	1½
	Adam Bedi (York)	0	1	0	1	2
Under 2050 - PM	Steve R Hodge (Hull)	1	0	½-bye	1	2½
	Robert Clegg (Huddersfield)	0	0	0	1-bye	1
Under 1900 - AM	Simon Watson (Bradford)	½	½	½	1	2½
	Robert Clegg (Huddersfield)	1	0	½	1	2½
	Robert Dean (Saltaire)	½‑bye	½	1	1	3
	Gordon Farrar (Belgrave)	½	1	0	0	1½
	Andrew Zigmond (Harrogate)	½	0	0	1-def	1½
Under 1750 - PM	Andrew Zigmond (Harrogate)	0	½	1	½	2
Under 1600 - AM	David C Dunne (Doncaster Nomads)	0	½	1	1	2½
Under 1450 - PM	David C Dunne (Doncaster Nomads)	1	0	1	1-def	3

In the Junior Blitz played in the evening, Maksym Kryshtafor (York) finished 2nd with 7½ out of 9, behind Finn Schell of Southbourne, Dorset, who scored an impressive 9 out of 9, which included beating Maksym in round 5.  Toby Quaite (Leeds) finished 32nd-40th= (out of 72 players) on 4½ points.