British Championships

Simon Knott castled kingside, played Kh2, and then changed his mind and started marching his king over to the other side of the board!

When I did a similar maneuver against Weyerstrass he mated me as the king arrived, exhausted, on the queenside.

Edit: Game 3690130. Actually he didn't mate me, he just opened up the queenside before I could blink and made my king look foolishly exposed.

I wonder if mark hebden has looked into the games here? He is quite an attacking player, when the mood takes him.

Jones wins 🙂

Wow, that was quite a spectacular win in the end.

I think Jones had it well in had for most of the game. 26. ... Ne4 was a nice move with an unstoppable mate on g2 if White tried to get up to any nonsense on g7.

David Eggleston looks like he is going to lose a piece quite soon - that pinned rook is a bit of a weak spot.

hebden looks dodgy to me 🙂

Originally posted by Smiffy
hebden looks dodgy to me 🙂

Looks like my predictions of a piece being lost came true....

yea bogdan won eggleston is a good player aswell so it was a good result.

Hebden just drew his game too.

Lee Davis lost his game.

I see that Lee Davis is also playing in the 5 day Open AM week 1 with a grade of 163A.

What's that all about then?

😕

Looks like Dave Tebb drew his first game in the Major Open and now plays a 16 year old, Daniel Rocks 1960, in the second round.

Originally posted by no1marauder
Looks like Dave Tebb drew his first game in the Major Open and now plays a 16 year old, Daniel Rocks 1960, in the second round.