European Individual 2010

[David Sedgwick]

Later-ouch! David blundered at move 40, last before the time control, with Re6? (a4! Black is winning) and after Qd5xc5 is now worse.....

And now things have gone even more horribly wrong.

Later - win for Fressinet

[Mike Truran]

Gets into time trouble, blunders......same old same old......

[LozCooper]

Round 8 results:

Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Pts. Name FED Rtg No

10 73 GM Markus Robert SRB 2618 5 5 GM Adams Michael ENG 2704 7 0.5-0.5
14 19 GM Fressinet Laurent FRA 2670 5 5 GM Howell David W L ENG 2612 80 1-0
133 296 IM Medancic Rikard CRO 2311 3 3 GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2474 207 0-1

158 269 FM Platzgummer Fabian AUT 2383 2½ 2½ Tate Alan SCO 2215 326 0.5-0.5
176 286 FM Schiendorfer Emanuel SUI 2340 2 2 Hayes Peter J IRL 2046 363 1-0


3 13 IM Cmilyte Viktorija LTU 2485 5½ 5½ GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO 2447 24 1-0

[LozCooper]

Round 9 pairings:

Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Pts. Name FED Rtg No.

14 7 GM Adams Michael ENG 2704 5½ 5½ GM Edouard Romain FRA 2617 75
50 80 GM Howell David W L ENG 2612 5 5 IM Hovhannisyan Robert ARM 2498 185
122 207 GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2474 4 4 IM Bakalarz Mietek LUX 2300

158 326 Tate Alan SCO 2215 3 3 FM Wintzer Joachim Dr GER 2361 278
189 363 Hayes Peter J IRL 2046 2 2 Gandolfi Gianfranco ITA 1855 387

7 24 GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO 2447 5½ 5½ GM Sebag Marie FRA 2506 6

[Leonard Barden]

Adams is seeded 7 with 22 to qualify for the World Cup payday. 7.5/11 will probably qualify, 7/11 means at best tiebreaks.. But now with 5.5./8 he has R+2 v R+3 on the same side of the board against GM Edouard of France, so looks like 1.5/2 needed. He's cutting it fine.

[Mick Norris]

3 draws with white for the English players, not great

[LozCooper]

Round 9 results:

Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Pts. Name FED Rtg No.

14 7 GM Adams Michael ENG 2704 5½ 5½ GM Edouard Romain FRA 2617 75 0.5-0.5
50 80 GM Howell David W L ENG 2612 5 5 IM Hovhannisyan Robert ARM 2498 185 0.5-0.5
122 207 GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2474 4 4 IM Bakalarz Mietek LUX 2300 0.5-0.5

158 326 Tate Alan SCO 2215 3 3 FM Wintzer Joachim Dr GER 2361 278 1-0
189 363 Hayes Peter J IRL 2046 2 2 Gandolfi Gianfranco ITA 1855 387 1-0

7 24 GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO 2447 5½ 5½ GM Sebag Marie FRA 2506 6 0-1

[LozCooper]

Round 10 pairings:

Rd. Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Pts. Name FED Rtg No.

14 76 GM Khairullin Ildar RUS 2617 6 6 GM Adams Michael ENG 2704 7
50 150 GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 2542 5½ 5½ GM Howell David W L ENG 2612 80
114 266 IM Kreisl Robert AUT 2389 4½ 4½ GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2474 207

143 326 Tate Alan SCO 2215 4 4 IM Barle Janez SLO 2415 244
172 316 Bente Bjoern GER 2245 3 3 Hayes Peter J IRL 2046 363

21 68 WGM Nebolsina Vera RUS 2310 5½ 5½ GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO 2447 24

[Phil Makepeace]

7.5/11 will probably qualify, 7/11 means at best tiebreaks.

So Howell needs 2/2, with a likely white in the final round to come. Very doable.

[LozCooper]

Round 10 results:

Rd. Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Pts. Name FED Rtg No.

14 76 GM Khairullin Ildar RUS 2617 6 6 GM Adams Michael ENG 2704 7 1-0
50 150 GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 2542 5½ 5½ GM Howell David W L ENG 2612 80 0-1
114 266 IM Kreisl Robert AUT 2389 4½ 4½ GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2474 207 0.5-0.5

143 326 Tate Alan SCO 2215 4 4 IM Barle Janez SLO 2415 244 0.5-0.5
172 316 Bente Bjoern GER 2245 3 3 Hayes Peter J IRL 2046 363 1-0

21 68 WGM Nebolsina Vera RUS 2310 5½ 5½ GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO 2447 24 1-0

[David Sedgwick]

So Adams is probably out of it, but Howell has a chance. He's recovered well from the Fressinet debacle.

[LozCooper]

So Adams is probably out of it, but Howell has a chance. He's recovered well from the Fressinet debacle.

As well as yesterday's disappointment. He has amazing spirit and fighting qualities to recover from setbacks so I'm really pleased he still has a chance. I'm obviously gutted for Mickey though.

[LozCooper]

Round 11 final round pairings:

32 70 GM Gelashvili Tamaz GEO 2621 6½ 6½ GM Howell David W L ENG 2612 80
38 7 GM Adams Michael ENG 2704 6 6 GM Zhigalko Andrey BLR 2587 105
117 207 GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2474 5 5 FM Boehnisch Manfred GER 2316 294

137 248 FM Petre Nad-Titus ROU 2410 4½ 4½ Tate Alan SCO 2215 326
186 363 Hayes Peter J IRL 2046 3 3 Lekic Lazar MNE 1849 388

25 24 GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO 2447 5½ 5½ WGM Kursova Maria RUS 2296 77

[LozCooper]

7.5/11 will probably qualify, 7/11 means at best tiebreaks.

So Howell needs 2/2, with a likely white in the final round to come. Very doable.

Mission accomplished, 2/2 with a double black to finish on 7.5/11. The tie-breaks await.

[Mick Norris]

Fantastic results from David (I'm not good enough to judge the quality of his play)

I thought the draw had been unkind giving him 2 blacks to finish, so very impressed with these results - good luck to him in the tie-breaks