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Tromso Olympiad - Alastair White - 02-08-2014
Tried to watch the first round games today.
At the time of posting, the open team are in the process of scoring a comfortable 4-0.
Seems to be some technical glitches in the reporting of the women's games. At one stage it had the Scots losing heavily, but I didn't believe that for a moment. Sure enough, the score was later amended, although the games still were showing wrongly.
Equally I don't believe some of the other results showing e.g. Australia losing 4-0 to Kenya or Denmark likewise to Palestine. There are many other clearly wrong results which also confused the video commentators.
Altogether I found the website glitchy, unresponsive and difficult to navigate. I hope they get it sorted soon or it won't be much use.
By the way, ex-Scot (now NZ) Helen Milligan played Tanya Sachdev (also well known to us!) today...
Re: Tromso Olympiad - HLang - 02-08-2014
By the looks of it, the four boards in the women's match were inverted. 1. e4 d5 on board 3 is almost certainly Elaine with black on board 2, and so on. This would imply that Keti, Elaine and Ali have all won, while Carey is still playing (as per the official results).
Re: Tromso Olympiad - Geoff Chandler - 03-08-2014
Hi Alastair,
I'm in Norway, they are paying me loads of money to run the offical site for them.
Don't worry about the 'iffy results' that is just me guessing what the result will be
because I have been banned from the playing area for kibitizing the GM games.
Honestly some of the bleak trash they play is so boring.
It's like watching a mime artist acting watching paint dry.
Thank God for Roddy McKay.
Nurdin Hassuji (Tanzania) vs Roddy McKay (Scotland ) Olympiad 2014
(You know these things Alastair, where is Tanzania? Sounds like a tanning joint on the High Street.
Tans in Here! )
[pgn]1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cd4 4. Nd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Be3 Bb4 7. f3 d5 8. Bb5 Bd7 9. Bc6 Bc6 10. e5 Nd7 11. f4 Qh4 12. g3 Qe7 13. Qg4 f5 14. ef6 Nf6 15. Qe2 O-O 16. O-O Bd7 17. Bd2 Rfe8 18. Nf3 Rac8 19. a3 Bc5 20. Kh1 d4 21. Ne4 Bc6 22. Nf6 Qf6 23. Qd3 Bd5 24. Kg1 Bb6 25. Ne5 {OK here we go...} 25...Rc2 {White cannot take the Rook because of d3+ winning the White Queen so White goes for the lynch pin of the combo, the b6 Bishop.} 26. Nd7 Qd8 27. Nb6 Qb6 {The b6 Bishop has gone but a Queen has taken it's place and still White cannot take the c2 Rook because d3+ wins the Queen. White commits suicide.} 28. Ba5 Rg2 {White resigned. After 29.Kh1 Black has 29...Qxb2 which must be mating. Threat = Rg1+ and Qg2 mate. (though you never can tell with McKay, he may have had a more imaginative finish.)}[/pgn]
Re: Tromso Olympiad - Andy Howie - 04-08-2014
John has a mate in 13 on! Will he see it?
Re: Tromso Olympiad - Hugh Brechin - 06-08-2014
Fun stuff from Andrew today. Nice-looking game, that - always fun when the good players take a punt.
Re: Tromso Olympiad - George Neave - 09-08-2014
Local derby today versus Ireland. Nothing in it on paper. Should be interesting?
Is Andrew Greet going to be Scotland's next GM?
Re: Tromso Olympiad - Jonathan Livingstone - 09-08-2014
Is a third GM norm for IM Greet on the cards? Wouldn't he still have to hit 2500 ?
I always wonder who has what norms... is there a list of our top players and what FM/IM/GM norms they have achieved towards getting the titles?
Re: Tromso Olympiad - Douglas Bryson - 09-08-2014
Jonathan Livingstone Wrote:Is a third GM norm for IM Greet on the cards? Wouldn't he still have to hit 2500 ?
I always wonder who has what norms... is there a list of our top players and what FM/IM/GM norms they have achieved towards getting the titles?
There is a link to all the norms held by Scottish players on the page where we list FIDE ratings.
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On right hand side click "Title norms" and it takes you through to the FIDE site.
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Re: Tromso Olympiad - George Neave - 10-08-2014
George Neave Wrote:Local derby today versus Ireland. Nothing in it on paper. Should be interesting?
Is Andrew Greet going to be Scotland's next GM?
Great result yesterday and so now getting close to the big boys. A win today would leave Scotland very well placed going into the final 3 rounds.
Out of interest, what is Scotland's highest ever Olympiad?
Re: Tromso Olympiad - Douglas Bryson - 11-08-2014
15th at Folkestone 1933 but maybe not what you were looking for.
How about percentage of points available as a marker of success? Istanbul 2000 might be best of modern era. That would also be highest finish at 30th post 1992 onwards when you have the influx of all the ex-Soviet countries.
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