The 2017 British Knockout Championship is an 8-player knockout taking place alongside the London Chess Classic in the Hilton London Olympia and Olympia Conference Centre from 1-9 December.
The defending champion Nigel Short and David Howell are among the players fighting for a £20,000 first prize, with £10,000 for the runner-up, £5,000 for losing semi-finalists and £2,500 for losing quarter-finalists.
Time control: The quarter-finals and semi-finals are 2-game matches with 90 minutes for all moves and a 30-second increment from move one. If the matches are tied two 10+2 blitz games are played, then an Armageddon game, where White has 6 minutes to Black's 4 with a 2-second increment per move from move 61 but a draw counts as a win for Black. The final consists of 8 games, 4 classical games with 90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 minutes to the end of the game and a 30-second increment and 4 rapid games (15min + 10sec). Classical games count double. Tiebreaks, if required, are the same as before.
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Schedule: (UTC)
Round 1/4 final / Game 1 Dec 1, 2017 11:00
Round 1/4 final / Game 2 Dec 1, 2017 16:00
Round 1/4 final / Game 3 Dec 1, 2017 20:30
Round 1/4 final / Game 4 Dec 1, 2017 21:10
Round 1/4 final / Game 5 Dec 1, 2017 21:50
Round 1/2 final / Game 1 Dec 2, 2017 16:30
Round 1/2 final / Game 2 Dec 3, 2017 10:00
Round 1/2 final / Game 3 Dec 3, 2017 16:30
Round 1/2 final / Game 4 Dec 3, 2017 17:10
Round 1/2 final / Game 5 Dec 3, 2017 17:50
Round Final / Game 1 Dec 4, 2017 16:30
Round Final / Game 2 Dec 5, 2017 16:30
Round Final / Game 3 Dec 7, 2017 16:30
Round Final / Game 4 Dec 8, 2017 16:30
Round Final / Game 5 Dec 9, 2017 11:50
Round Final / Game 6 Dec 9, 2017 13:00
Round Final / Game 7 Dec 9, 2017 14:10
Round Final / Game 8 Dec 9, 2017 15:20
Round Final / Game 9 Dec 9, 2017 16:30
Round Final / Game 10 Dec 9, 2017 17:10
Round Final / Game 11 Dec 9, 2017 17:50
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