GM Stuart Conquest is the winner of this years British Championship. He defeated GM Keith Arkell in the playoff match 1.5-0.5 after they were tied on 7.5/11. This is the first championship for Conquest, although it would have been the first championship for anyone who finished first, as there were no former champions in the field!
Conquest is also a previous winner of the ANU Open (in 1999) and in 2004 kindly helped me during the early stages of my Olympiad drug test refusal by being the Spanish to English interpreter for myself and Cathy Rogers.
The player that I hoped would win, Gawain Jones, unfortunately lost his last round the Keith Arkell. Now I'm not sure whether this hindered him or helped, but he still found time between the rounds to issue a daily challenge to me in Facebook Premier League soccer. He thrashed me in every game.
Full coverage can be found at http://www.britishchess08.com/
Conquest,S (2536) - Haslinger,S (2511) [D10]
British Championship (10.3), 07.08.2008
1.c4 Nf6 2.d4 c6 3.Bf4 d5 4.e3 a6 5.Nf3 e6 6.Nc3 Bb4 7.a3 Bxc3+ 8.bxc3 Qa5 9.Qb3 dxc4 10.Bxc4 Nd5 11.0-0 0-0 12.Bg3 b5 13.Bd3 Qxc3 14.Qb1 Qa5 15.Bxh7+ Kh8 16.Bd6 Rd8 17.Ne5 f5 18.Bg6 Rxd6 19.Nf7+ Kg8 20.Nxd6 Qd8 21.Nxc8 Qxc8 22.e4 Nc3 23.Qb3 Ne2+ 24.Kh1 Nf4 25.exf5 Ra7 26.Rae1 Re7 27.Qf3 Nxg6 28.fxg6 Nd7 29.Rxe6 1-0
4 comments:
ok, i'll bite! "drugs test refusal"? i know of your olympiad involvement, and i do suspect that i understand the noble motives at play here, but i sense an untold story of heroism and rebellion. Tell on if you can!!
with putative admiration
shane
OK, rather than just lazily asked, i used my extensive research skills.Here this:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th_Chess_Olympiad#Drug_testing
massive kudos
shane
Rather than just lazily ask, i used my extensive research skills.Here this:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th_Chess_Olympiad#Drug_testing
massive kudos
shane
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