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97th British Championships 2010 (Preview)

British Championships take place in Canterbury

IM Malcolm Pein - Tuesday 25th May 2010

The 97th British Chess Championships take place in Canterbury starting on 25th July 2010.

The British Chess Championships 2010 will be held at the University of Canterbury from 25th July to August 7th. Without sponsorship the championship itself won't be very representative but there are many other events for players of all strengths and ages. See the ECF website for more details.

The England teams for the Chess Olympiad in Khanty Mansiysk have been announced. The ECF is so strapped for cash it has been unable to secure the participation of England number one Michael Adams.

Open:

Nigel Short

Luke McShane

David Howell

Gawain Jones

Stephen Gordon

Women:

Jovanka Houska

Ingrid Lauterbach

Meri Grigoryan

Kanwal Bhatia

Sarah Hegarty

A sharp line of the Scotch used by Kasparov against Karpov in their 5th match in 1990 and subsequently but defences have been found as this game illustrates.

D Petrosian - N Grandelius

40th Bosna Open Sarajevo

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5 Qe7 7.Qe2 Nd5 8.c4 Ba6 9.Nd2 g6 10.b3 Bg7 11.Bb2 Nb4 12.Nf3 c5 13.g3 0-0 14.Bg2 d5 15.a3

(A novelty that does not work out well 15.0-0)

15...Nc6 16.0-0 Rab8 17.Nd2 Rfd8

(White is weak on the b file and Black's rooks are more active)

18.f4 Na5! 19.f5

(White can't defend himself so he goes for the attack. If 19.Bxd5? Rxd5 20.cxd5 Bxe2)

19...gxf5 20.Rxf5 Nxb3 21.Raf1 Nxd2 22.Rxf7?

(22.Qxd2 dxc4 23.Bd5 Rxd5 24.Qxd5 Qe6 25.Qd1 c3 26.Bxc3 Bxf1 27.Rxf1 fights on)

22...Qg5!

(Not 22...Qxf7 23.Rxf7 Kxf7 24.e6+!)