Steve Boniface Memorial

AM playing in the Steve Boniface* Memorial at Bristol Grammar School - five rounds over three days with a time control of 90 minutes plus a 30-second increment.
My hotel, the Ibis Bristol Centre, is less than a 15-minute walk from the venue, but getting there in that short space of time means passing some striking and opulent architecture.

Bristol University

Bristol Cathedral

Bristol's wealth was built on the profits of 18th-century commerce, and yet there are people who contend the slave trade was all bad.
My tournament certainly got off to a bad start this evening when I lost a rook-and-pawn ending to international master Chris Beaumont (2264/212), costing me 1.8 Fide elo.
*Steve Boniface was a prominent English arbiter. There is a tribute to him here: http://chessarbitersassociation.co.uk/html/boniface__steve.html