Top knockout at the London Chess Classic

BRITISH KNOCKOUT CHAMPIONSHIP

The prize fund dwarfs that available in the British Championship and the winner of the British Knockout Championship will get a hefty £20.000, with £10.000 for the runner-up, £5.000 for 3rd-4th, and £2.500 each for 5th-8th.

The quarter finals will take place on the 1st December and the semi finals on the 2nd December at the Kensington Olympia Hilton Hotel London. The six-game final, which will run from 4-9 December - with a possible play-off on the 10th December - will be held at Olympia, alongside the other London Chess Classic events.

Here is the line-up for the first British Knockout Championship:

England’s number 2, 3, 4 and 6 players - Howell, McShane, Short and Jones - are joined by Scottish number 1, Jonathan Rowson, as well as two of England’s most promising junior players, Daniel Fernandez and Yang-Fan Zhou.

Coincidentally, with Michael Adams participating in the Classic, this means that all the members of the English team from the European Team Championship, just concluded in Reykjavik, will be playing at this year’s London Chess Classic.

You can find the pairings for the tournament below. In the semi finals, the winner of QF 1 will play the winner of QF 4, while the winners of QF 2 and 3 will be facing each other.

Quarter Final 1
David Howell v Yang-Fan Zhou

Quarter Final 2
Luke McShane v Daniel Fernandez

Quarter Final 3
Nigel Short v Jonathan Hawkins

Quarter Final 4
Gawain Jones v Jonathan Rowson

You will yourself get the opportunity to possibly play against these 8 players, as they will all participate in the London Chess Classic Super Rapidplay on 12-13 December.

All details about the format, draw and schedule of this event will be published on a dedicated page on the official London Chess Classic website shortly.

Fiona Steil-Antoni
Press Officer

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