Saturday 12th
& Sunday 13th November 2016
Temple
Moor High School
Field End Grove
Selby Road
Leeds LS15 0PT
An English Chess Federation
supported Grand Prix event | Entries - Steve Burton (0113)
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Tournament Secretary - Brent Kitson kitson453@btinternet.com
British Rapidplay Chess 2016 Day one report B.Kitson BRC.
The year had already
seen Brexit and then a new style leader of America.
Leeds United for once are climbing up the table, whilst South Africa had recently beaten up the Aussies at Cricket.
The World Chess Championships had gotten started the day before in New York between Grand Masters Magnus Carlson and Sergey Karjakin
…and what a year
so far with The Olympics , The European Football , etc !!!!…..
Well we are here in
Leeds again for the thirtieth anniversary edition of this established chess
event.
It all started back
in 1986 at The Queens Hotel with Grandmaster Nigel Short winning.
Made in Leeds TV had
kindly publicized the event this year on its 6pm Thursday news bulletin.
At its new venue of
Temple Moor High School (1200 students), things started off at 11.00am on time.
Despite some glitches
on the wi-fi, the event was running smoothly …
thanks
to the administrators/helpers/arbiters/players/and Temple Moor School
Staff. Lee, Declan, Elaine and Wayne of Temple Moor
were all great...
The Junior Under 11, The Open and The Minor have good entry
numbers…plus The Open and The Major events are now F.I.D.E. run, with the
juniors computerized.
In the days England Under 11 trial Joe Birk (Burnley)
and Lavanya Maladkar (Notts)
came out on top with each scoring 5 out of 5.Nigel Hepworth and Stephen Forbes, who smoothly ran this section,
took
some pictures of the event that you’ll find in the gallery section.
In the Minor...Lana Boztas, Andrew De Santos , Sai Tangirala
, and Toby Cox lead the way , all with
5/6 .Thanks by the way to our new support arbiter Andrew Sainsbury who’s joined the regular
team of Dave Welch , Pete Purland ,Lara Barnes
, and Alex McFarland and who run the
main events.
In the Intermediate
Richard Desmedt and Anita Sompton
lead the way on 5/6.
Results for the Major
and Open are on www.chess-results.com
The Major saw Joshua
Pink in second on 5/6, but with Han Yichen leading on
6/6…
Lara
Barnes doing a great job as usual in arbiting.
The Open this year
has a range of
top players including Keith Arkell G.M.,
the 1998 champion , plus three I.M’s and five F.M.’s .An international flavour too with Spanish/Irish/Danish/Bangladesh/Greece players in The Open .
Scotland has three top players too in the event , alongside
Scotland’s and our favourite
Scottish arbiter , Alex McFarlane..
Richard Bates I.M. leads outright on 5.5/6 , Lorin D’Costa I.M. is on 5/6 , whilst Peter Poobalasingham is on 5/6 ….
Who’s going to win it
? I don’t honestly know
See Day Two and the
final report ,
as well as a gallery of pictures . I understand all the games in PGN will soon
be downloadable .
Brent Kitson
Secretary BRChess.
Ps Thanks to Chess
Direct/PAT testers/David and Steve on the web/The set
up team etc.