Tiger’s modesty
Saturday 23rd October 2010, 2:29PM BST.
Title contenders Tiger Hillarp-Persson (left) and Nick Pert settle down for their board one clash on the penultimate day of competition. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 1042886)
HE MAY be a triple winner of the Intertrust Guernsey International Chess Festival, but Tiger Hillarp-Persson is modest when it comes to his current form.
Yesterday, he took on the tournament’s top-ranked player, English grandmaster Nick Pert, in an eagerly-anticipated battle at the Peninsula.
And before that encounter, Hillarp-Persson spoke about how the week so far had gone and how this year’s event compared to previous editions.
‘I am reasonably happy with the way I have played,’ he said.
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