Adams, Short Tied For First Entering the Last Round
Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 6:28PM
Dennis Monokroussos

In round 10 (of 11), Michael Adams equalized with Black and a bit more against Nicholas Pert, but it finished as a draw. Thus, after Nigel Short defeated Peter Wells, the top two players in the tournament were once again the top two players on the tournament table. Both have 8 points.

Jonathan Hawkins and Gawain Jones are half a point back, having both won their games. Jones beat Summerscale with Black, while Hawkins got a bit of a gift. He was suffering for a long time in a queen and minor piece ending against David Howell, but trying too hard to squeeze something out Howell sacrificed and blundered his way into a lost queen ending.

All of the top four have played each other, so there's some serious downfloating in the final-round pairings:

Does any of you know what will happen if there's a tie for first? Maybe you can find something on the tournament site.

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