European Team Chs in Warsaw

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Is Adams winning? A pawn up at move 25.

[Simon Brown]

According to the engines, Black is better on all four boards at 4.15 UK time. A first?

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Still better for Black on all three boards (board 1 drew), but all six players appear to be in time trouble.

[benedgell]

Looks like 2.5-1.5 Georgia at the moment. Assuming it happens England will be 4 points off the leaders with 3 rounds remaining. Looks a tough ask to reach a medal- winning position.

For the ladies, I reckon they'll get a draw against Turkey from here.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Gawain has clawed something out of the position (49.exf7+). Hope he can draw! Not sure what is going on in Nigel's game.

[Colin Patterson]

Will the real Houdini please stand up! Fantastic effort from Jones.

[Mick Norris]

Yes, and well done Nigel to draw the match

France drew so retain their lead on 12 and will presumably play Armenia (11) with Azerbaijan (11) playing Greece (10)

England on 9 with Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Belarus, Hungary, Netherlands, Czech Republic

[Mick Norris]

Good win for England women v Turkey

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 7 results:

Bo. 14 GEORGIA Rtg - 5 ENGLAND Rtg 2 : 2
4.1 GM JOBAVA, Baadur 2695 - GM ADAMS, Michael 2752 ½ - ½
4.2 GM MCHEDLISHVILI, Mikheil 2631 - GM MCSHANE, Luke J 2696 1 - 0
4.3 GM GAGUNASHVILI, Merab 2556 - GM SHORT, Nigel D 2680 0 - 1
4.4 GM PANTSULAIA, Levan 2595 - GM JONES, Gawain C B 2648 ½ - ½

Bo. 28 Turkey Rtg - 23 England Rtg 1½:2½
13.1 WGM Yildiz, Betul Cemre 2291 - WFM Chevannes, Sabrina L 2200 1 - 0
13.2 WGM Ozturk, Kubra 2281 - WGM Corke, Anya S 2276 ½ - ½
13.3 WCM Cemhan, Kardelen 1993 - WFM Grigoryan, Meri 2039 0 - 1
13.4 Gurcan, Aytolun 1745 - WFM Bhatia, Kanwal K 2039 0 - 1

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 8 pairings:

5 5 ENGLAND 16 9 : 9 16½ HUNGARY 7

1 GM ERDOS Viktor 2658
2 GM BALOGH Csaba 2630
3 GM ALMASI Zoltan 2710
4 GM POLGAR Judit 2689
5 GM BANUSZ Tamas 2593

11 23 England 8 6 : 6 13 Azerbaijan 17

1 WGM Mammadova Gulnar 2354
2 WGM Mamedjarova Zeinab 2236
3 WIM Abdulla Khayala 2255
4 WGM Mamedjarova Turkan 2250
5 WIM Umudova Nargiz 2253

[John Swain]

Aronian's win against the draw-machine Bacrot is high-class.

[NickFaulks]

Great example from Morozevich of why you should never EVER resign.

[Colin Patterson]

Anya Corke's game today was a fine advert for relentless attacking chess and expertly conducted. Well worth a look.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

I see England drew 2-2, with a win from Adams, draw from Short, loss from Jones and a draw from Howell against Judit Polgar. The round nine pairings show England playing the Poland first team, which has a certain symmetry with the pairing against the Poland third team in round 1. In the Women's section, England lost 2.5-1.5 to Azerbaijan and face Iceland in the final round. Best of luck to both teams.

It will be interesting to see what happens on the top two match tables in the Open, with Armenia playing Azerbaijan and Russia playing France. Georgia, also in contention for the medals, play the Czech Republic. I think the England Open team still have faint hopes of tying for third with two other countries if results go their way.

[Angus French]

It will be interesting to see what happens on the top two match tables in the Open, with Armenia playing Azerbaijan and Russia playing France. Georgia, also in contention for the medals, play the Czech Republic. I think the England Open team still have faint hopes of tying for third with two other countries if results go their way.

Last round tomorrow, starting, I make it, at 10am UK time (from here).