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04/08/2024

British Chess Championships Day 11

 

Day 11 (04/08/2024) of the 2024 British Championships in Hull saw the final (9th) rounds of the British Championship proper and the Major Open, the final (7th) rounds of the Over 50 and the Over 65, and then a play-off for the British Championship.  A table of final-round results appears here, and a table of final scores and placings appears here.

 

In the British Championship, two players were in the joint lead going into round 9 on 6½ out of 8: David Howell and Gawain Jones.  In sole 3rd place with 6 out of 8 was Matthew Wadsworth.  There followed ten players on 5½ including York’s Richard Palliser, all striving for a multiple share of second place (if there was a win on top board, otherwise a multiple share of third place) though possibly finishing as low as twelfth place depending on the outcome of boards 2 to 7.

 

Richard Palliser agreed a draw after 16 moves, so wasn’t striving for glory!

 

David Howell and Gawain Jones tied for first place on 7 out of 9 and proceeded to a play-off starting at 4.30 p.m. and consisting of 2 rapidplay games (20 minutes per game + 10-second increments), to be followed if necessary by 2 blitz games, to be followed if necessary by an “Armageddon” game.  Things did not fire up at the appointed time on the “live” boards visible on the internet (either on Lichess or LiveChessCloud).  141 people were watching Lichess about 10 minutes after the advertised start (16.30}.  Then, the two rapidplay boards appeared on Lichess at about 16.45, though game 2 soon disappeared leaving game 1 without any actual moves being made, then about 16.50 the moves started, with just over 200 people watching at that stage.  (Well done somebody in the background!)    Play-off results were:

 

Rapidplay game 1

David W L Howell

1-0

Gawain C B Jones

play

Rapidplay game 2

Gawain C B Jones

1-0

David W L Howell

play

Blitz game 1

David W L Howell

½‑½

Gawain C B Jones

play

Blitz game 2

Gawain C B Jones

1-0

David W L Howell

play

 

Thus Gawain Jones won the British Championship which he had previously won in 2012 and 2017.

 

In the Major Open, the sole lead was still held by Lorenzo Fava now on 7½ out of 8.  Since by now he was 1½ points ahead of the rest of the field he had in fact already won the Major Open!  There followed 6 players on 6, including Harrogate’s Mate Ther, all with a chance of second place or second equal if they won.

 

In the Over 50, going into the final round Keith Arkell was in the lead on 5½ out of 6, followed by Stephen Dishman on 5, and then followed by nine on 4 including York’s Paul Townsend and Hull’s Andrei Ciuravin all nine with a chance of at least a share in second or third place if they won.

 

In the Over 65, in the lead going into round 7 were Craig Pritchett and Andrew Smith on 5 out of 6, followed by three players on 4½ out of 6 including Sheffield’s Chris Shephard.  There followed ten players on 4 including Sheffield/Bawtry’s Jim Burnett and Scarborough’s Paul Hutchinson.

 

Yorkshire players’ pairings (with results and games to follow) 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.)

 

British Championship

Bd

 

Name

Pts

Result

Pts

Name

 

 

1

GM

Gawain C B Jones

½-½

David W L Howell

GM

play

2

IM

Richard J D Palliser

½-½

6

Matthew J Wadsworth

IM

 

14

IM

Andrew J Ledger

1-0

Stanley Badacsonyi

CM

play

26

WIM

Trisha Kanyamarala

4

1-0

Kamila Hryshchenko

WFM

 

32

 

Maksym Larchikov

3

1-0

3

Ruqayyah Rida

WCM

play

39

 

Oleg Verbytski

½-½

2

Jonathan W Arnott

CM

play

Major Open

Bd

 

Name

Pts

Result

Pts

Name

 

 

4

FM

Robert S Eames

½-½

6

Mate Ther

 

play

9

ACM

George Zhao

1-0

Kristian C Usifoh

 

 

15

 

Roman Kovalskyi

5

1-0

5

Thomas Wills

 

 

18

 

Peter Shaw

0-1

Zac Welling

 

 

21

 

Matthew Dishman

1-0

David W Stephenson

 

 

23

 

Aaron Rich

0-1

Adam Sefton

 

 

24

 

Paul Brencher

1-0

Jonathan Rubeck

 

play

27

 

Srivathsan  Sasikumar

4

½-½

4

Davi Diniz Afonso

 

28

 

Christopher D Lewis

4

1-0

4

Paul May

 

 

34

 

Adam Bedi

1-0

4

Henry Neenan

 

play

35

FM

Richard Britton

1-0

M John Cawston

 

 

36

 

Xiaofan Li

?

Pengxiao Zhu

 

 

38

 

Federico Guarnieri

1-0

Jack Howorth

 

 

52

FM

Jonathan P Nelson

4

 

 

not paired

 

 

58

 

Joe Varley

3

 

 

not paired

 

 

Over 50

Bd

 

Name

Pts

Result

Pts

Name

 

 

4

 

M Paul Townsend

4

½-½

4

Neil R Farrell

 

 

5

NM

Philip J Crocker

4

½-½

4

Andrei Ciuravin

 

 

12

 

Leo A Keely

½-½

David Henderson

 

play

13

 

Tim M Turner

0-1

Michael R Handley

 

play

16

 

Peter Jaszkiwskyj

0-1

Douglas Vleeshhouwer

 

play

18

 

Simon Watson

2

1-0

2

Chris Lynch

 

play

22

 

Ben S Rich

 

 

not paired

 

 

23

 

Diane Dickson

0

 

 

not paired

 

 

Over 65

Bd

 

Name

Pts

Result

Pts

Name

 

 

3

 

David Kilgour

4

1-0

Chris CW Shephard

 

 

5

FM

Oliver A Jackson

4

0-1

4

Paul A Hutchinson

 

play

6

FM

Philip M Giulian

4

½-½

4

Jim Burnett

 

 

10

 

Mark I Collinson

½-½

Steve R Hodge

 

 

18

 

Martin J Clancy

½-½

Jim E Vickery

 

 

22

 

Derek A Sheppard

2

1-0

David A Tidmarsh

 

 

32

 

Colin S Procter

1

 

 

not paired

 

 

 

Final scores and placings:

 

British Championship

Name

Pts

Place

Gawain C B Jones

7

1

Richard J D Palliser

6

6-15

Andrew J Ledger

16-22

Maksym Larchikov

4

52-62

Kamila Hryshchenko

63-67

Jonathan W Arnott

78-84

 

Major Open

Name

Pts

Place

Mate Ther

2-9

Kristian C Usifoh

22-33

Paul Brencher

22-33

Peter Shaw

49-65

Adam Bedi

49-65

Srivathsan Sasikumar

49-65

David W Stephenson

49-65

Aaron Rich

49-65

Jonathan P Nelson

4

66-77

Paul May

4

66-77

Jack Howorth

78-94

Xiaofan Li

78-94

M John Cawston

78-94

Joe Varley

3

95-106

 

 

 

Over 60

Name

Pts

Place

M Paul Townsend

4-10

Andrei Ciuravin

4-10

Michael R Handley

17-24

Douglas Vleeshhouwer

17-24

Leo A Keely

3

25-30

Simon Watson

3

25-30

Ben S Rich

31-38

Diane Dickson

0

42

 

 

 

Over 65

Name

Pts

Place

Paul A Hutchinson

5

3-7

Chris CW Shephard

8-13

Jim Burnett

8-13

Steve R Hodge

4

14-23

Mark I Collinson

4

14-23

Jim E Vickery

3

34-40

Derek A Sheppard

3

34-40

Colin S Procter

1

55