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U16 Olympiad Hungary - robin moore - 11-12-2014
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Good luck to the Scotland squad of Murad Abdulla, Lennart Koehn, Declan Shafi, Euan Gray and Anna Milton who are taking part in the U16 Olympiad in Hungary. I make it 54 teams from 38 countries with Scotland seeded 47th.
Play starts on Saturday and team captain Calum MacQuinn (!) will be known as the Mighty Quinn if we come back with the trophy.
Hope everyone has a great time.
Re: U16 Olympiad Hungary - Andy Howie - 12-12-2014
Might have to call him Manfred...
Re: U16 Olympiad Hungary - robin moore - 12-12-2014
A bit of background to this event.
Andrew McClement, Shivan Murdochy, Ali Roy and Sam Gregory went out to Turkey to play in this event in 2011 and came back saying how many new friends they had met, what a good event it was but as they had only four players and not five, they felt they were being consistently outprepped. It didn't stop them having a good result though.
Based on this advice we took five players to the event in Istanbul 2012 (Ian McDonald, Murad Abdulla, Andrew McCusker, Daniel Deary and Zak Roy). It definitely made a difference to have that extra player, not only because someone could take a rest if needed but you could be..ahem.."creative" in your team selection in order to try and disrupt your normally stronger opponents prep. We did well again there I felt and had a great time in Istanbul.
This event looks easily the strongest yet, certainly by quantity of countries and teams competing.
Re: U16 Olympiad Hungary - Alan Jelfs - 12-12-2014
I see that Chithambaram Aravindh IM, the star of the Commonwealth Championships, is board 3(!) for India.
Re: U16 Olympiad Hungary - Alex Gillies - 13-12-2014
Tough first game Uzbekistan seed 21 average 2200 - best of luck - plenty of scalps out there.
Re: U16 Olympiad Hungary - Phil Thomas - 14-12-2014
robin moore Wrote:A bit of background to this event.
Andrew McClement, Shivan Murdochy, Ali Roy and Sam Gregory went out to Turkey to play in this event in 2011 and came back saying how many new friends they had met, what a good event it was but as they had only four players and not five, they felt they were being consistently outprepped. It didn't stop them having a good result though.
Based on this advice we took five players to the event in Istanbul 2012 (Ian McDonald, Murad Abdulla, Andrew McCusker, Daniel Deary and Zak Roy). It definitely made a difference to have that extra player, not only because someone could take a rest if needed but you could be..ahem.."creative" in your team selection in order to try and disrupt your normally stronger opponents prep. We did well again there I felt and had a great time in Istanbul.
This event looks easily the strongest yet, certainly by quantity of countries and teams competing.
The interesting thing about the 2011 event in Turkey is that it was an event tagged on at the end of the season, the venue was, I recall, switched uncomfortably close to the start date. There were insufficient funds left in the IJD budget for me to to send a coach. Pragmatic solution was to have one of the players' parents attend as sole chaperone and head of the delegation.
Results were indeed good. These players showed an admirable ability to do their own preparation. Belated congratulations to all 4.
Re: U16 Olympiad Hungary - David G Congalton - 14-12-2014
Round 3 - Scotland v Hong Kong
Board 1
[pgn][Event "World Youth Chess Olympiad 2014"]
[Site "Gyor"]
[Date "2014.12.14"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Wilson, Kenzo Joseph"]
[Black "Koehn, Lennart"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B56"]
[BlackElo "1846"]
[PlyCount "28"]
[EventCountry "HUN"]
[WhiteTeam "Hong Kong"]
[BlackTeam "Scotland"]
[WhiteTeamCountry "HKG"]
[BlackTeamCountry "SCO"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Be3 Ng4 7. Bg5 h6 8.
Bh4 g5 9. Bg3 Bg7 10. Nxc6 bxc6 11. Bc4 Qb6 12. Bb3 h5 13. h3 h4 14. Bh2 Qxf2#
0-1[/pgn]
Re: U16 Olympiad Hungary - David G Congalton - 14-12-2014
Round 2 - Scotland 2 Transdanubium West (HUN6) 2
Board 3
[pgn][Event "World Youth Chess Olympiad 2014 "]
[Site "Gyor"]
[Date "2014.12.14"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Arvai, Eszther"]
[Black "Shafi, Declan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "1978"]
[PlyCount "112"]
[EventCountry "HUN"]
[WhiteTeam "Transdanubium West (HUN6)"]
[BlackTeam "Scotland"]
[BlackTeamCountry "SCO"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. O-O d5 6. Nbd2 c5 7. c4 cxd4 8.
Nxd4 Nc6 9. Nxc6 bxc6 10. e4 Ba6 11. Qa4 Qb6 12. c5 Qb7 13. Re1 Nd7 14. exd5
Nxc5 15. dxc6 Qb6 16. Qc2 Nd3 17. Re3 Nxc1 18. Rxc1 Bd4 19. Rxe7 Bxf2+ 20. Kh1
Bd4 21. Nb3 Bf6 22. Ree1 Rac8 23. Qb1 Bb5 24. Qc2 Rc7 25. Nd2 Rfc8 26. Ne4 Be7
27. Nc3 Bxc6 28. Bxc6 Qxc6+ 29. Qg2 Qa6 30. Qd2 Qc6+ 31. Qg2 Qxg2+ 32. Kxg2 Bf6
33. Re2 Bxc3 34. bxc3 Rxc3 35. Rce1 Rc2 36. Kf3 Kg7 37. Kf2 R8c5 38. Kf3 Kf6
39. Kg2 Kg5 40. Kf3 R5c3+ 41. Kg2 f5 42. Kg1 h5 43. Kg2 h4 44. gxh4+ Kxh4 45.
Kg1 Kg4 46. Kh1 f4 47. Rg1+ Kh3 48. Rxc2 Rxc2 49. Rxg6 Rxh2+ 50. Kg1 Rxa2 51.
Kf1 a5 52. Ke1 a4 53. Kd1 a3 54. Rg8 Rg2 55. Ra8 a2 56. Kc1 Rg1+ 0-1[/pgn]
Re: U16 Olympiad Hungary - David G Congalton - 14-12-2014
Round 3 Games
Board 2 - Declan Shafi
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Board 3 - Euan Gray
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Board 4 - Anna Milton
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Re: U16 Olympiad Hungary - David G Congalton - 14-12-2014
Round 3 - Scotland 2 Hong Kong 0
Board 2
[pgn][Event "World Youth Chess Olympiad 2014"]
[Site "Gyor"]
[Date "2014.12.14"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Shafi, Declan"]
[Black "Yim, Hao Jun"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "117"]
[EventCountry "HUN"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Be7 6. Qc2 Nc6 7. e3 a6 8. Nf3
Be6 9. a3 Qd7 10. Bd3 g6 11. Rc1 Rc8 12. Na4 Qd8 13. Nc5 Bxc5 14. Qxc5 h6 15.
Bh4 g5 16. Bg3 Bd7 17. Ne5 Rg8 18. Nxc6 Bxc6 19. Bxa6 Ne4 20. Qc2 Nxg3 21. hxg3
Rg6 22. Bd3 Rf6 23. Be2 Ke7 24. Qh7 Qh8 25. Qxh8 Rxh8 26. b4 Kd8 27. b5 Bd7 28.
Rc5 Be6 29. Bf3 b6 30. Rc6 Kd7 31. Bxd5 Bxd5 32. Rxf6 Ke7 33. Rfxh6 Rxh6 34.
Rxh6 Bxg2 35. Ke2 g4 36. Rh5 Bf3+ 37. Kd3 Kd6 38. Rf5 Ke7 39. Rxf3 gxf3 40. Ke4
Kd6 41. Kd3 Kd5 42. e4+ Ke6 43. Ke3 f6 44. Kxf3 Ke7 45. Kf4 Ke6 46. d5+ Kd6 47.
Kf5 Ke7 48. f4 Kf7 49. e5 fxe5 50. fxe5 c5 51. dxc6 Ke7 52. e6 Kd8 53. Ke5 Kc8
54. Kd6 Kb8 55. e7 Ka7 56. a4 Kb8 57. e8=Q+ Ka7 58. Qd7+ Kb8 59. Qb7# 1-0[/pgn]