World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2016

[robin moore]

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Event starts on 22nd July and good to see all the details up already, organisers look to be on the ball. Scotland seeded 37th of 53 teams.

[robin moore]

Looks like Romania in round 1. Wouldn't take the board orders as gospel though.

[Andy Howie]

Thats a pretty handy line up we have there. Declan in particular is on fire at the moment. I suspect we will see some upsets here

[Andy Howie]

Just updated the news item with a blog and pics

[robin moore]

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Looks like we are all on live boards today from the link above on the official website.

[robin moore]

In fact the organisers have every game on a live board-impressive!

[Andy Howie]

Pity the operators. I get a headache dealing with 45

[Ianbrownlee]

i'm chillin out watching the games in my office good job i'm the boss better close the door

[robin moore]

Well I am at home with two packets of quavers, a bounty bar and a cup of tea. Oh and my dog hooch..

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hanging about for any crumbs.

[Jim Webster]

Robin,

I always suspected that there was a similarity between dogs and their owners. The link goes a long way to proving this.

Have you managed to get any of the crumbs?

On the topic: -

Good luck to all our players and officials at the tournament. Scotland is supporting you all the way.