British Small Board Championship: Results 1998

Tournament Name
British Small Board
Tournament Date
Sun, 15 Nov 1998

The 1998 British Small Board Go Championship took place in Milton Community Centre on Sunday 15th November 1998. It was part of the Cambridge Junior Chess and Go Club's annual congress. I think it was a great success, but then I organised it. I think that other people enjoyed it too. Michael Charles eventually won. We used the following handicap system which was my recollection of the official BGA system. Actually, I now think that the official BGA system has an even games as 9 komi, and then follow the pattern here. The general consensus was that this system favours the stronger player. I would recommend the system that Cambridge Go Club uses for its end of term tournaments instead.

Grade diff.HandicapKomi
016
113
210
326
423
520
636
733
. . .. . .. . .

And the obvious pattern continues. Time limits were 25 minutes. The tournament turned out to be a handicapped Swiss.

No.NameGrade Round 1Round 2Round 3 Round 4Round 5Round 6 Score
1David Ward3 dan 2-4+3+ 11+10+5-4
2Alan Thornton2 dan 1+7+5+ 13+6+3-5
3Alex Selby3 dan 4+5-1- 7+8+2+4
4Baron Allday1 dan 3-1-18+ 8-12+6+3
5Michael Charles2 dan 6+3+2- 12+11+1+5
6Simon Goss2 dan 5-10+8+ 16+2-4-3
7Francis Weaver6 kyu 8+2-10- 3-15+9-2
8Tim Hunt1 kyu 7-9+6- 4+3-12+3
9William Brooks13 kyu 10-8-14+ 20+13-7+3
10Frank Visser4 kyu 9+6-7+ 19+1-16-3
11Herman Tittel16 kyu 12+16+20+ 1-5-13+4
12Nicola Hurden16 kyu 11-14+15+ 5-4-8-2
13Aaron Dixson22 kyu 14+17+19+ 2-9+11-4
14Sam Wakeford20 kyu 13-12-9- 18+17+19-2
15Natasha Boddy27 kyu 16-20=12- 17+7-18-
16Shawn Hearn24 kyu 15+11-17+ 6-19+10+4
17Kaley Wilson34 kyu 18+13-16- 15-14-20+2
18Tom Cane29 kyu 17-19-4- 14-20-15+1
19Lucie Elliott34 kyu 20+18+13- 10-16-14+3
20Elizabeth Wayte32 kyu 19-15=11- 9-18+17-

Michael Charles and Alan Thornton were tied on 5/6 at the end. As a tie break they had a play-off with 10 minutes on the clock and Michael won.

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