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Chess Olympiad has begun!

  • 13-11-2008 5:39pm
    #1
    Pherekydes
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    Live results here.


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  • #2
    RoundTower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭RoundTower


    not a good start for Ireland, looks like a likely whitewash against a much higher rated Poland.

    Slow starts for most of the top teams, too.


  • #3
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,191 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Ireland, without Baburin, whitewashed Luxembourg today. Off the mark.


  • #4
    RoundTower
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    does anyone know how does the Swiss system work in this tournament? For example Russia are on board 1 despite having scored 2.5/4 yesterday, playing Poland who have 4/4.

    This is probably a bad place to ask but someone might have an idea.


  • #5
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,191 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    RoundTower wrote: »
    does anyone know how does the Swiss system work in this tournament? For example Russia are on board 1 despite having scored 2.5/4 yesterday, playing Poland who have 4/4.

    This is probably a bad place to ask but someone might have an idea.

    I believe the standings are based on the match result, rather than the score, so Russia and Poland both won yesterday.


  • #6
    RoundTower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭RoundTower


    So the pairings are based on the match points, but the winner is the team with the most board points? Or is it entirely on match points (I think not)?


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  • #7
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,191 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    I think it goes by:

    Match points
    Board points
    Elo average, i.e. seeding.

    Not entirely certain, though.


  • #8
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,191 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    My favourite team is the Seychelles. :D


  • #9
    The Tourist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 376 ✭✭The Tourist


    Updates on Irish team available here:

    http://www.icu.ie/articles/display.php?id=214


  • #10
    RoundTower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭RoundTower


    still no news of note from the Irish team: they've beaten the lower ranked teams and lost to the higher rated ones.

    what might interest some people is that the young English grandmaster Gawain Jones drew with Black against world no. 2 Alexander Morozevich. Gawain was living in Ireland until quite recently and was a regular at the Irish tournaments.


  • #11
    Jam-Fly
    Registered Users Posts: 549 ✭✭✭Jam-Fly


    Armenia won.

    Pretty shocking results for Ireland. Ranked 57 and came 60th so I guess it's not all that bad, but we usualy come top 50. Not such a good tournie for many of the Irish players. Baburin got the ole performance rating of 2386, and Collins had one of 2243! Tough luck


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