2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by Carl Hibbard » Thu Aug 01, 2013 7:27 pm

I am in the pub so not me guv.
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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by Peter Shaw » Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:40 pm

For those wanting an update on Longson-Jones, as of 10 minutes ago Jones was suffering in a rook endgame a pawn down. It's not been a good week for the champion.

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Post by David Grobler » Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:42 pm

Peter Shaw wrote:For those wanting an update on Longson-Jones, as of 10 minutes ago Jones was suffering in a rook endgame a pawn down. It's not been a good week for the champion.
but not a bad week so far you Peter...nice one today !

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Post by Matthew Turner » Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:54 pm

Fantastic start for David Howell though. 4/4, Gawain quite some way back, the in form Gormally beaten and the dangerous Yang-Fan out of the way. A draw with Black against Stephen Gordon tomorrow and the title is far from in the bag but he must be a very firm favourite.

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Post by Carl Hibbard » Thu Aug 01, 2013 9:00 pm

Peter Shaw wrote:For those wanting an update on Longson-Jones, as of 10 minutes ago Jones was suffering in a rook endgame a pawn down. It's not been a good week for the champion.
Hosting is right so they must have lost the connection to the board on site sorry :oops:
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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by Alan Walton » Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:20 pm

We have to expect some problems on the live board front, nothing is infallible, especially when it is done on the financial constraints imposed on yourself


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Post by Peter D Williams » Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:51 am

Matthew Turner wrote:Fantastic start for David Howell though. 4/4, Gawain quite some way back, the in form Gormally beaten and the dangerous Yang-Fan out of the way. A draw with Black against Stephen Gordon tomorrow and the title is far from in the bag but he must be a very firm favourite.
Morning all.

Have just been for a lovely walk in the woods with our West-highland terrier dog.

Yang-Fan will fight back and is not out of the way.You would not want to be his next opponent when he has lost a game :wink:
when you are successful many losers bark at you.

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Post by Carl Hibbard » Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:53 am

Gordon has been pretty smooth so far and I for one would like to see him pick it up after last year.
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Post by Carl Hibbard » Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:58 am

It's reasonably busy but nothing too drastic:
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Post by Matthew Carr » Fri Aug 02, 2013 2:42 pm

Good day ladies and Gentlemen.

Round 5 is underway. Livegames in their usual place of http://englishchess.org.uk/BCC/live-games/

The main hall webcam is running smoothly: www.livestream.com/ecfwebcam

And Andrew Martins commentary will be on this afternoon at his spot of www.livestream.com/leylandchess

Have a good afternoon everyone

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Re: 2013 British Chess Championships (Torquay)

Post by John Cox » Fri Aug 02, 2013 2:45 pm

Golly - we're not going to get Gheorghiu-Watson *again*, are we?! (in Fernandez-Gormally)

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Post by Phil Neatherway » Fri Aug 02, 2013 4:14 pm

Where did Jack go wrong?

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Post by John Cox » Fri Aug 02, 2013 4:29 pm

What on earth is Terry Chapman playing at? Oh well, it will get Bogdan nearer the front. It would be interesting to see if he could rouse himself to put an effort in if he had to win with Black for the title, for example.

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Post by Angus French » Fri Aug 02, 2013 5:15 pm

John Cox wrote:What on earth is Terry Chapman playing at? Oh well, it will get Bogdan nearer the front. It would be interesting to see if he could rouse himself to put an effort in if he had to win with Black for the title, for example.
As Bogdan would say: increadible. Two attacking pieces vs. six defending pieces? How could a 2300 (or 220-graded) player do that?

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