European Team Chs in Warsaw

[LawrenceCooper]

Let's hope the men fare better than when we faced them in round 2 of the last European Team

Best wishes to the women, I've never seen 3...e5 as played in Anya's game before

[Roger de Coverly]

Best wishes to the women, I've never seen 3...e5 as played in Anya's game before

Trompovsky theory gets weirder by the year. The sequence 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bf4 e5 has been seen in a few recent games.

[Nick Burrows]

Howell worryingly using lots of time.

[Mike Truran]

A bit of a shocker from both England teams today.

[Mike W. Richardt]

It doesn't look good for Russia today!!!
Also my home country doesn't too well either: Germany is on the verge of loosing!!!

[Mike W. Richardt]

Scotland might be in for a surprise
Ok, they are 0-1 down at the moment but the rest of the games don't look to shabby!!!

Edit: 1-0 up and one game to be about to lose!

[LawrenceCooper]

Bo. 25 Poland Futures Rtg 4-0 23 England Rtg :
14.1 WIM Kulon, Klaudia 2276 1-0 WFM Chevannes, Sabrina L 2200
14.2 WIM Iwanow, Anna 2206 1-0 WGM Corke, Anya S 2276
14.3 WFM Wisniowska, Klaudia21531-0 WFM Grigoryan, Meri 2039
14.4 WCM Wozniak, Mariola 2069 1-0 WFM Bhatia, Kanwal K 2039

Bo. 15 GREECE 3 ENGLAND 1
4.1 GM BANIKAS, Hristos 2633 1/2-1/2 GM ADAMS, Michael 2752
4.2 GM PAPAIOANNOU, Ioannis 2639 1-0 GM MCSHANE, Luke J 2696
4.3 GM MASTROVASILIS, Dimitrios 2589 1/2-1/2 GM JONES, Gawain C B 2648
4.4 GM KOTRONIAS, Vasilios 2564 1-0 GM HOWELL, David W L 2644

[Matt Mackenzie]

Maybe we *are* better off giving McShane some Blacks after all.....

[benedgell]

When was the last time both Russian teams lost on the same day?

[James Plaskett]

re the report that Vallejo Pons opened with 1h3 - as stated on thread´s 1st page - O the ignominy that as British Champion and when in the act of defending the title the following year I was defeated by that move!

[Jonathan Rogers]

re the report that Vallejo Pons opened with 1h3 - as stated on thread´s 1st page - O the ignominy that as British Champion and when in the act of defending the title the following year I was defeated by that move!

Are you sure, Jim? I remember you losing three games in Eastbourne 1991 (Hodgson, Rossiter, Agnos) but you were only Black v Hodgson who, of course, played the Tromp.

I did face 1 h3 in Eastbourne 1991, and did lose (I replied 1...b5) Mr Basman even published the game in one of his books ..

[Mike W. Richardt]

It's a shame that Scotland couldn't win that match but I guess they are happy with the team draw!!!

[Jonathan Rogers]

A good result indeed. Anyone else notice that the Scottish board one Graham Morrison has now drawn with two GMs who average around 2600, and that the GM with whom he drew in round one went on to beat Grischuk today in the dramatic Turkey v Russia match?

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 3:

Open:

8 RUSSIA v ENGLAND (echoes of 2011 when England lost to Greece and then got Armenia)

Women:

England v Czech Republic

[Andrew Bak]

Why did Mamedyarov resign in Mamedyarov-Topalov from Round 2? Is Topalov's king going to march up the board to deliver some checkmate neither I or Houdini can see?