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Good for Trent taking it on, and for Magnus for playing along

Trent was on Radio 5 live this morning sometime between 7:30 and 8 am I gather

If Mr. Dvorkovic is categorised as a PEP (Politically Exposed Person) for financial regulation purposes, then his international travels could be limited e.g. will he be given a visa to attend the World Chess Championships in London? It's not difficult to check, and yes Arkady Dvorkovich is a PEP bu...

Giri appears to have benefited from working with Kramnik and is heading back towards 2800
Will be interesting to see if he can keep improving

There appear to be five English based teams Wood Green, Blackthorne Russia, 3Cs, Grantham Sharks & White Rose. Have the eligibility rules been weakened? There is or was a rule which said you had to finish in the top half of the national team competition, which in the case of England was interpreted...

Ah, I get what you mean now. I'll leave you to do a relative comparison over the last 30+ years. :mrgreen: Data from Olimpbase . In Olympiads at least, the period from 2004 to 2014 was dire in terms of finishing positions. Which begs the question of what changed, what is going right and what can be...

I'm expecting a just above par performance from England. John Nunn as captain is a big boost. I think Nick Pert & Mickey will be solid, Gawain and especially David will perform well. Luke unpredictable. 2 strong dark horses are Poland and Iran. My prediction to win - China. I thank you 8) Ok, someo...

Board 1 Rk. Name Rtg Team Rp Games Pts. % RtgAvg 1 GM Ju, Wenjun 2561 China 2661 9 7,0 77,8 2441 2 GM Hoang, Thanh Trang 2423 Hungary 2636 10 8,5 85,0 2340 3 GM Dzagnidze, Nana 2509 Georgia 1 2600 10 7,5 75,0 2401 4 GM Muzychuk, Anna 2555 Ukraine 2568 10 7,0 70,0 2417 5 IM Houska, Jovanka 2402 Engla...

Final Ranking after 11 Rounds - Women Rk. SNo Team Team Games + = - TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4 1 3 China CHN 11 7 4 0 18 407,0 30,5 153 2 2 Ukraine UKR 11 7 4 0 18 395,5 30,0 154 3 4 Georgia 1 GEO1 11 7 3 1 17 375,0 28,0 153 4 1 Russia RUS 11 7 2 2 16 379,5 30,5 146 5 13 Hungary HUN 11 7 2 2 16 372,0 29,5 141 ...

Gaprindashvilicup (Best federation = sum (open + women)) Rk. flag Team TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4 1 China 36 779,5 59,0 302 2 Russia 34 734,0 59,5 290 3 Ukraine 34 732,5 56,0 306 4 United States of America 34 720,0 56,5 299 5 India 32 740,5 58,5 298 6 Armenia 32 737,0 54,5 307 7 Poland 32 714,5 57,0 292 8 Fran...

Board 3 Rk. Name Rtg Team Rp Games Pts. % RtgAvg 1 GM Cori, Jorge 2664 Peru 2925 8 7,5 93,8 2459 2 GM Kramnik, Vladimir 2779 Russia 2770 9 6,5 72,2 2604 3 GM Piorun, Kacper 2612 Poland 2765 9 6,5 72,2 2599 4 GM Howell, David W L 2689 England 2760 10 7,5 75,0 2567 Mickey was 15th, Luke 17th and Gawai...

Rk. SNo Team Team Games + = - TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4

1 3 China CHN 11 8 2 1 18 372,5 28,5 149
2 1 United States of America USA 11 8 2 1 18 360,5 29,0 147
3 2 Russia RUS 11 8 2 1 18 354,5 29,0 144
4 11 Poland POL 11 7 3 1 17 390,0 28,0 158
5 9 England ENG 11 8 1 2 17 340,0 27,5 142

Gawain's won and we've finished 5th, wow

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 05, 2018 1:35 pm

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 05, 2018 1:06 pm

Duda has played Karjakin, MVL, Ivanchuk, Shak, Aronian, Caruana, Ding & Vishy in successive rounds; he's earned a rest

His own private super-GM training tournament!

Yes, he only missed Giri of the board 1 possibles (given So, Kramnik & Nakamura weren't on board 1)

Does Gawain's result affect our tie-break? (Computer thinks he is totally lost now after 55...Kg7.) It will affect the tiebreak in absolute terms, but relative to Poland, with whom we are now tied on 17 points, they will quite deservedly finish above us (Duda has played Karjakin, MVL, Ivanchuk, Sha...

Mickey has won, as has David