He writes:
"Russell slowly outplayed me in this game (no surprises there). I spent a lot of time early, although it turns out my worries at that stage were largely phantoms. I did come up with a plan to hold White up, and if I had followed up my ...f6 with ...e5 as intended I would have got a reasonable position. Instead I relaxed thinking I could play ...e5 whenever I wanted, and Russell was able to get a complete grip with exactly the kind of crushing space advantage he loves. Also I was out of time. I was reduced to 3 ranks and waiting. I tried to tell myself it was like a delayed hippo with dynamic potential, but I didn't really believe my own propaganda. Surprisingly Russell spent all his time advantage enjoying his space advantage with a lot of manoeuvring back and forth but no decisive breakthrough (yet). I was slightly encouraged to achieve time parity (both players increment only), whilst still clinging on to dear life. Interestingly through this entire phase Stockfish tells me that I could have played ...e5 at various times as a freeing move, so there was some dynamic potential. I was tempted but could never see the tactical justification.
Anyway, with no time anyone can make a mistake and surprisingly it was Russell rather than me. I defended a loose pawn indirectly, Russell thought I was defending it with an (ineffective) counter-threat. The phony counter-threat was just a lucky coincidence. He took the pawn and basically (sadly) this means I won through a one move blunder."
Philip Rossiter also lost for the first time on Thursday, against Phillip Coghini, but such is his dominance, he still leads the B grade by a whole point.
Grade C has so many unplayed games, it is impossible to talk about a leader.
Grade D has seen many interesting games. I particularly like the style of young newcomer Josh Langford, who seems to do rather well out of gambit lines, but doesn't always convert his winning positions.
Hamish Leask now shares the lead with Karthik Konakanchi.
Week 5
Sellen 0-1 Ker
Timergazi 0-1 Croad
Nyberg 0-1 Jackson
Nijman 0-1 Dive
Chen 0-1 Stoeveken
Barraza 1/2-1/2 Brockway
Farrington 0-1 Mullan
Benitez 0-1 Rossiter
Coghini 1-0 Aldridge
Stracy 1-0 Forlong-Ford
Sole 1-0 Rabina
Thorpe 0-1 Day
Dixon 0-1 Wight
Leask 1-0 Tagos
Kibblewhite 1-0 Theodosiou
Hall 1-0 De Briey
Zhao 0-1 Bennett
Asher 0-1 Darr
Langford 0-1 Konakanchi K
Proctor 0-1 Konakanchi P
Carroll 0-1 Stannard
Week 6
Nyberg 0-1 Sellen
Jackson 0-1 Croad
Dive 0-1 Forster
Perry 0-1 Timergazi
Ker 1-0 Nijman
Farrington 0-1 Benitez
Aldridge 1/2-1/2 Chen
Mullan 1/2-1/2 Brockway
Rossiter 0-1 Coghini
Dixon 1-0 Rabina
Day 1-0 Sole
Leask 1/2-1/2 Kibblewhite
Darr 0-1 Konakanchi K
Tagos 1/2-1/2 Hall
Bennett 1-0 Konakanchi P
Jacobsen 1-0 Langford
Theodosiou 0-1 Stannard
De Briey 1-0 Proctor
Zhao 1-0 Carroll
A grade
No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 1 Dive, Russell 2434 4 * 1 1 0 1 1 2 Ker, Anthony 2489 4 0 * 1 1 1 1 3 Nijman, Brian 2146 3 0 0 * 1 1 1 4 Croad, Nic 2393 3 * 1 1 1 5 Timergazi, Layla 2158 3 0 0 * ½ 1 1 ½ 6 Jackson, Ross 2020 2 0 0 ½ * ½ 1 7 Perry, Roger 2124 2 0 0 * 1 1 8 Forster, Bill 2093 1.5 1 0 0 ½ * 9 Sellen, Ian 2056 1.5 0 0 0 ½ 0 * 1 10 Nyberg, Michael 2101 0 0 0 0 0 0 *
B grade
No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 1 Rossiter, Philip 1978 5 * ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 2 Mullan, Brett 1800 4 ½ * 1 ½ 0 1 1 3 Benitez, Edgar 1809 4 0 * 1 0 1 1 1 4 Coghini, Phillip 1888 3 1 * 1 0 1 5 Aldridge, Alan 1936 3 ½ 0 0 0 * ½ 1 1 6 Brockway, Andrew 1899 2.5 ½ 1 * ½ ½ 7 Chen, Wei Kai 1813 2 1 ½ * ½ 0 8 Barraza, Jesse 1890 2 0 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ * 9 Stoeveken, Peter 1849 1.5 0 0 0 1 * ½ 10 Farrington, Lawrence 1838 1 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ *
C grade
No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 1 Wight, Joshua 1609 3 * 1 0 1 1 2 Sole, Michael 1727 3 * 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 Day, Fabian 1784 2 0 1 * 1 0 4 Forlong-Ford, Colwyn 1738 2 1 * 1 0 0 5 Thorpe, Richard 1632 2 1 0 0 * 0 1 6 Wevers, Alexis 1654 2 1 0 * 1 7 Winter, Ryan 1711 2 1 * 1 8 Dixon, Hamish 1697 2 0 1 0 * 1 9 Rabina, Romeo 1767 1 0 1 0 * 10 Stracy, Don 1737 1 0 0 1 0 0 *
D grade
No Name Loc Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 Leask, Hamish 1570 4.5 0:½ 8:½ 5:1 2:1 3:1 6:½ 2 Konakanchi, Karthik 1504 4.5 18:1 0:½ 4:1 1:0 7:1 8:1 3 Tagos, Bernardo 1483 4 5:1 0:½ 11:1 7:1 1:0 4:½ 4 Hall, Nathan 1278 4 0:½ 20:1 2:0 10:1 9:1 3:½ 5 Jacobsen-Grocott, Josiah 1238 4 3:0 14:1 1:0 12:1 11:+ 7:1 6 Kibblewhite, Daniel 1400 4 16:1 9:1 7:0 0:½ 13:1 1:½ 7 Langford, Joshua 800 3 0:1 13:1 6:1 3:0 2:0 5:0 8 Darr, Samuel 1444 3 19:½ 1:½ 0:½ 0:½ 14:1 2:0 9 De Briey, Aurian 1549 3 15:1 6:0 0:½ 0:½ 4:0 20:1 10 Bennett, Sarah 1427 3 0:½ 11:0 0:½ 4:0 18:1 12:1 11 Benitez, Ric 1566 2.5 0:½ 10:1 3:0 13:½ 5:- 0:½ 12 Konakanchi, Pramodh 1106 2.5 17:0 0:½ 15:1 5:0 20:1 10:0 13 Theodosiou, Andreas 1493 2.5 14:1 7:0 16:1 11:½ 6:0 15:0 14 Asher, Bruce 1258 2.5 13:0 5:0 20:1 18:1 8:0 0:½ 15 Stannard, Bobby 1369 2.5 9:0 0:½ 12:0 20:0 21:1 13:1 16 Nagrecha, Prashant 899 2 6:0 0:1 13:0 0:½ 0:½ 0:0 17 He, Caleb 1413 2 12:1 0:½ 0:½ 0:0 0:0 0:0 18 Zhao, Aiden 1279 2 2:0 0:½ 0:½ 14:0 10:0 21:1 19 He, Paul 1142 1.5 8:½ 0:½ 0:½ 0:0 0:0 0:0 20 Proctor, Matthew 1478 1.5 0:½ 4:0 14:0 15:1 12:0 9:0 21 Carroll, Lewis 1 0:½ 0:½ 0: 0: 15:0 18:0
Not sure if you are aware but I have been unable to see any of the games since the switch to the kvchess widget. Is anybody else seeing the same issue?
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DeleteYes I'm having problems too. I can only upload and view games in Internet Explorer, not in Chrome or Firefox. Have you tried using IE?
DeleteI don't say this is ideal, in fact I hate using IE myself.
I've had a look round for an alternative to kvchess, but I haven't found one yet. If anybody knows of one, I would be very grateful.
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Have i tried using IE? No, not since I downloaded Chrome.
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