The Finale of the 2008 British Chess Championships

The decisive game of the 2008 British Chess Championships

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[Atomrod]

It's a real bummer though that this shite rapid game gets published everywhere,while the serious tournament games get completely ignored.o well,c'est la vie..Keith. Nick, Merry Xmas and all that to you all-I might be back in Blighty for a bit around 3 Jan-maybe meet up,kill lots of your wine then see if I can defend the position after ...g6 against you :o)

[FatAndMad]

cheers, keith. To be fair though, I did do Ledger v Jones as well in another vid. Good to to see you can still hack it at 4 am though!

[amirpaca]

Therefore, I think black's move is perfectly justified (in fact, it's probably the best move he's got given the position), and given what follows from the game after g6 is played I think it can be safely said that in the starting position black is not solid by any stretch of the imagination; his position is dire already. I would be more interested in seeing how the opening went so badly.

[FatAndMad]

Amir, thank you for your numerous comments. g6 is definitely not the best move in the position. Re8, as I mention in the narrative, is the only move that keeps black afloat. You seem to have missed that this moves protects the bishop on e7.

[FatAndMad]

sorry chaps who are having problems with the audio quality, see my comments on priapus's post below. I will fix this for the next video

[furrer08]

In the start you said white had more space, even thought his pawns arent advanced? DOesnt you mean more activity? Space is a long term advantage, activity is short term, and you said black would be fine if he just managed to develop his pieces, so!?

[FatAndMad]

This is a very interesting point. More space is usually associated with further advanced pawns. However, I think that space is attached to the terrain controlled by your pieces. White's pieces controlled large swathes of the board while black's were huddled on the first two ranks. I think it's correct to say white has more space, but I would think of it as a temporary space advantage rather than a permanent one afforded by pawns. Make sense?

[priapus]

Another nicely done video... if I may suggest

so, please try boosting the audio on your

end, because even with my volume cranked to 11

your commentary still sounds sotto voce

[darkteknical]

Looks like a nice video, too bad I can't hear anything...

[njerzynek]

but I may be wrong, hehe

[njerzynek]

i thought the games were 25 mins

[karenmatthews69]

why is it so quiet?

[eisaatappaa]

I can't hear a thing /sob

[Atomrod]

Hi Nick! Just saw this for the 1st time,and your posting.Yea couldn't have played that rapid game worse.Awful opening letting his Q get to h4. To be fair to me I was out on the tiles the night b4,downing the ole rosies 'till 4am.A little daft really,but I was celebrating jointly winning the tournament,which meant we shared the prize money and the English Championship title.I've got the cup with me now in Manhattan.Stu gets most of the glory,but hey he's a nice guy and that's fine by me.

[amirpaca]

I see, that makes a lot of sense. I found this video to be very instructive on the whole. Thank you very much.