World Junior Chess Championships 2008

[Claire Summerscale]

David Howell, Peter Constantinou and Sarah Hegarty are currently representing England at the World Junior Chess Championships 2008.

You can read tournament reports here: http://www.chessuk.com/wj2008.html

and the official tournament website, with live games and full results is here: http://wjcc2008.tsf.org.tr/

The tournament report should be published on the ecf website, but they have chosen to ignore this important tournament and the reports that I have been sending, despite the fact that GM David Howell has been leading the event for England and the juniors were officially selected and supported by the ecf.

Claire Summerscale

[David Robertson]

Alas, David Howell lost to Li Chao (China) today in a Grunfeld (1-0, 137) - yes, that's a 137-move defeat in an astonishing struggle that, somewhere surely, David was level. It'll take Fritz to prove it though. David is now 3rd, 0.5 behind Li Chao

David
Atticus CC

[Claire Summerscale]

Lawrence Cooper reports that there are computer problems in Turkey, but he's managed to send all of the most recent reports. You can read our players' progress here: http://www.chessuk.com/wj2008.html

Claire Summerscale

[David Robertson]

David Howell - what a player!

Another astonishingly long and complex game today, played nervelessly on the minute increment to win (1-0, 127). Li Chao lost, so David goes jt-2nd behind Arik Braun (GER)

That's 264 moves in his last two games. Crikey!

In today's marathon, David played the last 50 moves on the increment, advancing from Q+P v R+B+P to a plain Q v R ending with amazing persistence and accuracy. Awesome!

David

[Claire Summerscale]

With just two rounds to go David Howell is 2nd=, just half a point behind the sole leader.

Come on David.

You can read the tournament reports and watch live games here: http://www.chessuk.com/wj2008.html

Claire Summerscale

[Ian Kingston]

Howell plays for the title tomorrow morning after winning with black today.

Whether or not he wins, he's played superbly throughout.

[Claire Summerscale]

A nail biting finish.

After a win today with Black, over a player rate 2605, David is 1st= with two other players, with just one round to go.

He faces one of these players tomorrow and has the white pieces.
David Howell vs Abhijeet Gupta.

A win for the World Junior title.

A fantastic performance. It's ridiculously exciting!!
Claire