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British Championship Entries up to 570

IM Malcolm Pein - Tuesday 13th July 2010

Malcolm Pein reports on a good field for the 2010 British Championships.

Entries for the British Chess Championships are up to five hundred and seventy including more Grandmasters joining the field for the championship. Battle commences on 25th at the University of Kent in Canterbury. One player who will be sorely missed is John Littlewood who competed last year but died last September at the age of 78. John was one of England's most talented attacking players and fittingly, his family have decided to donate an annual prize of £100 to the most brilliant game played by an under eighteen in the British Championship. The prize is particularly apt because John was BCF Director of Junior Chess for a number of years.

John was an excellent trainer but he had no mercy on juniors over the board as I found to my cost a couple of times. Nigel Short was enjoying a spectacular debut in the British championships until he met John.

John Littlewood - Nigel Short

British Ch Brighton 1977

French Winawer

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 Ne7 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 c5 7.Nf3 Qa5 8.Bd2 Nbc6 9.a4 Bd7 10.Be2 0-0-0 11.c4 Qc7 12.cxd5 Nxd5 13.c4 Nde7 14.dxc5 f6 15.0-0 Ng6 16.a5! fxe5?

(It was this game that taught us a6 is compulsory in this kind of position)

17.a6 Nf4 18.axb7+ Kxb7 19.Bxf4 exf4 20.Ng5 Rhf8 21.Bf3 h6 22.Ne4 g5 23.Nd6+ Ka8 24.Nb5 1-0

Nxa7 or Rxa7 is next

Nigel Short