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The 2010 European Individual starts tomorrow in Rijeka Croatia. There are 420 players in the mens event including English Grandmasters Mickey Adams, David Howell and Keith Arkell. Alan Tate from Scotland and Peter Hayes from Ireland are playing and Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant plays in the womens event.

I believe there are 22 qualifying places for the world championship available; the strength of the tournament can be measured by the fact that David Howell is 80th seed!

The tournament website can be found here: http://www.eurorijeka2010.com/home/ and pairings, results and the list of players are likely to be via this link: http://chess-results.com/tnr29567.aspx?lan=1

First round pairings are as follows:

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

Men:

5 207 GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2474 0 0 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco ESP 2708 5
7 209 IM Shytaj Luca ITA 2472 0 0 GM Adams Michael ENG 2704 7
80 80 GM Howell David W L ENG 2612 0 0 IM Morchiashvili Bachana GEO 2345 282

122 122 GM Ragger Markus AUT 2572 0 0 Tate Alan SCO 2215 324
159 361 Hayes Peter J IRL 2046 0 0 GM Szabo Gergely-Andras-Gyula ROU 2525 159

Women:

24 24 GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO 2447 0 0 WIM Yildiz Betul Cemre TUR 2244 103

Arkell, Adams and Arakhamia-Grant will all be on the live games this afternoon starting 2.30 UK time.

Leonard Barden wrote:Arkell, Adams and Arakhamia-Grant will all be on the live games this afternoon starting 2.30 UK time.

Have you been able to view any of the mens games? The women's live feed is working for me but the mens isn't although the Adams game is on icc but no moves in the Arkell game there

LozCooper wrote:Have you been able to view any of the mens games? The women's live feed is working for me but the mens isn't although the Adams game is on icc but no moves in the Arkell game there

All the DGT games were linked on the same server - it was NEVER going to cope with the load!

Carl Hibbard wrote:

LozCooper wrote:Have you been able to view any of the mens games? The women's live feed is working for me but the mens isn't although the Adams game is on icc but no moves in the Arkell game there

All the DGT games were linked on the same server - it was NEVER going to cope with the load!

It's working but very gingerly. If you want to watch the top game of each group then it's okay but flicking between games is not proving very fruitful

LozCooper wrote:It's working but very gingerly. If you want to watch the top game of each group then it's okay but flicking between games is not proving very fruitful

Your need a lot of kit to broadcast something like that but I do blame the DGT people - the way their software works hinders people providing the hosting in my opinion

Keith got beat. Boo.

Round 1 results:

Men:

5 207 GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2474 v GM Vallejo Pons Francisco ESP 2708 5 0-1
7 209 IM Shytaj Luca ITA 2472 v GM Adams Michael ENG 2704 7 0-1
80 80 GM Howell David W L ENG 2612 v IM Morchiashvili Bachana GEO 2345 282 1-0

122 122 GM Ragger Markus AUT 2572 0 0 Tate Alan SCO 2215 324 1-0
159 361 Hayes Peter J IRL 2046 0 0 GM Szabo Gergely-Andras-Gyula ROU 2525 159 0-1

Women:

24 24 GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO 2447 0 0 WIM Yildiz Betul Cemre TUR 2244 103 1-0

Round 2 pairings:

Rd. Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name FED Rtg No. Group
2 5 7 GM Adams Michael ENG 2704 1 1 GM Jankovic Alojzije CRO 2569 126 MEN
2 55 173 GM Djukic Nikola MNE 2509 1 1 GM Howell David W L ENG 2612 80 MEN
2 126 326 Tate Alan SCO 2215 0 0 GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2474 207 MEN

2 166 269 FM Platzgummer Fabian AUT 2383 0 0 Hayes Peter J IRL 2046 363 MEN
2 126 326 Tate Alan SCO 2215 0 0 GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2474 207 MEN

Women:

2 20 78 WGM Vojinovic Jovana MNE 2296 1 1 GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO 2447 24 WOMEN

Round 2 results:

Rd. Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name FED Rtg No. Group
2 5 7 GM Adams Michael ENG 2704 1 1 GM Jankovic Alojzije CRO 2569 126 MEN 1-0
2 55 173 GM Djukic Nikola MNE 2509 1 1 GM Howell David W L ENG 2612 80 MEN 0-1
2 126 326 Tate Alan SCO 2215 0 0 GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2474 207 MEN 0-1

2 166 269 FM Platzgummer Fabian AUT 2383 0 0 Hayes Peter J IRL 2046 363 MEN 0.5-0.5
2 126 326 Tate Alan SCO 2215 0 0 GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2474 207 MEN 0-1

Women:

2 20 78 WGM Vojinovic Jovana MNE 2296 1 1 GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO 2447 24 WOMEN 0-1

Round 3 pairings:

Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name FED Rtg No. Group
3 89 GM Potkin Vladimir RUS 2606 2 2 GM Adams Michael ENG 2704 7
26 80 GM Howell David W L ENG 2612 2 2 IM Skoberne Jure SLO 2509 175
134 207 GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2474 1 1 Cucancic Sinisa CRO 2271 310

161 363 Hayes Peter J IRL 2046 ½ ½ IM Rukavina Josip CRO 2409 249
176 377 Nakas Spyridon GRE 1949 0 0 Tate Alan SCO 2215 326

Women:

6 24 GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO 2447 2 2 IM Romanko Marina RUS 2409 31

Good result for Peter Hayes there.

Indeed. Rukavina played in an Interzonal once

Peter, drew with Platzgummer he is playing Rukavina next

Round 3 results:

Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name FED Rtg No. Group
3 89 GM Potkin Vladimir RUS 2606 2 2 GM Adams Michael ENG 2704 7 0.5-0.5
26 80 GM Howell David W L ENG 2612 2 2 IM Skoberne Jure SLO 2509 175 0-1
134 207 GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2474 1 1 Cucancic Sinisa CRO 2271 310 1-0

161 363 Hayes Peter J IRL 2046 ½ ½ IM Rukavina Josip CRO 2409 249 0.5-0.5
176 377 Nakas Spyridon GRE 1949 0 0 Tate Alan SCO 2215 326 0-1

Women:

6 24 GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO 2447 2 2 IM Romanko Marina RUS 2409 31 1-0

Round 4 pairings:

Pairings of the next round for ENG
Bo. No. Name FED Rtg Pts. Pts. Name FED Rtg No.

7 7 GM Adams Michael ENG 2704 2½ 3 IM Martinovic Sasa CRO 2509 174
64 198 GM Mrva Martin SVK 2485 2 2 GM Howell David W L ENG 2612 80
67 87 GM Rodshtein Maxim ISR 2609 2 2 GM Arkell Keith C ENG 2474 207

171 298 FM Zelic Mladen CRO 2306 1 1 Hayes Peter J IRL 2046 363
142 326 Tate Alan SCO 2215 1 1 IM Cioara Andrei-Nestor ROU 2430 232

Women:
1 24 GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO 2447 3 3 GM Kosintseva Tatiana RUS 2524 4