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If you aren't Chessed out with the Anand/Carlsen match & the Euro Team Championships...
We have 4 Scottish players playing in the World Seniors:
24. IM Pritchett Craig W SCO 2359
49. FM Giulian Philip M SCO 2244
144. Mckerracher Douglas SCO 2032
174. Marks Ian A SCO 1948
Rnd 1 kicks of later this afternoon, live games on the official website at
http://worldsenior2013.rijekachess.com/en
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I have also spotted a familiar name in the Women's tournament - Helen Milligan, playing under the flag of New Zealand...
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Only Craig's game is on the live boards today. Currently watching this at
http://worldsenior2013.rijekachess.com/e...mes/live-2. Having to use my Opera browser, as quite ridiculously the website recommends using another browser as states it does not work very well with Internet Explorer.
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Helen Milligan's game is now up too
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Good draw for Helen today. Her opponent, Elena Fatalibekova, was a very strong player in her heyday.
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I'm following this closely as supporting my club mate, just saw all the results.
Rnd 1...
Craig drew, Ian also drew with a 2200+ Brazilian IM.
Phillip & Douglas lost
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Since no-one's mentioned it...
Gaprindashvili ½ Milligan ½
Great result for Helen. Nona was none too pleased!
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That's a big name (no pun), a whopper. Are there any other Scots victories against former World Champions? Keti beat Smyslov once, but I don't think she could be claimed as a Scot at the time.
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To make it slightly easier - how about Scot wins against future world champs?
[pgn][Event "Lloyds Bank op 10th"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1986.??.??"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Condie, Mark L"]
[Black "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E10"]
[WhiteElo "2410"]
[BlackElo "2420"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "1986.08.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "ENG"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1999.11.16"]
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. d4 c5 4. e3 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O b6 8. b3 Bb7
9. Bb2 Qe7 10. Qc2 Nc6 11. Rfd1 Rac8 12. dxc5 bxc5 13. Rd2 Rfd8 14. Rad1 d5 15.
Qb1 d4 16. exd4 Bh6 17. dxc5 Bxd2 18. Nxd2 Nd4 19. b4 e5 20. Bf1 Nf5 21. Nde4
Nxe4 22. Rxd8+ Rxd8 23. Nxe4 Qh4 24. Ng3 e4 25. Qc1 f6 26. Qc3 Rd1 27. Qc2 Rd7
28. Qa4 Re7 29. Nxf5 gxf5 30. Qxa7 Kf7 31. Qb8 e3 32. fxe3 Bxg2 33. Qg3 Qxg3
34. hxg3 Bxf1 35. Kxf1 Rxe3 36. b5 Ke8 37. c6 Kd8 38. Bxf6+ Kc8 39. c5 h6 40.
a4 Re6 1-0[/pgn]