Joe Gallagher Wins British Championship

Smith & Williamson British Championship

Joe Gallagher, 2001 British Champion Photo: Bob Jones

This year's Smith & Williamson British Championship, the 88th, held at Scarborough's Spa Centre from 29 July to 11 August, proved to be one of the closest for many years. At the end of the first week, no less than seven players shared the lead on 4½/6. But this large group didn't include the eventual winner, 37-year-old grandmaster Joe Gallagher.

Once again Julian Hodgson was the pre-tournament favourite, with his wins in the two previous championships (making four in all) and his position as the top-rated player. But his rating has come down 59 points in the intervening period and his recent appearances have been limited owing to his heavy teaching commitments. The effect of this was not drastic - he did not lose any games - but his usual ability to steamroller even the strongest opposition was noticeably curtailed.

In the early rounds there was the entertainment of seeing some of the lesser-known names doing battle with big-name grandmasters. Top of this year's giant-killers this year proved to be 36-year-old Martin Walker from Cambridge, who has recently changed his name from Martin Sheppard (or Shepherd, as it is on the FIDE Rating List). This makes him hard to track down on game databases. Whether that was a factor or not, he also proved hard to beat, despite a lowly FIDE rating of 2109. After a win against Stewart Reuben (playing as a 'filler') in round 1, he made it 2/2 with a win against Australian IM Gary Lane in round 2. Surely a mistake, you say - Paignton-born, loyal Torquay United supporter Gary Lane an Australian? It's true, he's married an Australian and changed nationality - though the FIDE list has him down as Canadian! But back to the tale of Martin Walker; after dispatching 'Crocodile' Lane, he faced grandmaster and 1996 British Champion Chris Ward. Martin was up to the task and scored a draw, as he did against another grandmaster, Joe Gallagher, in round 4. With a score of 3/5 there was no escape from strong opposition in round 5, but this time he lost, to former ChessMoves editor John Emms. Martin bounced back in round 6 and rounded off his amazing week with another IM scalp; this time, Colin Crouch was his victim. 4/6 against such opposition gave him very real prospects of an IM norm, but he only scored 1/5 the second week and missed out. That still ranked as a 2352 rating performance, however.

So it proved to be a tight race between some of the traditional contenders and one or two new names. Just one of the seven week-one leaders (Julian Hodgson, Chris Ward, Peter Wells, John Emms, Bogdan Lalic, Murray Chandler, John Shaw) was a non-grandmaster and non-English registered - Scotland's John Shaw - and he was the only winner amongst the leaders in round 7, beating Chris Ward in a tough game. Joe Gallagher and Simon Ansell joined the pursuing group by beating Simon Knott and Scottish champion Jonathan Rowson respectively. In round 8, John Shaw drew steadily with Peter Wells and was caught in the lead when Hodgson overcame Summerscale, and Gallagher beat Chandler with a superlative tactic in a nail-biting time scramble. Amongst the group packed behind the leaders was a resurgent Gary Lane who, no doubt buoyed up by his all-conquering fellow countrymen in the concurrent cricket Test Series between Australia and England, dispatched England's first OTB grandmaster, Tony Miles, from the black side of a Torre Attack.

The round 9 pairings were Lalic-Hodgson and Gallagher-Shaw. The current champion could have been in trouble if Bogdan Lalic had gone in for a queen for rook and knight sacrifice, but the opportunity passed and the game ended in a draw. Scots supporters were beginning to dream of another success to put alongside rank outsider Robert Combe's unlikely championships victory of 1946. But Joe Gallagher put paid to that with some typically canny play towards the time control, gradually raising the pressure until something cracked. In round 10, Gallagher played black against Peter Wells and had his early draw offer accepted. The other top board game, Chandler-Hodgson, was very hard-fought, but in the end the two players played to a standstill. There was a crop of decisive games on the next four boards, however, which meant that six players were breathing down the leader's neck going into the final round.

The championship ended, not with a bang, but a whimper. Joe Gallagher, with white against Keith Arkell, made a very early draw offer. Arkell, wrong-footed by Gallagher's unfamiliar 3 Nd2 (instead of his usual 3 Nc3) against his French Defence, had nothing suitable prepared to counter it so opted to accept the draw offer. This assured him of a reasonable share of the prize fund but also meant he had passed up a golden opportunity to become British Champion. Gallagher then had to wait and see what happened on the next three boards where Hodgson-Wells, Emms-Lalic and Hebden-Summerscale were the pairings. There was some full-blooded chess in all three of these games, with both Wells and Lalic looking likely to join Gallagher on 8/11 at one time or another; but, in the end, all three games ended in draws, and, no doubt to his great relief, Joe Gallagher found he was the sole winner, taking the £10,000 cheque for first prize and the title of 2001 Smith & Williamson British Champion.

In many ways, this was a remarkable success for the 37-year-old grandmaster who originally hails from London. One interesting statistic is that he has never previously won a British national title at any age level or at any mode (e.g. blitz or rapidplay). This may be a unique achievement in an era where such competitions proliferate. This is not to say that Joe has not competed for many of these titles because he has. For many years Joe played everywhere, in as many competitions as he could. This is one secret of his success. It is a remarkable example of a chess 'late-developer' who has come up through the ranks through hard graft and without the fanfare that has heralded such prodigies as Nigel Short and Michael Adams. But this was not the first time he has won a national championship; he won the Swiss Championship in 1997 and 1998. Joe has lived for many years in Switzerland and is FIDE-registered as a Swiss player. That said, he still holds a British passport.

Melanie Buckley, 2001 British Women's Champion Photo: Bob Jones

That this was a close championship is shown by the fact that no-one has won outright with 8/11 since Bill Hartston won with that score in Morecambe in 1975. There was a pile-up of seven players on 7½: Hodgson, Arkell, Wells, Emms, Gormally, Lalic and Hebden. Looking to the future, the Under 21 championship was shared by IM Nicholas Pert and FM Richard Palliser, scoring 6½. For the 20-year-old university student and former world under-18 champion Pert, this is about par for the course, but for 19-year-old Palliser marks another step forward in a year of considerable improvement. Richard Pert scored half a point less than his twin brother and in the process scored a 10-round IM performance norm. The women's championship was something of a disappointment in that only two women competed as part of the championship, namely Oxford University undergraduate Melanie Buckley and 18-year-old Elaine Rutherford from Scotland. Melanie it was who secured the championship, scoring 5 to Elaine's 4, and crowned her achievement by scoring an 11-round women's IM norm.

2001 Smith & Williamson British Championships:
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Smith & Williamson Young Masters, 13-21 July

by James Vigus

James Vigus missed an IM norm by half a point Photo: John Saunders

With all but the top seed rated between 2200 and 2400, it looked from the start unlikely that any one player would dominate the Masters. Indeed the early rounds saw some relative underdogs surge forward at the expense of the IMs - though by the end order was restored, IMs Gergely Antal (Hungary) and Oleg Gladyszev (Russia) scooping first and second place respectively.

Having more than equalised with Black in the first round against the normally solid American IM, Dean Ippolito, I anticipated a comfortable draw or perhaps a chance to press for more. But after a half-hour think, Ippolito came up with a simple piece blunder (accompanied by a draw offer). Winning this game seemed to kick-start me for the first half of the tournament. The next two rounds brought me two Whites, and a draw with Simon Williams plus a positional win against the Australian (of Chinese extraction) Zong-Yuan Zhao. In round 4 I met my fourth consecutive IM, top seed Karl Mah. The initiative swung to and fro but having outplayed Karl in the first time scramble I managed to mate him with seconds to spare in the sixth hour, despite forgetting in panic how to win a Lucena position.

So I was unexpectedly in sole lead on 3½/4, with Simon Williams second on 3. Williams now looked the most likely player to take the tournament by the scruff of the neck, and indeed he soon crushed Zhao in typical style. Williams-Zhao began 1 c4 e6 2 Nc3 d5 3 d4 c6 4 e4 dxe4 5 Nxe4 Bb4+ 6 Bd2 Qxd4 7 Bxb4 Qxe4+ 8 Be2 Na6 9 Ba5!? b6? (best is 9…Bd7) 10 Bc3 and White had obtained a standard position with Black having played the fatally weakening …b6. Asked in the post-mortem about his choice of opening, Zhao replied, "I just wanted to provoke him." Clearly the one previous encounter between these two, in which Williams sacrificed a rook for virtually nothing but nevertheless delivered mate, wasn't enough to convince the 15-year-old that this was a man who needs no provocation!

Meanwhile the Russian IM Oleg Gladyszev plodded remorselessly along, burning the midnight oil on opening preparation then conserving energy at the board by offering draws. The win-bonus scheme (a £25 prize for every win in excess of two) was not enough to tempt Gladyszev away from his win-with-White, draw-with-Black plan, but he was so difficult to beat that he would always be in the reckoning for a major prize. As for the other overseas players, FMs Rasmus Skytte (Denmanrk), Petr Sinkevich (Russia) and Thorbjorn Bromann played some promising games - but FM Tom Middelburg (Netherlands) struggled for form throughout the tournament and IM Gergely Antal had a miserable start.

Oleg Gladyszev Photo: John Saunders

Stuck on 1/3, Antal found himself completely lost against FM John Bick (USA). But perhaps Bick had already had a few too many big nights out on the town (what town?), as he contrived to lose an ending two pawns up. Thus began Antal's amazing run. In physical appearance something like a (very) mini Pete Sampras, Antal displayed a Sampras-style quality of determination as he achieved five straight wins: Bick, Bret Addison, Bromann, Sinkevich and Williams were the victims. Bromann was never in the game, but the others - especially Sinkevich - could count themselves a bit unlucky. But in the end it doesn't matter how the wins come, and the rise of Antal coincided with the fall of the English challenge. I drew with Skytte in round 5, then was outplayed by Sinkevich in round 6. Round 7 made me (as the organiser Alec Webster kindly pointed out to me) the only player to have lost to Gladyszev as White in the Russian's two Smith and Williamson events.

In round 7 Bromann beat Addison: this meant that Bromann and I, on 4/7, each needed to finish with two wins for an IM norm. At this stage Antal and Williams shared the lead on 5/7, with Mah just behind on 4.5. Round 8 was make-or-break for just about everyone. Bromann took a quickish draw, relinquishing his norm chance; Mah-Gladyszev was fascinatingly complicated (see below), but fizzled out to a draw; and Antal beat Williams to take sole lead. Meanwhile I resuscitated my norm chances, accepting Richard Palliser's sacrifices and then beating off his attack. Now the standings were: Antal 6/8; Gladyszev 5½; Mah, Vigus, Williams, Zhao 5.

After this, the last round was an anti-climax. Gladyszev-Antal on board 1 surprised no-one by lasting all of five seconds. Zhao-Mah on 2 was also a draw, though far better contested; then unfortunately Williams overpressed with White in a quiet Symmetrical English against Skytte, allowing the latter to sneak up to 6 points; and on board 4 I spoilt a crushing position against Bromann, missing the norm by the narrowest of half points.

So in general IMs gravitated to the top, FMs to the middle, and youth to the bottom (though all credit to Murugan Thiruchelvam for gaining a win bonus):

1 Gergely Antal 6½/9 £500
2 Oleg Gladyszev 6 £300
3-7 James Vigus, Rasmus Skytte, Karl Mah, Zong-Yuan Zhao, Dean Ippolito 5½
8-10 Simon Williams, Thorbjorn Bromann, Tom Hinks-Edwards 5

Best non-IM: Skytte, Vigus (£100 each) Win bonuses: Antal, Gladyszev, Ippolito, Mah, Skytte, Vigus, Zhao, Hinks-Edwards, Williams, Bick, Thiruchelvam

Full results can be found on the BCF web site - click here - or at the tournament website, maintained by Richard Palliser, www.swyoungmasters.co.uk. Special thanks to Alec Webster and Peter Purland for their fine organisation.

Rohan Churm always looked the likely winner of the FIDE-rated event, though Timothy Woodward managed to keep pace with him. Final standings:

1-2 Rohan Churm, Timothy Woodward 8½/11 (£200 each) 3 Thomas Rendle 8/11 4 Krunal Kahar 7/11 5-12 Karl Frederik Ekeberg (Norway), Chetan Deva, Silje Bjerke (Norway), Andrew Bigg, Thomas Nixon, Rafe Martyn (Belgium), Oliver Cooley, Ezra Lutton 6½ Best unrated: Bobby Payne, Julian Winkworth 6/11 (£90 each)

Ron Banwell MSO Masters (and Commonwealth Championships)
18-27 August

Penteala Harikrishna, Commonwealth Champion Photo: John Saunders

The 2nd Ron Banwell MSO Masters this year doubled with the Commonwealth Championship and was held under the aegis of the 5th Mind Sports Olympiad at South Bank University, Wandsworth Road, SW London, from August 18th-27th 2001. The tournament was principally funded by the BCF. When Ron Banwell died he left a substantial bequest to the BCF. Part of this money was used to fund the tournament.

The tournament was a 10-round Swiss, with GM and IM opportunities, directed by Stewart Reuben on behalf of the London Chess Association. As it happened, the 15-year-old Indian, Penteala Harikrishna chalked up his third and final grandmaster norm without so much as pushing a pawn in anger. How so? Via the oracular voice of Stewart Reuben - the tournament director pointed out that a norm in an Olympiad counts as a round robin. This meant that the young man's third GM norm when qualifying for the World Championship in the Asian Championship was good enough to give him the title. Nobody in India had realised this. It is not surprising that Stewart knows the rule so well - it is there in black and white on page 100 of the new, second edition of Stewart's book The Chess Organiser's Handbook.

The tournament had 70 competitors, with a very cosmopolitan entry from round the world. There was a particularly strong entry from the Indian sub-continent, with three established grandmasters, Dibyendu Barua, Abhijit Kunte and Praveen Thipsay, leading the challenge. One grandmaster, Sapar Batyrov, came all the way from Turkmenistan, another from Scotland, Colin McNab, and just one from England, Neil McDonald. There was one grandmaster from Greece with a very unfamiliar name - Dimitri Anagnostopoulos. The face was very familiar, though, as it belonged to the GM formerly known as Dimitri Agnos, who grew up in London and was educated at Oxford University. This name-changing business is becoming an epidemic - what people will do to stop their opponents looking up their games on ChessBase.

Jovanka Houska, Commonwealth Women's Champion Photo: John Saunders

The tournament was extremely hard-fought, and noticeably more than the British Championship which had preceded it. It couldn't have been the incentive of the money prizes which were very much more modest than at Scarborough. The Indian contingent did indeed dominate for much of the event, but there were some excellent performances by English players in the last few rounds. Harikrishna seemed to be cruising home to first place, but then ran into the no-nonsense approach of Graeme Buckley in round 8. A grotesque blunder ended the game in favour of the English IM. Buckley was then up-ended by Agnos in round 9. Finally, in round 10 (and there were hardly any quick draws in this tournament), Harikrishna squared the circle by beating Agnos. That left Harikrishna and Buckley (who had beaten GM Kunte) together on 7½/10, along with Danny Gormally who had finished strongly with 2½/3, beating McDonald and McNab and drawing with Harikrishna in round 9. Sum of Progressive Scores was used to split the three scores, both for the Mind Sports Olympiad and the Commonwealth Championship. That left Harikrishna holding the gold medal, Buckley the silver and Gormally the bronze. Jovanka Houska lost her last game but had already secured the Commonwealth Women's Championship as well as a full IM norm. In the process she beat GM Dibyendu Barua, but her prowess is such that grandmaster scalps can almost be taken for granted.

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Juniors Rampant In UK Chess Challenge Terafinal

by Mike Basman

The British Land UK Chess Challenge, held on the weekend of 25th and 26th August, ended in high drama.

The 32 top players, survivors of the original 50,000 competitors, were playing for the top prize of £1,000, with £500 for the top girl player and £500 for the top under 11.

Alexandra Wilson Photo: John Saunders

The expected favourites were the older players in the 14 to 18 age range but they did not have it all their own way. In round 3, defending champion Lorin D'Costa struck a blow for the "veterans" with a closely fought win over 10 year old prodigy David Howell. This, however, was not the end of the matter. In round 4, 12 year old Simon Fowler from Shropshire defeated one of the favourites, Jonathan Lappage, in a sensational game. Next, another 10 year old, Dana Hawrami from Essex, emerged from the pack and started rampaging through the senior ranks. By the last round there were two 10-year-olds on the top boards, David Howell facing 18-year-old Matthew Broomfield and Dana Hawrami paired against the champion, Lorin D'Costa. Broomfield found he could make no progress in his game and agreed to split the point, leaving Lorin, who had secured comfortable advantage in the opening, with a seemingly easy path to victory.

At this point things went haywire. D'Costa, perhaps already totting up his likely winnings, suddenly found his king driven into the open and at the mercy of Hawrami's queen and rook. Only a couple of moves would be needed to set up the mate and, realising this, D'Costa slumped in his chair, his ears turning a dark shade of red. But Hawrami did not stop to think and impetuously pushed out a series of moves, after which D'Costa recovered, survived and went on to clinch the win and the title.

Lorin D'Costa wins his second Terafinal Photo: John Saunders

So, a memorable and exciting end to the championship, a second victory in a row for Lorin D'Costa from Hertfordshire, and a tournament in which many young players demonstrated their strength and promise. Results in the results supplement

A cracking last round game. The white king runs amok in the middle of the board, and under time pressure, black misses the win by 50 … fxe6+! Thereafter the tables are turned and the errant monarch himself assists in the mating attack.

Paul Plant (Grade 146)
Alexandra Wilson (Grade 133)

1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 g3 Bg7 4 Bg2 d5 5 Nc3 dxc4 6 Nf3 0-0 7 0-0 c6 8 e4 Nbd7 9 Qc2 c5 10 d5 Ng4 11 h3 Nge5 12 Nxe5 Nxe5 13 f4 Nd3 14 Rb1 Bd7 15 a3 Bd4+ 16 Kh2 b5 17 Bd2 b4? 18 Ne2 b3 19 Qxc4 Nxb2 20 Qxb3 Rb8 21 Qa2 Bg7 22 Nc3 Bxc3 23 Bxc3 Na4 24 Rxb8 Qxb8 25 Be5 Qc8 26 Rc1 Qa6 27 Bf1 Qa5 28 Qc2 Rc8 29 Bc3 Nxc3 30 Qxc3 Qa4 31 Qe3 Bb5 32 Bxb5 Qxb5 33 Kg2 a5 34 Kf3 c4 35 Qc3 Qa4 36 Rb1 Qd7 37 g4 Qc7 38 Rb5 Ra8 39 a4 h5 40 Ke3 hxg4 41 hxg4 Qd7 42 f5 Qc7 43 fxg6 Qg3+ 44 Kd4 (diagram)

44…e5+ 45 dxe6 e.p. Rd8+ 46 Rd5 Qf2+ 47 Qe3 Qb2+ 48 Kxc4? Rc8+ 49 Rc5 Qb4+ 50 Kd5 Rd8+? (50…fxe6+ wins) 51 Ke5 Qb2+ 52 Qc3 Qh2+ 53 Kf6 Qh8+ 54 Ke7! Qh4+ 55 g5 Rb8 56 exf7 mate.

D'COSTA'S ROCKY ROAD TO VICTORY

Dana Hawrami
Lorin D'Costa

After gaining an early advantage black has dissipated most of it. His next move makes things far worse: 39 … Bxd4? 40 Rd8+! Kg7 41 Qxd4+ Kh6. Now white's simplest route to victory is 42 Qf4+ Kg7 43 Qe5+ Kh6 44 Rd4! threatening check mate by 45 Rh4++. Black suffers fatally from his out of play queen. Instead white continued 42 Rd7? Qxb3 43 Qf6 Qe6 and black went on to win the game. The next UK Chess Challenge will be starting in January 2002. Entry forms will be going out to every school in the country in October, 2001 and will also be available on our web site www.ukchesschallenge.com. A booklet containing all the results of the Gigafinal, plus photographs and biographies of leading players, is available from UK Chess Challenge, 7 Billockby Close, Chessington, Surrey, KT9 2ED at £3.45 post free. Make cheques payable to UK Chess Challenge. Further details from Mike Basman 07715 041320.

Terence Chapman Grand Prix

by Leonard Barden

GM Julian Hodgson is poised to take the lead in the race for the £5,000 Terence Chapman Grand Prix, following a hectic August where he scored 5/5 maximums at Thanet and Hereford. His rival GM Keith Arkell won at Blackpool, and both went close in the Smith & Williamson British Championship. See points table below, or full scores on the Grand Prix page.

Hodgson's total includes a low score from Southend earlier in the year, which can be discarded if he gets a better result elsewhere. So the four-times British Champion and two-time Grand Prix winner takes the long road to Scotland this weekend and the BP Amoco-sponsored Grangemouth Premier. There a 4/5 total would translate into 16/20, 193.3/200, and the Grand Prix lead.

Both Hodgson and Arkell have 99/100 GP scores from minor events so the battle will be decided by their performances in 'Elite' events with strong fields or high prize funds.

If Hodgson fails at Grangemouth, he will try again next weekend in Leek, Staffordshire, where the Britannia Building Society offers a £500 first prize. Probable or confirmed Elite events still to come are Monarch Assurance Isle of Man (end-September), Leeds British Rapidplay, Islands Insurance Guernsey and Bury St Edmunds (October), Newcastle, Glasgow, Kilkenny and Scarborough (November). The Terence Chapman Grand Prix 2001 ends on 16 December.

The final round at Hereford:

Julian Hodgson
Ameet Ghasi
Hereford Open (Rd 5), 27.08.2001

1 d4 Nf6
"I expected him to play 1...g6 to prevent the Tromp" (Hodgson)
2 Bg5 Ne4 3 Bf4 c5 4 f3 Qa5+ 5 c3 Nf6 6 d5 Qb6 7 Bc1 e6 8 c4 Bd6?!
A move twice used by GM Luke McShane, including a game with Hodgson at the Mind Sports Open, 1998 8 ..exd5 9 cxd5 c4 or 9...d6
9 Nc3 a6 10 e4 Qc7 (diagram)

11 Nh3! 0-0
Here Black had a long think. If he takes the material, Hodgson planned 11 ..Bxh2 12 Rxh2 Qg3+ 13 Ke2 Qxh2 14 Bf4 Qh1 15 Na4! and Black is in dire straits.
12 f4 e5 13 f5
"White is strategically winning. Black has no counterplay against the king-side roller."
13 ..b5 14 g4 Ne8 15 g5 Qb6 16 Qh5 Bc7 17 Nf2 Bd8 18 Ng4 Qd6 19 Rg1 bxc4 20 Rg3 1-0
"The finish would be 20 ..g6 21 Qh6 gxf5 22 Nf6+ Bxf6 23 Rh3 and mate next move. Despite this defeat, Ameet Ghasi is one of England's most promising juniors".

The Birmingham 14-year-old won last year's British Rapidplay, has a BCF grade of 223, and missed his first IM norm by only half a point at Scarborough. Ghasi has received two of the £500 Terence Chapman Awards for England's best talents. He is currently seventh in the Grand Prix, the only player in the top dozen without a FIDE title.

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