British
Chess Championships Day 6
Day 6 (30/07/2024) of the
2024 British Championships in Hull saw the 4th rounds of the British
Championship proper and the Major Open, the 2nd rounds of the Over
50 and the Over 65, the 3rd round of the Junior championships,
and the 2nd round of the AM/PM week-long congress. Last and
probably least, there was scheduled to be held in the evening a Blitz
event with Open and Under-1600 sections.
A surprising number
of games were lost due to very elementary blunders, losing a piece for no
reason whatsoever, though time pressure might explain some.
In the British
Championship, 3 players had 3 out of 3 going into round 4: David Howell,
Gawain Jones, Shreyas Royal and Matthew Wadsworth. Michael Adams took a
15-move draw against Yichen Han, making is somewhat improbable that he’ll
catch up with the leaders though maybe he was predicting two draws on the
boards above him.
Yorkshire players’
pairings/results were as follows:
(To
play through a game on screen, click on “play” and return to this screen by
using the browser’s “back” function.)
Bd
|
|
Name
|
Pts
|
Result
|
Pts
|
Name
|
|
|
2
|
GM
|
Gawain C B Jones
|
3
|
1-0
|
3
|
Matthew J Wadsworth
|
IM
|
play
|
18
|
CM
|
Ethan Pang
|
1½
|
0-1
|
1½
|
Richard J D
Palliser
|
IM
|
play
|
20
|
NM
|
Callum D Brewer
|
1½
|
0-1
|
1½
|
Andrew J Ledger
|
IM
|
play
|
32
|
WFM
|
Kamila Hryshchenko
|
1
|
1-0
|
1
|
Jan Murawski
|
CM
|
play
|
37
|
|
Jake M Sanger
|
1
|
0-1
|
½
|
Maksym Larchikov
|
|
play
|
39
|
CM
|
Jonathan W Arnott
|
½
|
½-½
|
½
|
Neil H Bradbury
|
IM
|
play
|
In the Major Open,
only 1 Yorkshire player entered round 4 with 3 out of 3, Tom Wills, but
enigmatically he was excluded from the pairings for round 4, perhaps because
he was ill. By the time the round 5 pairings were posted, he had been
credited with a ½-point bye in round 4. The remaining Yorkshire players’
pairings/results were as follows:
Bd
|
Name
|
Pts
|
Result
|
Pts
|
Name
|
|
8
|
David L Roberts
|
2½
|
½-½
|
2½
|
Peter Shaw
|
|
10
|
Adam Sefton
|
2½
|
0-1
|
2½
|
Mate Ther
|
|
11
|
Robin Angst
|
2
|
0-1
|
2
|
Kristian C Usifoh
|
|
14
|
Joe Varley
|
2
|
0-1
|
2
|
Matthew J Harborne
|
|
18
|
Paul Brencher
|
2
|
0-1
|
2
|
Livio Cancedda‑Dupuis
|
|
24
|
Srivathsan
Sasikumar
|
1½
|
0-1
|
1½
|
Jonathan P Nelson
|
play
|
30
|
Zain Patel
|
1½
|
½-½
|
1½
|
Xiaofan Li
|
|
34
|
Aaron Rich
|
1½
|
0-1
|
1½
|
Adam Bedi
|
|
40
|
David W Stephenson
|
1
|
½-½
|
1
|
Rory R Mclean
|
play
|
43
|
Paul May
|
1
|
1-0
|
1
|
Naavya Parikh
|
|
50
|
Siddhartha Shankar Srivastava
|
½
|
0-1
|
½
|
Jack Howorth
|
|
51
|
M John Cawston
|
½
|
1-0
|
½
|
Damien Sobolevski
|
|
In the Over 50
and Over 65, Yorkshire participants’ pairings/results in round 2 were
as follows:
Over
50
|
|
Bd
|
|
Name
|
Pts
|
Result
|
Pts
|
Name
|
|
|
1
|
|
Andrei Ciuravin
|
1
|
0-1
|
1
|
Keith C Arkell
|
GM
|
|
5
|
|
Peter Hasson
|
1
|
0-1
|
1
|
M Paul Townsend
|
|
play
|
7
|
FM
|
Richard J McMichael
|
½
|
0-1
|
½
|
Ben S Rich
|
|
|
9
|
|
Douglas
Vleeshhouwer
|
½
|
0-1
|
½
|
Michael Dougherty
|
FM
|
|
10
|
|
Neil R Farrell
|
½
|
1-0
|
½
|
Leo A Keely
|
|
|
11
|
|
David Henderson
|
½
|
½-½
|
½
|
Simon Watson
|
|
|
15
|
|
Michael R Handley
|
½
|
1-0
|
½
|
Peter Jaszkiwskyj
|
|
play
|
20
|
|
Diane Dickson
|
0
|
0-1
|
0
|
Andrew Grillage
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Over
65
|
|
Bd
|
|
Name
|
Pts
|
Result
|
Pts
|
Name
|
|
|
3
|
|
David Kilgour
|
1
|
1-0
|
1
|
Steve R Hodge
|
|
|
8
|
|
Stellio Jerome
|
1
|
0-1
|
1
|
Paul A Hutchinson
|
|
play
|
9
|
|
John M Guilfoyle
|
1
|
½-½
|
1
|
Mark I Collinson
|
|
|
12
|
|
Jim E Vickery
|
½
|
1-0
|
½
|
Kenneth I Norman
|
CM
|
|
18
|
|
John N Sugden
|
½
|
1-0
|
½
|
Colin S Procter
|
|
|
19
|
|
Jim Burnett
|
0
|
1-0
|
½
|
Malcolm J Winter
|
|
play
|
20
|
|
Nigel W Dennis
|
0
|
0-1
|
0
|
Chris C W Shephard
|
|
play
|
27
|
|
Roger D De Coverly
|
0
|
0-1
|
0
|
Derek A Sheppard
|
|
|
|