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I have been in touch with Sarunas Sulskis who will be playing for the Kaunas team. He says he will be wearing his MacSulskis tartan kilt, munching haggis and swilling down whisky from the distillery at Lochranza in Arran.
What some folks will do to become an honorary Scot!
Seriously, he is really looking forward to meeting folks from Scotland again which he so enjoyed visiting.
By the way, don't drink any of that Lithuanian vodka if he offers it to you unless you wish to have your teeth whitened cheaply.
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Good luck to Bon Accord and Edinburgh for the start tomorrow. Some tough opposition out there!!!
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All the best to both teams from me too. Enjoy the experience.
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This should be fun. Best of luck to the guys!
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C'mon boys, bring that trophy home!
The favorites are SOCAR, the team sponsored by the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic. Their line-up is good for a 2728 average rating. Note that the board order will be announced later by the team captains.
1 GM Anish Giri NED 2758
2 GM Anton Korobov RUS 2673
3 GM Wang Hao CHN 2730
4 GM Veselin Topalov BUL 2784
5 GM Teimour Radjabov AZE 2717
6 GM Shakhriyar Mammedyarov AZE 2756
7 GM Eltaj Safarli AZE 2655
8 GM Michael Adams ENG 2752
Apparently were an oil rich country, depending on what and who you believe!
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Bon Accord (51st seed) - Cercle d'Echecs de Bois Coolombes (25th seed French team 1 Bassem Amin (2638), 2 Matthieu Cornette (2548)
Edinburgh (45th seed) - SK Dunajska Streda (19th seed - five 2400s and a 2300)
Above from the ECF site for 1st round. Team orders not confirmed.
Hope everyone has a great time there.
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Easy start for us both...
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SK Dunajska Streda (19) v Edinburgh (45)
19.1 2459 Petenyi, Tamas ... ... Sreeves, Clement 2242
19.2 2459 Varga, Zoltan ... ... Berry, Neil 2216
19.3 2491 Bokros, Albert ... ... Green, Andrew D 2140
19.4 2434 Czebe, Attila ... ... Mcgowan, Daniel 2087
19.5 2408 Meszaros, Michal ... ... Bhopal, Raj 2043
19.6 2357 Csiba, Dominik ... ... Sykes, Chris 1934
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Cercle d'Echecs de Bois Colombes (25) v Bon Accord (51)
25.1 2638 Amin, Bassem ... ... Bremner, Adam 2193
25.2 2548 Cornette, Matthieu ... ... Olson, Hamish 2055
25.3 2490 Kazakov, Mikhail ... ... Maxwell, Daniel 2046
25.4 2392 Dionisi, Thomas ... ... Harwood, Duncan 2016
25.5 2215 Metzger, Clement ... ... Abdulla, Murad 1948
25.6 2057 Plane, Boris ... ... Jennings, Richard 0
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Bon Accord lost 6-0.
Edinburgh lost 5-1.
Draws for Clement and Neil against ~2450 opposition.
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