Batumi Olympiad

[Mick Norris]

Giri - Caruana today

Bo. 29 Brazil (BRA) Rtg - 9 England (ENG) Rtg

6.1 GM Leitao, Rafael 2620 - GM Adams, Michael 2712
6.2 GM Fier, Alexandr 2558 - GM McShane, Luke J 2672
6.3 GM Supi, Luis Paulo 2548 - GM Howell, David W L 2689
6.4 GM Mekhitarian, Krikor Sevag 2543 - GM Jones, Gawain C B 2677

[JustinHorton]

I was about to post the women's pairings - is there any way of doing it without it taking about a thousand years cutting out all the gaps?

[Mick Norris]

Not that I am aware of

Bo. 25 England (ENG) Rtg - 11 Azerbaijan (AZE) Rtg

2.1 IM Houska, Jovanka 2402 - IM Mammadzada, Gunay 2438
2.2 FM Kalaiyalahan, Akshaya 2253 - WGM Mamedjarova, Zeinab 2358
2.3 IM Ciuksyte, Dagne 2308 - WIM Balajayeva, Khanim 2326
2.4 WFM Head, Louise 2161 - IM Mammadova, Gulnar 2355

Good luck to both teams again today

[Michael Bennett]

I was about to post the women's pairings - is there any way of doing it without it taking about a thousand years cutting out all the gaps?

Speed it up by first pasting the text into a text editor (e.g. Notepad) and replacing the 'tab' character with a single space.

[JustinHorton]

Yeah I thought of that, but no tab character.

[Michael Bennett]

Yeah I thought of that, but no tab character.

Inside Notepad, I copy and paste the first tab character from the pasted text (from Chess Results) into the find and replace window, and that works ok for me.

[Jonathan Rogers]

Giri - Caruana today

Bo. 29 Brazil (BRA) Rtg - 9 England (ENG) Rtg

6.1 GM Leitao, Rafael 2620 - GM Adams, Michael 2712
6.2 GM Fier, Alexandr 2558 - GM McShane, Luke J 2672
6.3 GM Supi, Luis Paulo 2548 - GM Howell, David W L 2689
6.4 GM Mekhitarian, Krikor Sevag 2543 - GM Jones, Gawain C B 2677

Note the colours. Luke now on 2/2 Whites, David on 3/3 Blacks, Gawain on 3/3 Whites and if Nick is reinstated tomorrow he will be playing his third Black. Alas, this was always a hazard when we got the double white at the start, which I should imagine quite displeased us (and we didn't need White on one to be sure of beating Belgium).

Nunn himself once played as many as six Blacks out of six in an England team event (!) but he wasn't too happy about it ...

[Matt Mackenzie]

Nunn himself once played as many as six Blacks out of six in an England team event (!) but he wasn't too happy about it ...

Then again his amazing performance at the 1984 Olympiad was helped by having nearly all his games as White IIRC?

[Jonathan Rogers]

Interesting match. Keep an eye on board one: nice looking position, SF prefers White but the immdiate plan is not clear and White's clock is running down ...

[Jonathan Rogers]

Nunn himself once played as many as six Blacks out of six in an England team event (!) but he wasn't too happy about it ...

Then again his amazing performance at the 1984 Olympiad was helped by having nearly all his games as White IIRC?

I think so, yes

[Jonathan Rogers]

women's match is up for grabs too. Jovanka stands much worse but I feel optimisic about Louise Head's chances on board four.

[Jonathan Rogers]

Now all four boards seem balanced again (women's match)

(Why am I doing this?!)

[Mick Norris]

Now all four boards seem balanced again (women's match)

(Why am I doing this?!)

Not sure, but it's more informative than the evaluations on chess24live (which have been very volatile in Jovanka's game) so I'm glad you are

[JustinHorton]

I am out shopping this afternoon, and following multiple games on a mobile is horrid anyway, so I second that, it's all good.

[LawrenceCooper]

Now all four boards seem balanced again (women's match)

(Why am I doing this?!)

Commentator's curse