8/7/2013 – David Howell won his round eight game with the black pieces against Simon Williams, raising his score to 7.0/8. But his main rival Mark Hebden also won and remains just half a point behind. Six players are in striking position with 6.0/8 points. Expect some exciting action in the last three rounds. In our historical review of past champions we look back at the ten-time winner Jonathan Penrose.
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A record-breaking number of over 1000 players are taking part in the 2013
British Championships, attracted by a combination of the beautiful venue
and the fact that it’s the 100th in a series stretching right back
to 1904. This year it is taking place in the Riviera International Centre
in Torquay. There are 23 different sections at the 2013 British Championships,
catering for all ages and abilities, but the main focus of interest is on
the Championship itself. There are 106 players taking part, of whom 33 are
titled players, including thirteen grandmasters. The Championship runs from
29th July to 10th August 2013.
Top results of round eight
It is a testimony to fighting spirit that the participants of the 100th
British Championship are showing that only two of the ten boards finished
in draws – and just one with players in contention for the title.
David Howell and Mark Hebden both won their games (Howell with black), while
last year's winnter Gawain Jones is working his way up the ladder after
a poor start.
In the next round on Tuesday seven players can theoretically catch David
Howell (if he loses his game against Danny Gormally) and Hebden can catch
him by winning if he draws. Well worth watching.
Many-times opponents Hebden and Arkell share
a joke before the start...
... reigning British Champion Gawain Jones
joins in
Selection of games from round eight
Select games from the dropdown menu above the board
Game of the day by Andrew Martin
Rd 8 Game of the Day GB Ch Torquay 2013
Photos provided by Brendan O'Gorman and Keverel
Chess
To really appreciate how far the event has come in its 100 years,
one needs to take the opportunity to look back at some of the milestones
on the way – the great characters, the champions and their games.
To do this, IM Andrew
Martin is using his computer skills to pick out some key games from
the past and run his expert eye over them. Similarly, Bob Jones, local chess
history writer, is compiling a set of ten pages, each on a past champion
and one of his/her games. These will appear, one at a time, in the daily
championship bulletins.
British Champions & Their Games - No. 8
1958 – Leamington Spa
In 1949 at Felixstowe the formula changed from the American to Swiss system,
allowing 32 to contest the title, rather than the traditional 12. Not everyone
was convinced of the rightness of this, arguing that the eventual winner
might not have played several of his rivals, but it has stayed this way
ever since.
A 15-year-old schoolboy called Penrose took part and came 18th= on five
points. The following year he came 3rd= and really caught the eye of the
public, though he did not play during his university years, and didn’t
reach for the heights again until he came 2nd= at Plymouth in 1957, behind
another dark horse, the 60-year-old Hungarian-born Dr. Fazekas. Penrose
had finished with four draws and a win, where Fazekas had finished with
four wins and a draw, so Penrose had let it slip. Incidentally, later that
year Fazekas returned the trophy in disgust at being left out of the BCF
team for the Munich Olympiad.
Next year, Jonathan Penrose (picture above) avoided this slow finish mistake,
and ended W;W;W;W; to tie with Barden. He won the five-match play-off, the
following being the fourth and decisive game.
[Event "BCF-ch London m"] [Site "London"] [Date "1958.??.??"] [Round
"5"] [White "Penrose, Jonathan"] [Black "Barden, Leonard William"] [Result
"1-0"] [ECO "B58"] [Annotator "Peter Clarke in BCM"] [PlyCount "61"] [EventDate
"1958.??.??"] [EventType "match"] [EventRounds "5"] [EventCountry "ENG"]
[Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "1999.07.01"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3.
d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. O-O Be7 9. f4
O-O 10. Kh1 Nd7 11. Bc4 Nb6 12. Bb3 Be6 $2 {It is surprising what a disastrous
move this turns out to be. White now forces Black to exchange the bishops
on b3, thus opening the a-file and at the same time he prepares a strong
king-side attack. It amounts to a tragedy for Black because his position
is otherwise satisfactory.} ({He should first have played} 12... a5 13.
a4 (13. a3 Be6 14. f5 Bxb3 15. cxb3 {because Black's centre would be too
strong.})) 13. f5 $1 Bxb3 14. axb3 d5 ({Since this is innocuous he might
have done better to play once} 14... Kh8) 15. Qg4 Kh8 16. Rf3 d4 {This
helps White to promote his attack because he no longer has to worry about
the position in the centre. He should have waited until White forced him
to play it.} ({Better was} 16... Rg8 17. Rh3 g6 {though it is not a very
promising position.}) 17. Ne2 Nd7 ({Again} 17... Rg8 {is a little better
The text gives up material in the hope of counter-play.}) 18. Rh3 g6 ({If}
18... Nf6 19. Qh4 { and the threat of Bg5 is decisive.}) 19. fxg6 fxg6
20. Qxg6 Rf1+ 21. Ng1 Qg8 22. Qxc6 Nf6 ({The desperate} 22... Rc8 {is
easily defeated by} 23. Qxd7 Rxc2 24. Rg3 Qf8 25. Rf3 {etc.}) 23. Rg3
Qc8 24. Qb5 Re1 {He now wins the title with a decisive combination.} 25.
Bh6 Rxa1 26. Qxe5 $1 ({He could also win by} 26. Bg7+ Kg8 27. Bxf6+ Kf7
28. Bxe7 {but the text is more decisive.}) 26... Bd8 27. Bg7+ Kg8 28.
Bxf6+ Kf7 29. Rg7+ Kf8 30. Qd6+ Ke8 31. Re7+ 1-0
Having made this final breakthrough, Penrose virtually made the trophy
his private property through the 1960s, winning it ten times in the twelve
years 1958 – 1969. He competed in nine Olympiads between 1952 –
1974, beating many of the world’s top players en route. But after
collapsing at the board through nervous tension, he restricted his chess
to the more sedate form of postal chess, becoming a GM in 1983 and was the
world’s highest rated postal player in 1989.
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