2012 Olympiad (rounds 1-5) & U16 Olympiad (rounds 1-6)

[LawrenceCooper]

This years event is being held in Istanbul, albeit very close to the airport as opposed to the city itself. The mens team are seeded eleventh out of one hundred and fifty seven teams and have the same five players as last year’s European Team albeit Gawain Jones has been promoted from board four to two with Nigel Short and David Howell each dropping down a board. Mickey Adams again plays on board one and Nick Pert completes the line up on board five.

Peter Wells makes a welcome return to the captaincy of the mens team after a successful debut in 2008 when we had one of our best results in recent years. The team had a successful unbeaten first week (both team and individually) with a comfortable win against Andorra being followed by impressive wins against Brazil & Cuba and hard fought draws against France and India.

After five rounds Armenia & Russia lead with ten match points, Azerbaijan and Croatia have nine whilst England are one of seventeen teams with eight. Round six sees England face Italy with white on odd boards on Monday 3rd September at 15:00 Turkish time.

Individual scores and tournament performance rating:

Mickey 2.5/4 v 2685 = 2780.
Gawain 2.5/5 v 2653 = 2653.
Nigel 4/5 v 2563 = 2803.
David 2.5/4 v 2489 = 2584.
Nick 1.5/2 v 2385

Round 1: Andorra 0.5 England 3.5

10.1 GM De La Riva Aguado, Oscar 2540 - GM Jones, Gawain 2653 ½ - ½
10.2 FM Simonet, Marc 2291 - GM Short, Nigel 2698 0 - 1
10.3 FM Garcia, Raul 2193 - GM Howell, David 2635 0 - 1
10.4 Jose Queralto, Daniel 2133 - GM Pert, Nicholas 2555 0 - 1

Round 2: England 2.5 Brazil 1.5

10.1 GM Adams, Michael 2722 - GM Leitao, Rafael 2623 ½ - ½
10.2 GM Jones, Gawain 2653 - GM Vescovi, Giovanni 2617 ½ - ½
10.3 GM Short, Nigel 2698 - GM Fier, Alexandr 2582 1 - 0
10.4 GM Howell, David 2635 - GM Mekhitarian, Krikor Sevag 2511 ½ - ½

Round 3: England 3 Cuba 1

5.1 GM Adams, Michael 2722 - GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier 2725 1 - 0
5.2 GM Jones, Gawain 2653 - GM Bruzon Batista, Lazaro 2711 ½ - ½
5.3 GM Short, Nigel 2698 - GM Quesada Perez, Yuniesky 2626 1 - 0
5.4 GM Howell, David 2635 - GM Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynaldo 2569 ½ - ½

Round 4: France 2 England 2

4.1 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2686 - GM Adams, Michael 2722 ½ - ½
4.2 GM Fressinet, Laurent 2714 - GM Jones, Gawain 2653 ½ - ½
4.3 GM Edouard, Romain 2652 - GM Short, Nigel 2698 ½ - ½
4.4 GM Bauer, Christian 2682 - GM Howell, David 2635 ½ - ½

Round 5: 13 India 2 England 2
7.1 GM Sasikiran, Krishnan 2707 - GM Adams, Michael 2722 ½ - ½
7.2 GM Harikrishna, Pentala 2685 - GM Jones, Gawain 2653 ½ - ½
7.3 GM Negi, Parimarjan 2664 - GM Short, Nigel 2698 ½ - ½
7.4 GM Gupta, Abhijeet 2637 - GM Pert, Nicholas 2555 ½ - ½

The womens team is being captained for the first time by grandmaster Stephen Gordon and is seeded 44th out of one hundred and twenty seven teams. Both Maria Yurenok and Sabrina Chevannes make their Olympiad debuts after previous England appearances in the European Team and Anya Corke makes her England debut. Sarah Hegarty plays in her second Olympiad and Kanwal Bhatia in her third.

After a comfortable first round win the team were on the receiving end of a very harsh scoreline in round two before hard fought draws in rounds three and four against Kyrgyzstan and Indonesia and a narrow defeat against the very highly rated Armenian team. They face Qatar in round six.

Individual scores: Anya 2/5, Maria 1/3, Sarah 2/4, Sabrina 2.5/4, Kanwal 2/4.

Round 1: England 4 Suriname 0

42.1 WGM Corke, Anya 2254 - Dos Ramos, Rosangela 1707 1 - 0
42.2 WFM Hegarty, Sarah 2120 - WCM Naipal, Ekaterina 1756 1 - 0
42.3 WFM Chevannes, Sabrina 2090 - WCM Ooft, Tesora 1716 1 - 0
42.4 WFM Bhatia, Kanwal 2103 - Dos Ramos, Sabrina 0 1 - 0

Round 2: Mongolia 4 England 0

30.1 IM Munguntuul, Batkhuyag 2434 - WGM Corke, Anya 2254 1 - 0
30.2 WIM Yanjindulam, Dulamsuren 2232 - WFM Yurenok, Maria 2058 1 - 0
30.3 WIM Ankhchimeg, Bayanmunkh 2167 - WFM Chevannes, Sabrina 2090 1 - 0
30.4 WFM Otgonjargal, Sengeravdan 2146 - WFM Bhatia, Kanwal 2103 1 - 0

Round 3: England 2 Kyrgyzstan 2

41.1 WGM Corke, Anya 2254 - Samaganova, Aleksandra 2057 ½ - ½
41.2 WFM Yurenok, Maria 2058 - Omurbekova, Diana 1697 ½ - ½
41.3 WFM Hegarty, Sarah 2120 - Tilenbaeva, Baktygul 1940 1 - 0
41.4 WFM Bhatia, Kanwal 2103 - Alymbay Kyzy, Aizhan 1810 0 - 1

Round 4: Indonesia 2 England 2

28.1 WFM Medina, Warda Aulia 2218 - WGM Corke, Anya 2254 ½ - ½
28.2 WIM Sihite, Chelsie Monica 2162 - WFM Yurenok, Maria 2058 ½ - ½
28.3 WFM Citra, Dewi 2143 - WFM Hegarty, Sarah 2120 1 - 0
28.4 Aay, Aisyah Anisa 1818 - WFM Chevannes, Sabrina 2090 0 - 1

Round 5 England 1.5 Armenia 2.5

23.1 WGM Corke, Anya 2254 - GM Danielian, Elina 2476 0-1
23.2 WFM Hegarty, Sarah 2120 - IM Mkrtchian, Lilit 2454 0-1
23.3 WFM Chevannes, Sabrina 2090 - WGM Kursova, Maria 2338 ½ - ½
23.4 WFM Bhatia, Kanwal 2103 - WIM Hairapetian, Anna 2203 1-0

The under 16 team is captained by Glenn Flear and their results have been as follows:

1.18 38 Lebanon ½ - 3½ 18 England

1 FM Chahrour Ibrahim 1953 ½ : ½ Harvey Marcus R 2134
2 Najarian Nareg 0 : 1 Hackner Oskar A 2032
3 Hamad Mohammad 0 : 1 Zhang Roy Yinian 1861
4 Khairallah Ralph 0 : 1 Noel Daniel

2.6 18 England 0 - 4 3 India

1 Harvey Marcus R 2134 0 : 1 Narayanan Sunilduth Lyna 2328
2 Hackner Oskar A 2032 0 : 1 FM Das Sayantan 2305
3 Zhang Roy Yinian 1861 0 : 1 FM Gagare Shardul 2287
4 Hoare Amy B 1958 0 : 1 Akash Pc Iyer 2182

3.12 40 Sweden 1 - 3 18 England

1 Paltzer Brandy 0 : 1 Harvey Marcus R 2134
2 Andreasson Linn 0 : 1 Hackner Oskar A 2032
3 Weinman Rina 1525 0 : 1 Hoare Amy B 1958
4 Kraemer Ina 1 : 0 Noel Daniel

4.10 18 England 1½ - 2½ 14 Greece

1 Harvey Marcus R 2134 1 : 0 Naoum Spyridon 2146
2 Hackner Oskar A 2032 0 : 1 Theodorou Nikolas 2129
3 Zhang Roy Yinian 1861 ½ : ½ Ladopoulos Dimitrios 2027
4 Hoare Amy B 1958 0 : 1 Kalogridakis Georgios 2017

5.10 17 Slovakia-Team B 1 - 3 18 England

1 Pechac Jergus 2081 0 : 1 Harvey Marcus R 2134
2 Sosovicka Matej 2040 0 : 1 Hackner Oskar A 2032
3 Haring Viktor 2049 ½ : ½ Zhang Roy Yinian 1861
4 Spacek Oliver 1945 ½ : ½ Noel Daniel

6.10 34 South Africa-Team-A 2½ - 1½ 18 England

1 Pon Matt 1832 ½ : ½ Harvey Marcus R 2134
2 Bezuidenhout Roland 1942 1 : 0 Hackner Oskar A 2032
3 De Abreu Roberto N 1970 1 : 0 Hoare Amy B 1958
4 Darling Simeon C. 0 : 1 Noel Daniel

Individual scores: Marcus 4/6, Oskar 3/6, Roy 2/4, Amy 1.0/4, Daniel 2.5/4. Their next opponents are Turkey-Turkuaz in round seven.

Website links:

http://results.chessolympiadistanbul.co ... =1&flag=30
http://results.chessolympiadistanbul.co ... =1&flag=30
http://www.chessdom.com/chess-olympiad-2012-live/
http://www.chessolympiadistanbul.com/livegames/

http://wyco2012.tsf.org.tr/en/component ... ew&kid=207
http://live2.tsf.org.tr/

Lawrence Cooper
2nd September 2012

[Andrew Bak]

Nice to see Marcus doing well in the U16 Olympiad! Let's hope England can move up a few places in the 2nd week!

How come Slovakia get to have two teams? Were they risking running a bye or something?

[LawrenceCooper]

Nice to see Marcus doing well in the U16 Olympiad! Let's hope England can move up a few places in the 2nd week!

How come Slovakia get to have two teams? Were they risking running a bye or something?

You can enter as many teams as you want. I believe England wanted to send more teams including a girls team but by the time the invites went out many players were unavailable.