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From the official website of the event -
Quote:According to FIDE regulations, the European Club Cup offers the possibility for players to achieve GM, IM, WGM and WIM norms based on 7 games.
I reckon for an IM Norm Jonathan requires a draw against IM Mads Andersen who's played board 1 throughout for Edinburgh West's round 7 opponents.
Andersen's had a good tournament as well and I think a win for him would give him a GM Norm.
So it looks like one of them is going to finish tomorrow with a Norm from the event.
Am I missing something from Jonathan's game today or is b6 just a horrendous blunder. Leaving aside BC6+, I can't see what black was thinking they could reply to Rxa8, that looked good enough to persuade them to play b6. Did they simply forget there was a white bishop on g2?
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Maybe he thought that White wouldn't want to give up the light-squared bishop with Black's counterpart poised to exploit the abandoned fianchetto. There does seem to be some compensation if White just whips off the rook, though I don't think enough.
It's a hideously bad move from a 2200 though. Bc6 and Qe4 is not difficult to see.
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Greetings from Rhodes!
we were sitting fairly close to the West match yesterday, and the game was over in 20 minutes. Sreeves thought it must have been a default! As has been mentioned, 7 round norms are possible in specific events like the ECC. I believe there is also a rule that your 3 norms must total at least 27 games, so one of the other norms would need to be in a longer event.
The week has just flown by. We're very pleased with our 3 victories so far. Should be a cracking last round - tough pairings for both ourselves and West, and some excitement up top with Czech side Novy Bor 1 point ahead of the field.
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Lots of interest for Scottish chess today. Jonathan Grant playing for an IM Norm.
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David Oswald looking to finish off a good tournament in style.
Edinburgh Chess Club could finish top of the teams from the UK and Ireland.
Black starts white's clock at 1pm. Jonathan on board 25.1
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Good Luck to all our players.
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Enjoyable wee miniature for George there. Always nice to finish a tournament like that.
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Well, it's a shame neither Jonathan (whose opponent unfortunately got that GM norm) nor David got the results to set the seal on their tournaments, but still reasons to be cheerful - a good win by West, and a cracking result from Calum.
