Posted on August 13th, 2010 by Richard
Congratulations to GM Michael Adams on his win in the British Chess Championship.
Also congratulations to IM Jovanka Houska who won the womens title.
Mickey Adams won with a score of 9½/11 and a 2757 performance. Nick Pert finished second on 8 with a 2612 performance whilst Stuart Conquest, Andrew Greet, Jonathan Hawkins, Adam Hunt, Richard Pert & Alexei Slavin all finished equal third on 7½. Congratulations to Adam Hunt who secured his 2nd GM norm with a 2624 performance over eleven rounds
Here is the round 9 game between Adams and Hunt that ended in a draw:
[pgn height=500 initialhalfMove=16 autoplaymode=none]
[Event “97th ch-GBR”]
[Site “Canterbury ENG”]
[Date “2010.08.04”]
[Round “9.1”]
[White “Hunt, Adam C”]
[Black “Adams, Michael”]
[Result “1/2-1/2”]
[ECO “C65”]
[WhiteElo “2408”]
[BlackElo “2706”]
[PlyCount “64”]
[EventDate “2010.??.??”]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. O-O O-O 6. d4 Bb6 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bh4
d6 9. Qd3 g5 10. Bg3 Nh5 11. Bxc6 bxc6 12. Nbd2 a5 13. dxe5 dxe5 14. Qe2 Ba6
15. c4 f6 16. Rfd1 Qe7 17. Ne1 Ng7 18. Nc2 Ne6 19. Nf1 Qh7 20. b3 Rad8 21. Kh1
h5 22. h4 g4 23. f3 gxf3 24. gxf3 Kh8 25. Nfe3 Nd4 26. Nxd4 Bxd4 27. Rac1 Rg8
28. Bf2 c5 29. Rg1 Bc8 30. Rxg8+ Rxg8 31. Rg1 Be6 32. Rxg8+ Kxg8 1/2-1/2[/pgn]
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