2021 British Championship, Round 8

Crunch time at the top of this very competitive tournament, and we now have two joint leaders going into the last round. One is top seed Nick Pert, who won quickly against McPhillips, and the other is Andrew Ledger, who got his second GM scalp of the tournament by beating Gormally. The board 2 game between Hebden and Harvey went on for 117 moves, but neither of them could get the victory that would have them join the top scoregroup.

The other big news of the day was that Svetlana Sucikova's draw with Arkell got her to a live rating of 2200. As she already has all three of the necessary norms (and, indeed, will get another provided her round 9 game against Gormally takes place), this will mean she can claim the WIM title. Congratulations to her.


Board No.
Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts.
Name Rtg No.
1 8 IM Ledger Andrew   J 2329 5 1 - 0 5 GM Gormally Daniel   W 2480 2
2 4 GM Hebden Mark L 2455 5 ½ - ½ 5 FM Harvey Marcus R 2465 3
3 1 GM Pert Nicholas 2548 5 1 - 0 4½ IM Mcphillips   Joseph 2425 5
4 13 WFM Sucikova   Svetlana 2175 4 ½ - ½ 4 GM Arkell Keith C 2380 6
5 14 WFM Head Louise 2090 3½ 0 - 1 4 FM Olson Hamish 2273 9
6 16
Finn Peter 1959 3½ 1 - 0 4
Starley Robert 2057 15
7 18
Stubbs Oliver 1925 3 0 - 1 3
Khoury Theo 1814 19
8 17
Willison Steven 1936 1 1

bye

9 7 IM Eggleston David   J 2356 3½ 0

not paired

10 10 IM Bradbury Neil H 2265 2½ 0

not paired

11 11
Brooks Phil J 2191 1 0

not paired

12 12 FM Webb Laurence E 2184 2½ 0

not paired

13 20
Mehrafarin   Amirabbas 1734 0 0

not paired

14 21
Gordon Frederick 1523 2 0

not paired

15 22 AFM Latypova Olga L 1266 3½ 0

not paired



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