2017-12-01

British Knockout Championship 2017

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.

Official site

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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