David Howell
David Howell
David Wei Liang Howellis an English chess grandmaster and British champion in 2009, 2013 and 2014. He is the youngest chess Grandmaster in the United Kingdom, a title he earned when he came second during the 35th Rilton Cup in Stockholm on 5 January 2007 when he was 16. The previous record holder, Luke McShane, was six months older when he became a grandmaster...
ProfessionChess Player
Date of Birth14 November 1990
chaos deals five handle minutes surrounds today
Chaos surrounds him out there. I had to handle it for five minutes at the end today and I was frustrated. He probably deals with that every day.
david five four good great nice strong win
David and I are good friends, so it should be nice out there tomorrow. This is a strong field, so it would be a great win if I can get it - but any one of four or five players, if they get hot, still has a chance.
affect anyone beat crowd five fun good great match par played shoot six struggle
I've never played with him actually but he is a great player. I'm just going to have to go out and shoot a good score. You can't look at it in match play terms, but if you get to five or six under par then anyone is going to struggle to beat you. I know the crowd will be with him but that's not going to affect me. It'll make it all the more fun if I win.
delighted dropped happy hit poor shots slightly
I am delighted really. The two dropped shots I just hit poor pitches. That was slightly frustrating but you have to be happy with 63.
chaotic
It was more chaotic than I thought it was going to be,
touch wait
It's going to be touch and go. We will have to wait and see.
concerned good guess happen hit miraculous shot slight surprise worry
Going to 16, you always worry that he's going to do the miraculous shot and make a 2, and I guess there was a slight surprise that something good didn't happen for him. I was concerned that he was going to hit a 3-wood to about 15 feet, which would have made things difficult.
birdie settled
A birdie at the 10th really settled the nerves.
middle stern
It is a pretty stern test, ... You have to keep it down the middle because of the rough.
assumed came defend form luke man necessary paul pick
It came as a big surprise, to be honest, ... We all assumed Luke (England's highest-ranked player) would pick Paul to defend the title, but Luke didn't think that was necessary and thought the man on form would be the pick.
player satisfied
I'm a better player than I thought I ever would be and I'm still not satisfied and I think I can be better.
fabulous highs
I'm not a person who has fabulous highs or unbelievable lows,
nice playing tournament
It is nice playing in a tournament when you are one of the better players.
ambitious champions events sort stuff tournament winning
I'm very ambitious and winning events like this HSBC Champions tournament is the sort of stuff I want to be doing,