| British Championship (2023) |
Name: British Championship
Event Date: Jul 22 - 30, 2023
Site: Leicester ENG
Format: 9-round swiss
Time Control: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 30 more minutes will be added.
The players will have a 30 second increment from move 1.
Official Website: https://www.britishchesschampionshi...
|
|
| page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 277 |
     |
 |
| Game |
| Result | Moves |
Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. D H Fernandez vs M A Ismail |
| 1-0 | 69 | 2023 | British Championship | D02 Queen's Pawn Game |
| 2. Adams vs S A Jones |
  | 1-0 | 38 | 2023 | British Championship | B30 Sicilian |
| 3. R Mitra vs N Pert |
| 0-1 | 23 | 2023 | British Championship | A15 English |
| 4. M P Unnikrishnan vs E Gasanov |
| 0-1 | 32 | 2023 | British Championship | A09 Reti Opening |
| 5. H Grieve vs J C Boswell |
| 1-0 | 42 | 2023 | British Championship | C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed |
| 6. S M Stoica vs M Hebden |
| ½-½ | 47 | 2023 | British Championship | E73 King's Indian |
| 7. M Wadsworth vs T Villiers |
| 1-0 | 32 | 2023 | British Championship | A37 English, Symmetrical |
| 8. A Mihalik vs R Pert |
| ½-½ | 40 | 2023 | British Championship | B12 Caro-Kann Defense |
| 9. J B Willow vs B Ogunshola |
| 1-0 | 55 | 2023 | British Championship | B07 Pirc |
| 10. A Saunders vs Y Han |
| ½-½ | 68 | 2023 | British Championship | C55 Two Knights Defense |
| 11. J Jackson vs M Payne |
| ½-½ | 36 | 2023 | British Championship | C11 French |
| 12. M Burrows vs T Chopra |
| 0-1 | 30 | 2023 | British Championship | B90 Sicilian, Najdorf |
| 13. D Eggleston vs A Kueh |
| ½-½ | 32 | 2023 | British Championship | B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange |
| 14. O Pollack vs J C Pigott |
| 1-0 | 41 | 2023 | British Championship | B54 Sicilian |
| 15. T Kanyamarala vs S Chan |
| 1-0 | 34 | 2023 | British Championship | A05 Reti Opening |
| 16. J Shearsby vs T Kanyamarala |
| 0-1 | 28 | 2023 | British Championship | B67 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 8...Bd7 |
| 17. B Derakhshani vs J Merriman |
| 1-0 | 49 | 2023 | British Championship | C11 French |
| 18. T Khoury vs A Balaji |
| 0-1 | 38 | 2023 | British Championship | B06 Robatsch |
| 19. W Claridge-Hansen vs P Shaw |
| ½-½ | 30 | 2023 | British Championship | A10 English |
| 20. R Starley vs B N Dong |
| 0-1 | 47 | 2023 | British Championship | C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd |
| 21. R Bates vs M Dignam |
| 1-0 | 40 | 2023 | British Championship | E64 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav System |
| 22. O Smith vs A G Ashton |
| 0-1 | 54 | 2023 | British Championship | B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 |
| 23. A Ledger vs N Pert |
| 1-0 | 54 | 2023 | British Championship | A14 English |
| 24. T Cox vs J Rudd |
| 0-1 | 61 | 2023 | British Championship | B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange |
| 25. A Khandelwal vs F Badacsonyi |
| 1-0 | 35 | 2023 | British Championship | B12 Caro-Kann Defense |
|
| page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 277 |
|
|
|
|
< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 3 OF 5 ·
Later Kibitzing> |
Jul-30-23
 | | offramp: <MissScarlett: > Coxy had a bye, one big long goodbye. |
|
Jul-31-23
 | | HeMateMe: Ireland eliminated at 2023 world cup but England has made it to the knockout rounds. Gonna be a war if England plays the USA in the knockouts! Big blonde babe bashers. |
|
Jul-31-23
 | | Sally Simpson: I'm going to have a wee bet on China to beat England. (odds = 8-1) They have their best player,Keira Walsh, out injured and it appears to have upset the balance of the team. Barcelona recently paid Man City £350,00 for Keira which is currently a world record for a female player. Barcelona will be hoping the injury is not too severe though no doubt they will have her insured (but will the dreaded small print cover an event where she was not playing for Barcelona?) |
|
Jul-31-23
 | | MissScarlett: Every time I read one of <NoMateHe>'s posts on women's football, I feel that I should be reporting him to the FBI. |
|
Jul-31-23
| | HeMateMe: I started worrying when I saw scarzzy's name appear on the lists at Jeffrey Epstein social events... |
|
Jul-31-23
 | | Check It Out: Congrats to GM Mickey Adams. I believe it's his 8th British title. I met him once and we chatted for a minute. Very nice person. And short. A small statured fellow. |
|
Aug-01-23
| | Sally Simpson: <And short. A small statured fellow.> Yes Mickey is one of those players, small in stature but a giant OTB. A common comment often used when describing Karpov in the 70's toearly 80's when English players were meeting him OTB for the first time. A pic of Mickey in comparison with his team mates from the 2019 World Team Championships. https://en.chessbase.com/Portals/al... |
|
| Aug-01-23 | | savagerules: Wow, he is short. I wonder though if he's taller than Morphy or Paul Simon. |
|
Aug-01-23
| | MissScarlett: He didn't use to be that tall. He only reached that height when he was 43. |
|
| Aug-01-23 | | Overgod: The Second placed individual, Steven Jones, who came in clear second place, with a rating in the 2100s, edging out several GMs and IMs, is most likely a cheater, who deliberately aimed for clear second, rather than first, to avoid too much attention/controversy. He picked up the 2.5k British pounds without much effort. Yes, it is possible to have a sudden burst of good results and play a few hundred points above one's rating. It's also possible to beat strong GMs. I have also done it. But not this consistently all of a sudden at the ripe age of 30+, being rated below 2200 and suddenly playing like a rock solid GM. C'mon. Cheaters are adapting and no longer after glory, but respectable prize money without attracting too much attention! |
|
Aug-01-23
| | Sally Simpson: Hi Overgod,
I think you are perhaps being over influenced by the numbers I looked at D H Fernandez vs S A Jones, 2023 a few days ago. It was all last round nerves and no hint at all of silicon. Steven missed a couple of cracking good moves. Missing, or not playing 20...Nc4 because he could not fathom it out OTB and playing a safe 20...0-0 is a clear indication of human play. <Yes, it is possible to have a sudden burst of good results and play a few hundred points above one's rating> I totally agree as it's also possible to have a slump and play a few hundred points below of what is expected of you. |
|
Aug-01-23
| | Check It Out: <Overgod> has made an unsubstantiated and reckless claim. As we have learned from the Carlsen-Niemann affair, if you are going to accuse someone of cheating in chess you need to come in with the facts first. Jones's first three wins come against opponents last rated on CG at: 1814, 1704, and 2057. No victory should be surprising there. The next three were last rated at 2382 (Eggleston), 2384 (Kanyamarala), and 2500 (Fernandez). Those are the games to examine: In S A Jones vs D Eggleston, 2023, Eggleston played 15...O-O: 
click for larger viewAn obvious blunder, leaving both bishops unprotected and in the line of fire. Jones won a piece and went on to win the game. S A Jones vs T Kanyamarala, 2023 was a bit of a wild game, with inprecision on both sides. Here, Kanyamarala played 22...f5, weakening his dark squares with no DSB to cover them. Jones's counterpart DSB became a monster and went on to win the game. 
click for larger view<Sally Simpson> and others have commented on the Fernandez game, D H Fernandez vs S A Jones, 2023. There is no evidence that Jones cheated. <Overgod> did not learn from Carlsen's mistakes. He should retract his claim and apologize. |
|
Aug-01-23
| | MissScarlett: Is Lan Yao - being the highest placed female - now the British Women's Champion? Hello!? She's Chinese. |
|
Aug-01-23
| | Check It Out: According to her FIDE card she players for England: https://ratings.fide.com/profile/86... |
|
Aug-01-23
| | Sally Simpson: Hi Check It Out.
I played over the Fernandez - Jones the day it was played when I was pointed to it due to a missed shot by Steve. I was surprised by the cheat claim and put it down to a poster being blinded by the numbers. It's all rather simple. Steve lost in round one and then had, let's call them easy games - though of course they were not. Steve then lost to Khandelwal (a blunder dropping the exchange) and he was in the pack with other crowd on on 2 out of 4. His win v the higher rated Eggleston is nigh proof no engine was involved. You can use an engine to give you sound moves. It cannot make your opponent play an off form blunder. Eggleston fought like a cornered rat after the blunder and Steve drifted a bit (he missed 38.Ne3 S A Jones vs D Eggleston, 2023) but it was a neat wrap up. |
|
Aug-02-23
 | | perfidious: <ovie> has also claimed to be 2600 strength; should we give that any more credence than this bald accusation of cheating? |
|
| Aug-02-23 | | dehanne: Miss Lan already played first board for England on the last Olympiad. |
|
Aug-02-23
| | Sally Simpson: I think the confusion is her bio Lan Yao does not mention her federation is England https://ratings.fide.com/profile/86... |
|
| Aug-02-23 | | Overgod: And yes, I stand by my claim that Steven Jones from the British Championships cheated, intentionally avoiding first spot just to claim a decent prize money for minimal effort. It is not that difficult to cheat these days without raising attention. FM Valeri Lilov already made extensive videos on how to program a computer to play well enough to beat, say, a 2400 player, but not that well as to play at modern engine strength. You can also simply switch the engine off and on at times, occasionally playing human moves, and then engine moves in critical positions. Someone who is rated 2100+ like little Jonesy Boy is strong enough to more or less judge when a position is "critical." And the times that he misses those decisions, he makes "human" moves, which causes people like <Check_It_Out> to get duped. He can also decide on a day or two just to play without engine assistance (when playing weaker opponents). That reduces the suspicion even more. And guess what? He can also program an engine to simply draw. If he sees that his score is getting too high (and thus may raise an eyebrow), he will just switch it off for the next game, or next few moves, and even deliberately lose, so as to maintain some credibility. But make no mistake: Little Jonesy boy came with the intention of grabbing that clear second position and sweet 2.5k pounds along with his government assistance check from the previous week. Any intelligent and decently strong human can cheat without detection by being careful how and when they utilize engine assistance. It really is not rocket science. |
|
Aug-02-23
| | Sally Simpson: Hi Overgod,
I am positive Steve did not cheat, I will not even entertain the idea. But this bit. <Any intelligent and decently strong human can cheat without detection by being careful how and when they utilize engine assistance.> How do you do it in an OTB event bearing in mind the players are scanned etc before each game. Then add in Steve's results v stronger players attracting even more attention so he may have been watched. But too intently, he is fairly well known and that his rating, which can only be based on players you play in your postcode, will be lower than his true ability. You have said it is not rocket science, I'm sure FIDE and all chess organisers would love to know if you have spotted a flaw in their anti-cheating routines. |
|
Aug-02-23
| | MissScarlett: <And yes, I stand by my claim that Steven Jones from the British Championships cheated...> Your initial claim was that Jones <most likely> cheated. Do you stand by that or are you upping the ante? |
|
| Aug-02-23 | | Overgod: I will take a proper look at the games and give an answer accordingly. As things currently stand, I believe he cheated. |
|
Aug-02-23
| | MissScarlett: Until that time, at least, he deserves the presumption of innocence, I think you will agree. |
|
Aug-02-23
| | perfidious: We await the verdict from <untergott>, delivered as if from On High, with bated breath. |
|
Aug-03-23
| | Check It Out: <MissScarlett: <And yes, I stand by my claim that Steven Jones from the British Championships cheated...> Your initial claim was that Jones <most likely> cheated. Do you stand by that or are you upping the ante?> <Overgod: I will take a proper look at the games and give an answer accordingly.> You should have done that first, before stating your claim. |
|
|
|
|
< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 3 OF 5 ·
Later Kibitzing> |
|
|
|
NOTE: Create an account today
to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users.
Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! If you already have a username,
then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion.
|
Please observe our posting guidelines:
- No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language.
- No spamming, advertising, duplicate, or gibberish posts.
- No vitriolic or systematic personal attacks against other members.
- Nothing in violation of United States law.
- No cyberstalking or malicious posting of negative or private information (doxing/doxxing) of members.
- No trolling.
- The use of "sock puppet" accounts to circumvent disciplinary action taken by moderators, create a false impression of consensus or support, or stage conversations, is prohibited.
- Do not degrade Chessgames or any of it's staff/volunteers.
Please try to maintain a semblance of civility at all times.
NOTE: Please keep all discussion on-topic.
This forum is for this specific tournament only. To discuss chess or this site in general,
visit the Kibitzer's Café.
|
Messages posted by Chessgames members
do not necessarily represent the views of Chessgames.com, its employees, or sponsors.
All moderator actions taken are ultimately at the sole discretion of the administration. |
Spot an error? Please suggest your correction and help us eliminate database mistakes!
Copyright 2001-2025, Chessgames Services LLC
|
Kibitzing
