Jovanka Houska, courtesy of John Upham
Last rounds don’t get any more exciting than today’s! A play-off is scheduled for the morning to decide the title.
http://britishchesschampionships.co.uk/
Conquest and Arkell, who has had a goodish last few months, played-on into extra time know-ing half-a-point would come in useful. And lucrative. Gordon, quite correctly, took an early draw with Hawkins perhaps not expecting Jones, who was labouring for sometime, to be able to join him. But Gawain did …
DJ Ledger-G Jones
North Shields, 2012
Dragon, Yugoslav B78
1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 g6 6 Be3 Bg7 7 f3 Nc6 8 Qd2 0–0 9 Bc4 Bd7 10 0–0–0 Rb8 11 Bb3 Na5 12 h4 b5 13 h5 Nc4 14 Bxc4 bxc4 15 hxg6 fxg6 16 Bh6 Qb6 17 b3 cxb3 18 axb3 Bxh6 19 Qxh6 Rf7 20 Qg5 Rc8 21 Nd5 Nxd5 22 exd5 Qa5 23 Kb2 e5 24 Ne2 Bf5 25 Rd2 Rb7 26 Ra1 Qc5 27 Rc1 Kg7 28 g4 h6 29 Qh4 Bxc2! 30 Rcxc2 Rxb3+ 31 Kc1 Qa3+ 32 Kd1 Rb1+ 33 Nc1 Qxf3+ 34 Re2 Qd3+! 0–1.
Rudd rushed too much, Osborne tried to block things up and Houska, secure in winning the Women’s Prize for the umpteenth time, took a draw and the Ladies Prize for the umpteenth time.
Rd.11 North Shields
S Gordon (8.5) draw J Hawkins (7), Gruenfeld, Russian
D Ledger (6.5) 0-1 G Jones (8), Dragon, Yugoslav Attack
D Howell (7.5) 1-0 M Osborne (6.5), French McCutcheon
S Conquest (6.5) draw K Arkell (7), Caro-Kann 3 e5 c5!?
D Gormally (6.5) 1-0 C Hanley (6.5), Budapest Gambit 3…Ng4?!
J Holland (6) 0-1 M Turner (6), Anti-King’s Indian
R Palliser (6) 1-0 J Rudd (6), Modern Benoni, Flick-Knife
J Houska (6) draw J Adair (6), QID 4…Bb4+
M Harvey (6) draw D Eggleston (6), QP 4…b5
D Kolbus (5.5) draw D Mackle (5.5), English 1…e5.
