England Olympiad pairings

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James Friar Jnr
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Re: England Olympiad pairings

Post by James Friar Jnr » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:35 pm

Looks like the majority of our players had some easy games by their standards to start with!
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Re: England Olympiad pairings

Post by Roger de Coverly » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:41 pm

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:
LawrenceCooper wrote:Round 4 pairings: France-England & Indonesia-England
What happened last time England men played France?
Howell v Feller and (allegedly) a lot of carefully constructed spectating.
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Re: England Olympiad pairings

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:43 pm

Roger de Coverly wrote:
Christopher Kreuzer wrote:
LawrenceCooper wrote:Round 4 pairings: France-England & Indonesia-England
What happened last time England men played France?
Howell v Feller and (allegedly) a lot of carefully constructed spectating.
Goodness, reminds me of that thread that seems to have vanished! :shock: (Yeah, I know most people won't know what this refers to, but hey, need to remind myself it did exist).
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Roger de Coverly
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Re: England Olympiad pairings

Post by Roger de Coverly » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:02 pm

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: Goodness, reminds me of that thread that seems to have vanished! :shock: (Yeah, I know most people won't know what this refers to, but hey, need to remind myself it did exist).
In which you asked about ECF procedures.

Andrew Farthing wanted to introduce something.
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-conte ... onduct.doc
It didn't get discussed at the April meeting, so the status of the proposal is unknown.
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Re: England Olympiad pairings

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:13 pm

Roger de Coverly wrote:
Christopher Kreuzer wrote: Goodness, reminds me of that thread that seems to have vanished! :shock: (Yeah, I know most people won't know what this refers to, but hey, need to remind myself it did exist).
In which you asked about ECF procedures.

Andrew Farthing wanted to introduce something.
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-conte ... onduct.doc
It didn't get discussed at the April meeting, so the status of the proposal is unknown.
Yeah. Pity that. For the avoidance of doubt, the thread that vanished (which contained allegations of cheating in English chess) was nothing to do with the Olympiad (neither the previous one or this one). The point is that such things should be dealt with elsewhere, not here (court of public opinion, anarchic internet forums, etc.).
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Re: England Olympiad pairings

Post by Mark Howitt » Fri Aug 31, 2012 3:22 am

I hope England really do the cheating French... playing well so far!
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Re: England Olympiad pairings

Post by LawrenceCooper » Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:59 am

Round 4 pairings:

Bo. 8 France Rtg - 11 England Rtg 0 : 0
4.1 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2686 - GM Adams, Michael 2722
4.2 GM Fressinet, Laurent 2714 - GM Jones, Gawain 2653
4.3 GM Edouard, Romain 2652 - GM Short, Nigel 2698
4.4 GM Bauer, Christian 2682 - GM Howell, David 2635

Bo. 54 Indonesia Rtg - 44 England Rtg 0 : 0
28.1 WFM Medina, Warda Aulia 2218 - WGM Corke, Anya 2254
28.2 WIM Sihite, Chelsie Monica 2162 - WFM Yurenok, Maria 2058
28.3 WFM Citra, Dewi 2143 - WFM Hegarty, Sarah 2120
28.4 Aay, Aisyah Anisa 1818 - WFM Chevannes, Sabrina 2090
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Re: England Olympiad pairings

Post by David Sedgwick » Fri Aug 31, 2012 9:56 am

Mark Howitt wrote:I hope England really do the cheating French
That's an outrageous comment. The episode came to light only because of action taken by the FFE (French Chess Federation). The French players and arbiters whom I know are appalled by the behaviour of the three miscreants.
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Re: England Olympiad pairings

Post by Jonathan Rogers » Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:00 am

Mark Howitt wrote:I hope England really do the cheating French... playing well so far!
Hmm. Whilst their captain and one of their players have been found to have cheated the last time we played them , on the other hand the rest of the team and the federation had uncovered them and went to some expense and legal aggravation to prove their point. I don't think the Frenchmen we are playing today have anything to be guilty or ashamed about. Compare Ireland v France - the next time they play football, the Irish can really talk about the cheating French because the whole of their team went along with Henry's no-goal.

(I see now that David S has just made the same point)

Incidentally Chessbase report today that we won our "derby" match v Cuba. If anyone has the slightest idea what they are talking about, do tell!
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Re: England Olympiad pairings

Post by Jonathan Rogers » Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:12 am

I am going to appear obsessed with Chessbase now. They also refer to the "young Indian GM Pentala Harikrishna". I am glad to learn that he has retained his youth from the time when he shadowed the leaders in the British Championships of 1998. He seemed to be his mid twenties when I played him in 2006 and I had wondered whether he had since got even older!
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Re: England Olympiad pairings

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:05 pm

"Incidentally Chessbase report today that we won our "derby" match v Cuba. If anyone has the slightest idea what they are talking about, do tell!"

The best I can come up with is that we're both small islands quite close to large continents, with whom we have an uneasy relationship?

But then we could have a derby match with New Zealand!
"Kevin was the arbiter and was very patient. " Nick Grey
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Re: England Olympiad pairings

Post by Matthew Turner » Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:18 pm

I hope David (Howell) will not mind me saying this, but I'm sure I'll be one of many people wishing France the very best of luck on board 4 today.
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Re: England Olympiad pairings

Post by Simon Brown » Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:26 pm

Matthew Turner wrote:I hope David (Howell) will not mind me saying this, but I'm sure I'll be one of many people wishing France the very best of luck on board 4 today.
Agreed. Frankly I'm amazed he is even playing.
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Re: England Olympiad pairings

Post by Paul Dargan » Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:29 pm

Matthew Turner wrote:I hope David (Howell) will not mind me saying this, but I'm sure I'll be one of many people wishing France the very best of luck on board 4 today.
I'm amazed that he's playing at all


Paul.
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Re: England Olympiad pairings

Post by David Sedgwick » Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:41 pm

Simon Brown wrote:
Matthew Turner wrote:I hope David (Howell) will not mind me saying this, but I'm sure I'll be one of many people wishing France the very best of luck on board 4 today.
Agreed. Frankly I'm amazed he is even playing.
GM Bauer actually played yesterday - he drew with GM Nikolov of Bulgaria.
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