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| Aug-08-25 | | keithbc: Understandably with so much at stake ( a loss for either would probably have meant no title this year) Adams v Vitiugov ended in a draw. Shame as NV perhaps needed the win in that game as Adams is white v Fernandez next game which will probably clinch the title for Adams. Not just the lower rated DF but also he has not had a successful outing the last few years. I hope I am wrong, but there might be an anti-climax after today's game (Adams - fernandez). |
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| Aug-08-25 | | keithbc: I don't think Adams' participation in the British is what has thwarted Gormally's chance. He (DG) freely admits to not being brave enough (agreeing to draws too easily). |
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Aug-09-25
 | | Sally Simpson: Mickey could have been the sole leader if he had put away the chance the commentators had spotted in Adams vs D H Fernandez, 2025 after 18...f5.
click for larger viewApparently White chops wood on d6 and e8, then c4 and Bxc6 and the KP ending is greatly in White's favour. Of course I'm nodding along like I agree but could see some cute moves would be needed. After they had finished trying various lines they looked at their computer and it agreed. Mickey chopped on d6 but then played 20.Kf1 and the chance was gone. |
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Aug-09-25
 | | HeMateMe: just guessing, but after swapping all of the pieces white seems to be able to bring his King to the Queenside where it can gain the opposition by a timely c4. Black's King would be on it's heels guarding the weak queenside pawns. |
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Aug-09-25
 | | offramp: Shreyas Royal is 16½ years old. His score is currently 5½/7. He has a real chance of winning this championship. |
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Aug-09-25
| | Sally Simpson: After 7 round there are 13 players ½ a point behind the leaders. Both Adams and Royal have the black pieces today, if they both draw then the final round could have four or five players leading the tournament. The tie break rules start on page 11 https://www.britishchesschampionshi... |
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Aug-09-25
| | offramp: GM Stuart Conquest sports an unusual tonsorial combo: shiny smoothness on his crown, then suborbital long grey hair, like a member of <Fairport Convention>. Today, round 8, he is playing <Chivas Regal>. |
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Aug-09-25
| | HeMateMe: Could sandy Dennis blitz? |
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| Aug-09-25 | | dehanne: <Stuart> should have been named <Norman>. |
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Aug-09-25
| | Sally Simpson: The way things panned out there are six players all tied on 6pts going into the last round and they all play each other. Vitiugov 2676 - Conquest 2511
Adams 2663 - Czopor 2434
Pert 2409 - Roberson 2440
On paper (rating difference) you have to fancy Adams to win with a possible tie break v Vitiugov. Pert v Roberson tough to call. There are nine players on 5½ if the above three all draw then we could have a six or seven player tie break. That sounds like fun. |
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Aug-10-25
| | offramp: <IF> there's a tie-break, the 2 players are ... getting on.
I mean, they are middle-aged.
Adams is 53 and Vitiu.gov.uk is 38. |
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Aug-10-25
| | Sally Simpson: At the moment it is looking very much like there will be at least one positive result on the top three boards so no mass tiebreak. All three whites are showing aggressive intentions Vitiugov - Conquest is this after seven moves
click for larger viewhttps://www.chess.com/events/2025-b... |
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Aug-10-25
| | offramp: The top boards have done very well as Black. |
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Aug-10-25
 | | keypusher: <offramp: The top boards have done very well as Black.> Indeed, decisive results on the top five boards and just one White win. So I guess Adams, Conquest, and Roberson end up tied for first? |
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Aug-10-25
| | Sally Simpson: Mickey won the play off v Conquest and is the British Champion for the 9th time. |
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Aug-10-25
 | | chrisowen: Lack the truth right? |
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Aug-10-25
 | | MissScarlett: British Championship Tiebreak (2025) |
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Aug-11-25
| | HeMateMe: Congratulations to Michael Adams, a classy fellow who just plays great chess and avoids controversy and silly inuendo. Um....could Adams have won more championships if the fastidious British sports authorities had presented Mickey with decent appearance fees over the years? That would encourage more participation. I suppose the budget for footballers would then have had to be cut by .0000001% but really, I think chess is worth the sacrifice. |
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Aug-11-25
| | HeMateMe: <interviewer to ronnie wood why are you still alive>Gyoooo |
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Aug-11-25
| | offramp: <HeMateMe: ...Could Adams have won more championships if the fastidious British sports authorities had presented Mickey with decent appearance fees over the years? > I know that a few years ago the organizers offered NO prize money at all. That was sad. |
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Aug-11-25
| | MissScarlett: It's low hanging fruit. <cg> ought to sponsor the 2026 event. |
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| Aug-11-25 | | colonelm26: What is the record of wins? Is it 10 or 11? Penrose ? |
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Aug-11-25
 | | perfidious: Penrose has ten titles. |
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Aug-11-25
| | Sally Simpson: Jonathan Penrose, 10 wins.
Appearance Fees?
I know there was a kerfuffle regarding them just after the great shift in the rules as to who can play in the British Championship. At one time any player in the British Commonwealth could play but after Indian players won it back to back in 2002 and 2003 it was decided this event did not serve British Chess (for British Chess read - English Chess). So in a effort to get normal service resumed i.e. an English British Champion it was open to players from Britain only.
Unfortunately (depending on your POV) Rowson won it three times on the trot. It was around about here after his third win the rumour of miserable or no appearance fees surfaced. After Rowson's triple hit the title was won in 2007 by another Scot, Jacob McAagaard, who at that time was registered to play for Scotland. (Rowson was 2nd=) Having kicked out the commonwealth players the English Chess Fed were no doubt hoping Scotland would gets it's Independence so they could bar them as well. More rumours of disputes over appearance fees surfaced. In 2008 neither Rowson or McAagaard played in the event. (a joint boycott? more rumours, but by now regarding app fees you could be excused for thinking of no smoke without fire. https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopi... indicate something was going on. ) Blessed joy returned in 2008 with dancing on England's green and pleasant land when Conquest won it (in Liverpool where he nearly won it again). Since then it has been English players winning it. (However, Cornwall was not part of 1707 Act of Union that created Great Britain. So officially Mickey is not English and therefore not British. He should not have been allowed to play.) |
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| Aug-11-25 | | Albertan: A Chessbase report on this tournament is at:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/adams... |
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