European Team Chs in Warsaw

[Phil Neatherway]

well played,David Howell!

[Simon Brown]

Yes, never in doubt. Who's next, Alex?

[Mick Norris]

Nice to see both England teams win

[Mick Norris]

Yes, never in doubt. Who's next, Alex?

Choice is Hungary, Ukraine, Armenia or Romania

[Jonathan Rogers]

Ukraine would probably be the toughest of that lot, but a win against any of them would be our best result yet and if we can do it, it would really put us in the frame. I believe that the rest day tomorrow is well timed from our point of view.

[Mick Norris]

Ukraine it is

http://chess-results.com/tnr114411.aspx ... =30&wi=821

[NickFaulks]

This pairing system is so awful.

[LawrenceCooper]

In case anyone doesn't know by now

Bo. 10 GERMANY Rtg - 5 ENGLAND Rtg 1½:2½
9.1 GM NAIDITSCH, Arkadij 2727 - GM ADAMS, Michael 2752 ½ - ½
9.2 GM MEIER, Georg 2623 - GM SHORT, Nigel D 2680 ½ - ½
9.3 GM BARAMIDZE, David 2614 - GM JONES, Gawain C B 2648 ½ - ½
9.4 GM FRIDMAN, Daniel 2600 - GM HOWELL, David W L 2644 0 - 1

Bo. 31 Finland Rtg - 23 England Rtg 1 : 3
16.1 WIM Tuominen, Tanja 2105 - IM Ciuksyte, Dagne 2355 0 - 1
16.2 WFM Puuska, Heini 1982 - WGM Corke, Anya S 2276 0 - 1
16.3 Rautanen, Sari 1956 - WFM Grigoryan, Meri 2039 ½ - ½
16.4 WCM Nazarova, Anastasia 1727 - WFM Bhatia, Kanwal K 2039 ½ - ½

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 6 Open: England v Ukraine

6. UKRAINE RtgAvg:2694

1 GM ARESHCHENKO Alexander2720
2 GM VOLOKITIN Andrei 2682
3 GM EFIMENKO Zahar 2657
4 GM MOISEENKO Alexander 2709
5 GM FEDORCHUK Sergey A. 2666

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 6 Women: England v Switzerland

1 WIM Seps Monika 2260
2 WIM Heinatz Dr. Gundula 2169
3 WFM Stoeri Laura 2102
4 WFM De Seroux Camille 2066
5 Thuerig Catherine 1997

[Simon Brown]

So, who do we think will be rested? After the rest day.

[Matt Mackenzie]

Nice to see both England teams win

Nice to see the women get some points on the board, tbh

[Nick Burrows]

So, who do we think will be rested? After the rest day.

Tough one, I think I would play the same team.

[Alex Holowczak]

Yes, never in doubt. Who's next, Alex?

I was about to start a game when you asked, so I was in no position to answer the question. A dull 22-move draw disturbed only by the back catalogue of Katy Perry coming through the floorboards from the bar downstairs and a guy playing friendlies who kept making somewhat odd noises. And the heating took about an hour to warm up. And we lost.

This pairing system is so awful.

The 7-point group in seeding order is Russia, Armenia, Ukraine, England, Hungary, Romania. So England would be bottom half, and so if we had to have one of the teams in the top half to play against, we can't play Russia (we already have), a Ukrainian side devoid of Ponomariov, Ivanchuk and Eljanov is probably as good as we could hope for regardless of the pairing system.

[Simon Brown]

Alex, my question was a little tongue-in-cheek as the round hadn't actually finished when I posted. But thanks for the explanation, and sorry about the loss. I'm hoping not to hear about dull 22-move draws on the other thread....