| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J.Wheeler 149 | 1 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1st | ||||
| 2 | D.Harvey 130 | 0 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5.5 | 2nd | ||||
| 3 | M.Bryant 142 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3rd= | ||||
| 4 | J.Hudson 131 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 0 | 1/2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1/2 | 5 | 3rd= | ||||
| 5 | M.Young 154 | 1 | 1/2 | 0 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3rd= | ||||
| 6 | M.Woodhams 121 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| 7 | D.Cosens 123 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 0 | 2.5 | |||||
| 8 | A.Pontonutti 103 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/2 | 0 | 1 | 1/2 | 0 | 2 | |||||
| 9 | S.Oakman 97 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | G.Jelliss 81 | 1/2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4.5 | 1= | ||||||
| 2 | U.Jozwiak 87 | 1/2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4.5 | 1= | ||||||
| 3 | P.Tournier 37 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | ||||||
| 4 | G.Chandler 87 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1/2 | 1 | 3.5 | |||||||
| 5 | R.Richardson 75 | 0 | 0 | 1/2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2.5 | |||||||
| 6 | H.Stephens 51 | 0 | 0 | 1/2 | 0 | 1 | 1.5 | ||||||||
| 7 | L.Steuart 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Nowadays I just play my moves quickly. I don’t think that thinking helps a lot….ninety percent of the time my instinct should be right.
(Speelman in British Chess Magazine)
If you don’t try to win so quickly you win more games… There’s quite strong repulsion from a win. If you go too directly towards it, it often makes it very difficult.
(Speelman in British Chess Magazine)
It is really a superior man who can watch a game of chess and remain silent
(Chinese proverb)
Chess is in general a drawn game, and often you have to choose continuations which are more to your taste.
(Kramnik in New in Chess)
It always ends in a draw. It’s the basic rule of computer chess.
(Vachier-Lagrave during his Masterclass in Gibraltor)
By kind permission of Brendan O’Gorman
Some photos from 2015/2016
Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.
(Carlsen)
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