European club cup Bilbao

[robin moore]

Well, not such good results today but our teams had really strong opponents after doing so well yesterday.
It's tough there, no doubt about it and the standard is truly frightening.

Keep focused but enjoy it, there are plenty of nice points available and you are all good enough to get them.

[robin moore]

Is anyone else scunnered by the quality of coverage at this very important event?

In case anyone outside of Scotland is reading this....

Scots[edit]

Verb[edit]

tae scunner (third-person singular simple present scunners, present participle scunnerin, simple past scunnert, past participle scunnert)
1.to be very tired, to be knackered

Or....

Och, He's a right scunner

Translated..This gentleman will not have an opportunity of escorting me home this evening.

[J DURNO]

Yes, coverage disappointing. Can't seem to get into any results from today.

[Adam Bremner]

Well for what it's worth, Bon Accord beat Burtrini 3.5-2.5 (although it should have been more), and I think Edinburgh lost (they were 3-0 down when I left).

Phenomenal event, but easy for your confidence to take a battering. The standard is pretty relentless.

[Adam Bremner]

For those of you asking for games, here is Duncan Harwood's effort from today. A very fun game.

[pgn][Event "ECCC 2014"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2014.09.17"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Minasi, L."]
[Black "Harwood, D."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B71"]
[PlyCount "74"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. f4 Nc6 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8.
Bc4 Qb6 9. Qe2 Bg7 10. e5 Ng4 11. h3 Nh6 12. g4 O-O 13. Nd1 d5 14. Bd3 f5 15.
g5 Nf7 16. h4 h5 17. gxh6 Nxh6 18. h5 c5 19. Qg2 Bb7 20. hxg6 Rac8 21. Qg5 Rc6
22. Rxh6 Bxh6 23. Qxh6 Rxg6 24. Qh2 Rh6 25. Qg1+ Kh8 26. c4 Rg8 27. Qf2 Rh1+
28. Kd2 d4 29. Bf1 Rgg1 30. Ke1 Rg2 31. Bd2 Qh6 32. b4 Rxf2 33. Nxf2 Rh2 34.
Ke2 Qh5+ 35. Kd3 Qf3+ 36. Kc2 Rxf2 37. Bd3 Qxd3+ 0-1[/pgn]

[amuir]

that's very disappointing for both scottish teams to be paired together for round 5

[Jonathan Edwards]

Edinburgh v Bon Accord on the independence referendum day...

[Alan Borwell]

Somebody in Northern Spain maybe has a warped sense of humour You do not go all that way to play other Scottish Club - this is where automated computer derived pairings need varying with a bit of common sense,

[John Watkins]

Edinburgh v Bon Accord on the independence referendum day...

+1
=))
Damn beat me to it. Have fun today!!!

[Alastair White]

Somebody in Northern Spain maybe has a warped sense of humour You do not go all that way to play other Scottish Club - this is where automated computer derived pairings need varying with a bit of common sense,

I'm afraid it was quite likely to happen sooner or later. The seeding range 45-51 consists of 2 Scottish, 2 Welsh, 2 Irish and 1 English team. There has already been several cross-pairings from within the group and you can expect to see more in the last couple of rounds.

As soon as you start to 'manipulate' pairings you will potentially create anomalies and leave yourself open to justified protests from teams may have been given a harder pairing than they would otherwise have had. So I think it's probably best to go with the computer even if it results in an unwelcome pairing like this.