Winton Capital
Eton College, Berkshire, for the first time, plays host to the Winton Capital British Chess Solving Championship on February 18th, 2012. The event will be located in School Hall and run by the British Chess Problem Society (BCPS) having migrated from Oakham School, its venue for the last 17 Championships.
British Chess Problem Society
Expected entrants include John Nunn, Jonathan Mestel, David Friedgood and BCMs Christopher Jones amongst a large field of solvers from home and abroad.
Eton College, Berkshire
For more details see the BCPS web site.
Your aged Editor attended the School Hall, Eton, this afternoon and was welcomed in most warmly by Brian Stephenson, Tony & Sally Lewis, John Taylor, John Rice and other grandees of this most rarified strain of the genus Caissa Vulgaris. Other notaries in attendence included Nigel Dennis, Studies Supremo IR Watson, Problems Editor, Christopher Jones, former BCM Problemist David Friedgood and the doctors, A Mestel and J Nunn. Oliver Penrose was there too, a dozen or more names that I could not put faced to, too, and a dozen or less faces, unnamed. Amid such fame, I left early fearing an under-promotion.
Final scores: 1st P Murdzia (POL) 65; 2nd= E van Beers (BEL) & CA McNab (SCOT) both 61; 4th AJ Mestel (ENG) 59; 5th JDM Nunn (ENG) 56; 6th M van Herck (BEL) & D Wissmann (NED) both 51.5; 8th R McKay (SCOT) 51; 9th IR Watson 50; 10th M McDowell …. 38 players.
Piotr Murdzia was the favourite with an Elo of 2801 and one of the five GMs of Problem Solving competing. Thanks to Brian Stephenson.