Speed Chess Championship results

The Speed Chess Championship was won by David Lettington this year, who managed (with quite a large chunk of luck) to win every game.

There were 14 competitors, split into two groups. In Group A, David and Bob Fenn both got off to flying starts, with Craig Miners in hot pursuit. If Craig had managed to beat Bob in their individual game, he would have finished as runner-up in the group.

In Group B, Matt Bunn managed to win every game, despite nearly missing the whole event because of a delayed train. The runner-up spot was a very close run thing, with Nick Allen, Matthew Gazes, Len Hammond and new member Mesut Yilmaz all in the running. In the end, Matt Gazes won his game against Nick Allen to take runner-up spot on tie-break.

In the Semi-Finals, Matt Bunn beat Bob Fenn, whilst Matt Gazes played brilliantly and got a won position aganist David Lettington, but unfortunately Matt ran out of time.

The Final was a repeat of last year and was a very exciting game, with an offbeat opening from Matt Bunn that caused lots of complications. However, once David had centralised his Rooks he managed to co-ordinate them with his light-squared Bishop into an unstoppable attack.