British Championship 2016 - Day 2

Some good news from Bournemouth to report today - I could see the moves on the display board yesterday. It wasn't entirely plain sailing for the top seeds; Jones' game is today's puzzle, and, whilst it worked out in the end, I think from his expression that Adams overlooked that his knight would be trapped after 41... Rxd8!?.

First things first, and yesterday's puzzle. I left you with an endgame of rooks and opposite-coloured bishops where, surprisingly, that great endgame artist Keith Arkell missed the same win twice over.

Yesterday seemed to be more a day of blunders than brilliancies, so perhaps we'll have to wait until the rating differentials come down. At the moment, my choices for Game of the Day are largely limited to archetypal GM vs amateur encounters (with an honourable mention to Jack Rudd for taking down Tamas Fodor), and this time I've done what I almost did yesterday, and chosen a violent win by Danny Gormally. Black's opening looks a little too homebrew, White gets far, far too much play for a poisoned pawn, and the result is a rout:

And lastly, today's puzzle. There were plenty of opportunities to poke fun at players much stronger than your author (Batchelor-Smith, Talbot-Golding and especially Waddington-Harvey, if you're feeling sadistic) but instead let's have a look at something more complicated.

G. Jones - P. Asenov - Black to Play

Earlier on, Black sacrificed a pawn for good compensation, but White was able to gradually neutralise it. However his last couple of moves weren't the best, and 34. Rc5? gives Black a tactical chance. But you've only got two minutes left...