98th British Chess Championships
The 98th British Championships will take place in Sheffield from 25 July - 6 August.
This year's competition has attracted many of the top British players, including reigning champion Mickey Adams, former world title challenger Nigel Short (pictured), young talent and 2009 winner David Howell, and 2011 Commonwealth Champion Gawain Jones.
Among the women entrants, Jovanka Houska is hot favourite to take the title for the fourth year in succession.
The format is an 11 round Swiss with over 80 players taking part.
The top 30 entries:
| Name | Elo | |
| 1 | GM Adams, Michael | 2715 |
| 2 | GM Short, Nigel D | 2687 |
| 3 | GM Howell, David W L | 2625 |
| 4 | GM Jones, Gawain C B | 2606 |
| 5 | GM Pert, Nicholas | 2555 |
| 6 | GM Gordon, Stephen J | 2533 |
| 7 | GM Hebden, Mark L | 2533 |
| 8 | GM Williams, Simon K | 2528 |
| 9 | GM Conquest, Stuart C | 2519 |
| 10 | GM Gormally, Daniel W | 2519 |
| 11 | GM Wells, Peter K | 2489 |
| 12 | IM Pert, Richard G | 2459 |
| 13 | IM Hawkins, Jonathan | 2457 |
| 14 | IM Palliser, Richard J D | 2454 |
| 15 | FM Zhou, Yang-Fan | 2444 |
| 16 | IM Hunt, Adam C | 2436 |
| 17 | IM Ledger, Andrew J | 2435 |
| 18 | IM Houska, Jovanka | 2418 |
| 19 | GM Summerscale, Aaron P | 2415 |
| 20 | IM Ansell, Simon T | 2410 |
| 21 | IM Rendle, Thomas E | 2386 |
| 22 | IM Buckley, Graeme N | 2380 |
| 23 | IM Bates, Richard A | 2373 |
| 24 | IM Kolbus, Dietmar | 2335 |
| 25 | FM Eggleston, David J | 2318 |
| 26 | IM Beaumont, Chris R | 2313 |
| 27 | FM Webb, Laurence E | 2306 |
| 28 | FM Griffiths, Ryan Rhys | 2301 |
| 29 | FM Constantinou, Peter | 2292 |
| 30 | IM Rudd, Jack | 2278 |
Games start at 2:15 every day, and commentary is provided by IM Andrew Martin. The only rest day is on 31 July.
Coverage and more information is available at the official website.
