British Championship: Playoff

by Macauley Peterson
8/6/2017 – Games and commentary from the 4-way playoff at the 104th British Championship in Llandudno, July 28th – August 6th, 2017 | Photo: Phil Makepeace

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Playoff at 17:00 CEST (15:00 GMT)

 

Games and commentary

 

Playoff

Commentary by IM Michael Rahal

Standings after nine rounds (Top 20)

Rk. Name Pts.
1 Howell David Wl 7,0
  Jones Gawain Cb 7,0
  Mcshane Luke J 7,0
  Hanley Craig A 7,0
5 Emms John M 6,5
  Ghasi Ameet K 6,5
  Palliser Richard Jd 6,5
8 Hawkins Jonathan 6,0
  Pert Nicholas 6,0
  Adair James R 6,0
  Hebden Mark L 6,0
  Zhou Yang-Fan 6,0
  Gormally Daniel W 6,0
  Trent Lawrence 6,0
  Wells Peter K 6,0
  Haria Ravi 6,0
  Eggleston David J 6,0
  Horton Andrew P 6,0
19 Williams Simon K 5,5
  Merry Alan B 5,5

Commentary on rounds 1-9


Commentary by IM Michael Rahal, IM Daniel Fernandez (rounds 3-7) and GM Ilja Zaragatski (rounds 1-2)

Game of the Day

IM Andrew Martin brings you highlights from prior rounds | Source: English Chess Federation

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Macauley is Editor in Chief of ChessBase News in Hamburg, Germany, and producer of The Full English Breakfast chess podcast. He was an Associate Producer of the 2016 feature documentary, Magnus.
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ulyssesganesh ulyssesganesh 8/4/2017 05:07
without the participation of chess players of commonwealth countries ( imagine, spragget, thipsay, barua, murshed, rogers, kunte, ramesh (the last two were the winners of the ch., ), the British championship has lost its lustre!
macauley macauley 8/3/2017 09:38
Short had a conflict with the Xtracon Open (which incidentally we just published a report about: http://en.chessbase.com/post/jobava-wins-xtracon-in-extraordinary-fashion).
genem genem 8/2/2017 07:06
Hmm, I wonder why the list of participants includes neither M.Adams nor N.Short?
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