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Bristol Winter Congress 2010

The 6th Winter Congress took place at Filton sports & Leisure Centre during the chilly weekend of 3rd - 5th December 2010. Entries were hit by the weather as some were unable to attend and withdrew.

Open Section - Chris Beaumont 4½/5 Won the Open Section quite comfortably as he won playing both colours of the accelerated dragon. In the final round he played a much improved Megan Owens who was fresh from her recent trip over in Greece where she had been competing in the World Youth Championships. Megan hung on for a draw to earn herself the grading prize. On board two John Waterfield & Simon Greely fought it out for 2nd spot and a crack at next year's British Championship's - Simon in a passive position decided to give up the exchange in a last ditch attempt to deliver mate on g2 and was unable to hang on in the ensuing complications.

Download All 21 Games from the Open Section

Major Section - Jody Johnson 4/5 played some enterprising chess as he led the way in the Major Section. There were many favourites to win this section, including Bob Radford, Mike Meadows, Duncan Macarthur to name a few.

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Minor Section - Winning this section for the 1st time was 11 year old Alec Watson 4½/5, but somehow I don't think it will be his last ! Finding himself out in front and needing a win in the final round to claim 1st place outright the pressure was certainly on this youngster. With a crowd of onlookers becoming interested in the position Alec enticed his opponent into taking a poisoned pawn which won him a Bishop which proved decisive as shortly after he managed the win he was after. The game mentioned is well worth playing through below.