Euro Seniors individual, Kaunas

[Craig Pritchett]

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Event started. See live games daily at link above (click "results"). Two Scots entered - Phil Giulian, Ian Marks. Rd 4 today. Good luck!

[Patrick McGovern]

results please?

[David G Congalton]

Here's a link -

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Phil won his first two rounds but suffered defeats in rounds 3 and 4.

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Ian also has two points but travelled a slightly different road.

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[Alastair White]

A good couple of days with Phil scoring 2/2 to reach 4.5/7 and Ian getting 1.5/2 to reach 3.5/7. Keep up the good work!

[Alastair White]

Phil is playing on the live boards this morning against a Slovenian IM. Position fairly level after 15 moves.

[Alastair White]

A strong finish, with both of our representatives winning in the last round.

Joint Scottish Senior Champion Phil Giulian beat an IM in the last round to finish on 6/9 (=10th) with a tournament performance rating of 2271 (from a starting rank of 22nd).

Ian Marks also won to finish on 4.5/9 (=49th) and a tournament performance rating of 2065 (from a starting rank of 68th) and after a similarly strong showing in the Scottish his FIDE rating is set to climb.

103 players from all over Europe, including many GMs, IMs and FMs, competed.

Well done to both!

[Craig Pritchett]

Well dones to both echoed!

Alastair modestly omits to say that he had the new Euro seniors champion N Pushkov on the rack last year at the Euro seniors teams in Greece. Scots aren't too bad at the seniors game, you know!