With Fried Mars Bars for All

For those of you into new-fangled thingamawhatsits like online chess video, Macauley Peterson's trip to the Scottish Championship should get you all a-Twitter. From the source:

www.Chess.fm/blog

The latest is a video interview with the winner, GM Arun Prasad, of Salem, India, who knocked off his friend and compatriot, GM Magesh Chandra Panchanathan in the final round to earn the GBP £1,200.00 first prize.

Next, the highest scoring Scot was an unlikely fellow, FM Iain Gourlay, the fourteenth seed, who nevertheless finished ahead of five Scottish GMs to earn the national title.

And a bonus audio interview with the young Islandic FM Gudmundur Kjartansson, who earned his first GM norm in Edinburgh during a fantastic run that included wins over GMs Prasad, Panchanathan and Colin McNab, and an exciting last round draw with GM Mark Hebden.

Och, and who dayn't be rememberin' wee Arun McPrasad? In case you were wondering, it's the OPEN Scottish Championship, so top Scot wins the title, if not the cash. While flicking through a few recent games on vacation I paused for a brief goggle at the spectacular Panchanathan-Rowson game, after the jump. Don't forget to turn off your computer engine first so you can enjoy it. I'm now surprised to find that Rowson's 13..h5 had been played before, if not in a particularly illustrious game. It looks like a Najdorf idea gone walkabout. The Kjartansson-Hebden game Macauley mentions is also worth a look.