London Chess Classic

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 4:

Ghasi, Ameet K Gormally, Daniel W 1-0
Haria, Ravi Adams, Michael ½-½
Harvey, Marcus R Trent, Lawrence 1-0
Horton, Andrew P Jones, Gawain C B 0-1
Speelman, Jon S McShane, Luke J ½-½

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 5:

Adams, Michael Speelman, Jon S 0-1
Gormally, Daniel W Haria, Ravi 1-0
Jones, Gawain C B Ghasi, Ameet K 0-1
McShane, Luke J Harvey, Marcus R 1-0
Trent, Lawrence Horton, Andrew P 1-0

McShane 4.5/5
Jones 4
Ghasi, Harvey, Speelman, Trent 3
Adams 2.5
Gormally 1.5
Haria 0.5
Horton 0

[Keith Arkell]

Out of curiosity how many of the 10 players in the English Rapidplay are wearing masks?

Technically it's not the English Rapidplay Championship, it's an invitation event which the organiser has decided to call; the 'English Rapidplay'.

[NickFaulks]

Technically it's not the English Rapidplay Championship, it's an invitation event which the organiser has decided to call; the 'English Rapidplay'.

It looks clear enough from the ECF website that this is an official ECF event.

[John Upham]

Out of curiosity how many of the 10 players in the English Rapidplay are wearing masks?

Three.

[NickFaulks]

Three.

Are they doing well? Data on whether masks improve your chess would be of interest.

[Matt Bridgeman]

Out of curiosity how many of the 10 players in the English Rapidplay are wearing masks?

Three.

What’s the other seven’s exemption or legitimate excuse I wonder?

[Richard Bates]

Out of curiosity how many of the 10 players in the English Rapidplay are wearing masks?

Three.

What’s the other seven’s exemption or legitimate excuse I wonder?

That they aren’t required to? Even if you believe that the new “plan B” rules require it (I’m not sure they do) plan B isn’t (yet) the law.

[Matt Bridgeman]

Three.

What’s the other seven’s exemption or legitimate excuse I wonder?

That they aren’t required to? Even if you believe that the new “plan B” rules require it (I’m not sure they do) plan B isn’t (yet) the law.

I don’t think there’s much argument that the convention centre isn’t one of the types of venues open to the public. I don’t think the rule change could be described as compulsory if when it passes through parliament this week it wouldn’t validate any enforcement actions taken from last Friday onwards. And there will have been enforcement actions taken, if perhaps not in the volume of the number of London transport non-mask fines.

I suspect in a few months time there might well have been a few chess events where the whole room more or less caught Omicron, so bending the rules not to wear a mask might then be considered a bit daft.

[John Upham]

Three.

Are they doing well? Data on whether masks improve your chess would be of interest.

You would be welcome to visit and ask them yourself.

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 6 on 2021/12/12 at 1200
Bo. No. Rtg Name Result Name Rtg No.
1 10 2539 IM Ghasi Ameet K ½ - ½ IM Haria Ravi 2337 8
2 9 2523 GM Speelman Jon S ½ - ½ GM Gormally Daniel W 2534 7
3 1 2443 FM Harvey Marcus R ½ - ½ GM Adams Michael 2670 6
4 2 2298 IM Horton Andrew P 1 - 0 GM Mcshane Luke J 2698 5
5 3 2604 GM Jones Gawain C B 1 - 0 IM Trent Lawrence 2440 4

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 7 on 2021/12/12 at 1330
Bo. No. Rtg Name Result Name Rtg No.
1 4 2440 IM Trent Lawrence 0 - 1 IM Ghasi Ameet K 2539 10
2 5 2698 GM Mcshane Luke J ½ - ½ GM Jones Gawain C B 2604 3
3 6 2670 GM Adams Michael 1 - 0 IM Horton Andrew P 2298 2
4 7 2534 GM Gormally Daniel W 0 - 1 FM Harvey Marcus R 2443 1
5 8 2337 IM Haria Ravi ½ - ½ GM Speelman Jon S 2523 9

Jones 5.5/7, McShane 5, Ghasi & Harvey 4.5, Adams 4 & Speelman 4, Trent 3, Gormally 2, Haria 1.5, Horton 1.

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 8 on 2021/12/12 at 1500
Bo. No. Rtg Name Result Name Rtg No.
1 10 2539 IM Ghasi Ameet K ½ - ½ GM Speelman Jon S 2523 9
2 1 2443 FM Harvey Marcus R 0 - 1 IM Haria Ravi 2337 8
3 2 2298 IM Horton Andrew P ½ - ½ GM Gormally Daniel W 2534 7
4 3 2604 GM Jones Gawain C B ½ - ½ GM Adams Michael 2670 6
5 4 2440 IM Trent Lawrence 0 - 1 GM Mcshane Luke J 2698 5

Jones & McShane 6/8, Ghasi 5, Adams, Harvey & Speelman 4.5, Trent 3, Gormally & Haria 2.5, Horton 1.5.

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 9 on 2021/12/12 at 1630
Bo. No. Rtg Name Result Name Rtg No.
1 5 2698 GM Mcshane Luke J 1 - 0 IM Ghasi Ameet K 2539 10
2 6 2670 GM Adams Michael 1 - 0 IM Trent Lawrence 2440 4
3 7 2534 GM Gormally Daniel W 0 - 1 GM Jones Gawain C B 2604 3
4 8 2337 IM Haria Ravi 0 - 1 IM Horton Andrew P 2298 2
5 9 2523 GM Speelman Jon S 1 - 0 FM Harvey Marcus R 2443 1

Jones & McShane 7/9,
Adams & Speelman 5.5,
Ghasi 5,
Harvey 4.5,
Trent 3,
Gormally Haria & Horton 2.5.

[John Upham]

Rounds 10 & 11 were won by Gawain in his play-off with Luke.