European Team Championship November 2023

[John Moore]

And Ravi Haria comes in on Board 4 in place of Luke McShane. A big test for Ravi.

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 8 on 2023/11/19 at 15.00
Bo. 10 Serbia Rtg - 4 England Rtg 0 : 0
1.1 GM Predke, Alexandr 2661 - GM Vitiugov, Nikita 2712
1.2 GM Sarana, Alexey 2669 - GM Howell, David W L 2676
1.3 GM Markus, Robert 2582 - GM Adams, Michael 2670
1.4 GM Ivic, Velimir 2557 - GM Haria, Ravi 2508

Bo. 4 Ukraine Rtg - 13 England Rtg 0 : 0
6.1 GM Ushenina, Anna 2425 - WIM Yao, Lan 2344
6.2 IM Buksa, Nataliya 2377 - IM Hunt, Harriet V 2315
6.3 IM Gaponenko, Inna 2335 - WGM Toma, Katarzyna 2193
6.4 GM Zhukova, Natalia 2308 - FM Kalaiyalahan, Akshaya 2176

[Mark Howitt]

I'm actually going to be wearing my Yorkshire chess jumper while watching the matches today... annoyed to see Haria playing over McShane...

[Jonathan Rogers]

Unless Luke is unwell, it is a "brave" call.

[LawrenceCooper]

Unless Luke is unwell, it is a "brave" call.

I believe that's the reason and he's not the only England player that has been unwell.

[Jonathan Rogers]

That's a shame.

Presumably not the risotto again?

[Thomas Rendle]

Short match today!

[LawrenceCooper]

Short match today!

The lack of repetitions made me suspect it was just a DGT glitch.

[Thomas Rendle]

There have been a few of those around. I was a bit worried that both teams had been hit by illness or something, but glad to see it was a false alarm!

[LawrenceCooper]

Predke-Vitiugov was a draw in 25 moves.

[Jonathan Rogers]

Could you update frustrated would-be chess 24 users on the other boards?

[LawrenceCooper]

Could you update frustrated would-be chess 24 users on the other boards?

Adams drew. David is a pawn up but I'm expecting a draw. Board 4 appears beyond salvation sadly, a pawn down and black has activity, better pieces etc The games are on LiChess if you want to catch the end.

[Jonathan Rogers]

Reconnected now. Looks like we are paying a price for Luke's illness, unfortunately.

[Jonathan Rogers]

(I hadn't seen your post, Loz, thanks for the reply)

[Jonathan Rogers]

Serbia was actually the best team we beat in the Olympiad last year (I think, as ever). I still wonder whether they finished higher than us. Obviously a tougher outfit than their ratings suggest.