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21/07/2019 2019 British Championships - Preview
The 2019 British Chess Championships take place from the Friday 26th July to the Sunday 4th August 2019, at the Riviera International Centre, Torquay, with actual play, in some events at least, starting on Saturday 27th.
Admittance to the British Championship proper was changed to eliminate the “tail” of relatively weak entrants qualifying from congresses &c, and Championship entrants number 55 at the time of writing, as compared with 64 last year. Sponsorship had evidently been lost, as none is advertised. The event aims to be self-financing, so lack of sponsorship means higher entry fees, and/or lower prizes, or lower (unadvertised) appearance fees &c to titled players. One notable non-entrant is GM Gawain Jones.
The cut-off date for entries not deemed “late” was about a month earlier this year, which people had not fully realised, meaning some unwary people entering at their accustomed time found they were hit by a late fee. An ECF re-think led to the date being adjusted back to what had previously been, and late fees already paid being refunded.
35 Yorkshire players (3 resident outside the county) have entered (plus any missed in the count), none juniors, some entering more than one event, so making 47 event-entries in all (see below). The most realistic hopes for a Yorkshire title-win lie in the Senior Championships (Paul Townsend in the Over-50 and Chris Shephard in the Over-65). In the other sections, the ubiquitous Robert Clegg could do well in the Soanes weekend event. In the Under 1900, Tim Hilton (Rochdale-Calderdale) and Dave Patrick should be in with a good chance, being 2rd and 3rd in the ranking order. A somewhat longer shot might be Peter Shaw in the Major Open. It is hoped to track these players’ fortunes, day to day, on a separate results page.
In so far as is possible, this website will follow fortunes of Yorkshire players throughout the event. The ECF Championship website is at www.britishchesschampionships.co.uk, where there are links to planned pages for “Results & Pairings”, “Live Games”. “Commentary” and “PGN / Replay”. Yorkshire Entrants (* denotes Yorkshire League players resident out-of-county)
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