{"id":928,"date":"2013-02-04T12:18:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T12:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=928"},"modified":"2016-01-18T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:39:08","slug":"kidlington-chess-congress-2013-points-make-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"Kidlington Chess Congress 2013: points make prizes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

First weekend in February? Yes. Exeter Hall, Kidlington? Yes. That’ll be the Kidlington Chess Congress, then? Yes. My fifth year, in fact: previous tournaments I’ve played: 2009<\/a>, 2010<\/a>, 2011<\/a> and 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update 5 February 2013<\/strong>: I’ve uploaded my game commentary and analysis<\/a> for this year’s games.<\/p>\n

\"Round<\/a>

Round 4 in progress on Sunday morning, 03.02.2013<\/p><\/div>\n

Playing once again with the stronger players in the Under-180 section, my first round match got off to a slight false start: my opponent hadn’t turned up. In fact, two players (both with the same surname: “They’re brothers”, said someone) were both missing. I was re-paired with the person waiting for the other<\/em> brother after the tournament controller contacted the brothers and discovered travel problems or similar. My revised opponent and I moved to a spare board, an interesting novelty for which was that we got to play using one of these new-fangled digital chess clocks:<\/p>\n

\"Digital<\/a>

Digital chess clock<\/p><\/div>\n

Since I was a child, I’ve only ever used the standard, analogue, wind-up clocks:<\/p>\n

\"Conventional<\/a>

Conventional chess clock<\/p><\/div>\n

How exciting. \ud83d\ude09 (For what it’s worth, the digital chess clocks have some advantages: they allow more accurate timing for a start and also permit some more creative time controls, such as a time increment for every move played. They do need batteries, though.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, on with the show…<\/p>\n