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🏆 British Knockout Championship (2019)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Michael Adams, Luke McShane, David Howell, Gawain Jones, Nicholas Pert, Brandon Clarke, Marcus R Harvey, Andrew P Horton

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
British Knockout Championship (2019)

The 5th British Knockout Championship was an 8-player KO held at the Olympia Conference Centre in Kensington, London, England, 1-7 December 2019, as part of the London Chess Classic Festival. Five invited players and three from the British Knockout Championship (Preliminary) (2019) qualifying event participated. The quarterfinals consisted of 2 Classical games (each worth 6 points) and if necessary 2 Rapid games (4 pts) and an Armageddon game. The semifinals consisted of 2 Classical games (6 pts), 2 Rapid games (4 pts) and 4 Blitz games (2 pts). The final consisted of 4 Rapid games (4 pts) and 6 Blitz games (2 pts). In the semifinals, all the games had to be played even if there was a winner after the two Classical games. In the final, all 10 games had to be played. Time control: 130 + 30' in Classical, 15 + 10' in Rapid and 5 + 3' in Blitz. Prize fund: £42,000, with a first prize of £10,000. Tournament director: Malcolm Pein. Chief arbiter: Lara Barnes.

Michael Adams won the final match with 18/28 points:

 Quarterfinals Dec 1     Semifinals December 2-4       Final December 6-7
Howell   63 --  -   9
Horton   03 --  -   3
                        Howell   63 02 0211 -  15
                        Jones    03 42 2011 -  13
Jones    63 --  -   9
Pert     03 --  -   3
                                                     Adams   2244 101121  18
                                                     Howell  2200 121101  10
Adams    33 22  1  11
Harvey   33 22  0  10
                        Adams    33 04 2102 -  15
                        McShane  33 40 0120 -  13
McShane  63 --  -   9
Clarke   03 --  -   3
There was no match for 3rd place. Instead, the spectators witnessed two rapid 'No Castling' exhibition games: McShane vs G Jones, 2019 and G Jones vs McShane, 2019 (see https://www.londonchessclassic.com/...)

Official site: https://www.londonchessclassic.com/...
Regulations: https://www.londonchessclassic.com/...
Schedule: https://www.londonchessclassic.com/...
Chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t...
TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew...

 page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 39  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Adams vs M R Harvey  ½-½312019British Knockout ChampionshipC11 French
2. D Howell vs A P Horton  1-0752019British Knockout ChampionshipA17 English
3. Adams vs M R Harvey  1-0712019British Knockout ChampionshipC11 French
4. M R Harvey vs Adams  ½-½612019British Knockout ChampionshipA06 Reti Opening
5. Adams vs M R Harvey  ½-½532019British Knockout ChampionshipC03 French, Tarrasch
6. G Jones vs N Pert  ½-½292019British Knockout ChampionshipB31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation
7. B Clarke vs McShane  ½-½362019British Knockout ChampionshipC65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense
8. M R Harvey vs Adams  ½-½522019British Knockout ChampionshipA06 Reti Opening
9. A P Horton vs D Howell  ½-½442019British Knockout ChampionshipA09 Reti Opening
10. N Pert vs G Jones  0-1592019British Knockout ChampionshipE60 King's Indian Defense
11. McShane vs B Clarke  1-0432019British Knockout ChampionshipB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
12. G Jones vs D Howell 0-1652019British Knockout ChampionshipC02 French, Advance
13. Adams vs McShane  ½-½302019British Knockout ChampionshipC67 Ruy Lopez
14. D Howell vs G Jones  ½-½362019British Knockout ChampionshipA15 English
15. McShane vs Adams  ½-½312019British Knockout ChampionshipC89 Ruy Lopez, Marshall
16. Adams vs McShane  1-0592019British Knockout ChampionshipA00 Uncommon Opening
17. G Jones vs D Howell  ½-½802019British Knockout ChampionshipB10 Caro-Kann
18. McShane vs Adams  1-0452019British Knockout ChampionshipC69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation
19. D Howell vs G Jones  ½-½512019British Knockout ChampionshipE63 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation
20. D Howell vs G Jones  0-1622019British Knockout ChampionshipA05 Reti Opening
21. Adams vs McShane  ½-½602019British Knockout ChampionshipB06 Robatsch
22. McShane vs Adams  0-1162019British Knockout ChampionshipC53 Giuoco Piano
23. Adams vs McShane  1-0572019British Knockout ChampionshipC53 Giuoco Piano
24. G Jones vs D Howell  ½-½352019British Knockout ChampionshipC42 Petrov Defense
25. McShane vs Adams  1-0362019British Knockout ChampionshipC68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange
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Kibitzer's Corner
Dec-14-19
Premium Chessgames Member		  Tabanus: Not to be confused with the British Championship (2019).

This page and one more is not on the New Tournaments page. But they've sneaked in to the Tournament Index list.

Dec-23-19
Premium Chessgames Member		  Sargon: <Tabanus: The one missing game (rapid): [...]>

Thanks, Tab. I was finally able to add <Howell v. Adams, Rd. 3.4>—the missing game you had posted to this thread (post since removed)—by using the "force" option with the gameloader script:

D Howell vs Adams, 2019

It was being flagged as a duplicate, because it had similar/identical moves (beyond move 30!) to <Howell v. Adams, Rd. 3.2>:

D Howell vs Adams, 2019

This is a very rare circumstance, obviously, but <all's well that ends well>, I guess...

Dec-23-19
Premium Chessgames Member		  Tabanus: <Sargon> Of course! If it doesn't take too long time :)

Btw I think TWIC found a good or at least usable name for this series (CG has only 1), "British KO Championship".

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