Olympiad

[John Moore]

Amazing turnaround in Howell's game. If Adams win, he has a great chance to get the board 1 prize if he can do well in the final round (would he even have to play?). Can England still perform to their seeding overall if they win here and in the last round? In the top match, China beat France - any ideas who China will play in the final round?

Chris - I vote you are the man to tell Nosher that he has to play tomorrow on 1.5/5 to ensure Mickey wins the board prize (assuming that is a possibility).

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Amazing turnaround in Howell's game. If Adams win, he has a great chance to get the board 1 prize if he can do well in the final round (would he even have to play?). Can England still perform to their seeding overall if they win here and in the last round? In the top match, China beat France - any ideas who China will play in the final round?

Chris - I vote you are the man to tell Nosher that he has to play tomorrow on 1.5/5 to ensure Mickey wins the board prize (assuming that is a possibility).

Heh. I think Navara will be in contention, so Mickey will probably need to play.

[Lewis Martin]

It is official. Adams won.

[JustinHorton]

Amazing turnaround in Howell's game. If Adams win, he has a great chance to get the board 1 prize if he can do well in the final round (would he even have to play?). Can England still perform to their seeding overall if they win here and in the last round? In the top match, China beat France - any ideas who China will play in the final round?

Chris - I vote you are the man to tell Nosher that he has to play tomorrow on 1.5/5 to ensure Mickey wins the board prize (assuming that is a possibility).

He'd be well within his rights to tell you to get stuffed. Tomorrow is a rest day.

[Lewis Martin]

Incidentally, I have just noticed that Akshaya has scored enough (50%) to get the WCM title. No doubt she will have higher ambitions than that.

[JustinHorton]

There seemed to be a double default in Libya-Pakistan today. What's the story on that?

[Roger de Coverly]

There seemed to be a double default in Libya-Pakistan today. What's the story on that?

Libya only have three players
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr140380. ... =30&wi=821
Pakistan had the players, but the board 2 had only played in two matches.
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr140380. ... =30&wi=821

Perhaps the rule is that you have to be present in order to win by default.

[JustinHorton]

I'd guess so, but in that case you'd wonder why they didn't turn up.

[Barry Sandercock]

The game Adhiban-Baramidze still going after 124 moves ( Rook v. Rook and Knight.) Could be a draw !

[Lewis Martin]

The game Adhiban-Baramidze still going after 124 moves ( Rook v. Rook and Knight.) Could be a draw !

So is Chaves-Chevannes. It too is a Rook and Knight vs Rook coincidentally enough.

[Barry Sandercock]

Both draws (unsurprisingly )

[Lewis Martin]

It's England - Wales in the Women's!

The men have Cuba. Adams will be a worthy board 1 winner if he beats Dominguez!

[Roger de Coverly]

Adams will be a worthy board 1 winner if he beats Dominguez!

Currently in second place behind Topalov according to chess-results.com. Bulgaria face Belarus.

1 GM Topalov, Veselin 2772 Bulgaria 2903 8 6.0 75.0 2710
2 GM Adams, Michael 2740 England 2856 8 6.0 75.0 2663
3 GM Giri, Anish 2745 Netherlands 2811 10 7.0 70.0 2662
4 GM Carlsen, Magnus 2877 Norway 2799 9 6.0 66.7 2674
5 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2743 Azerbaijan 2798 9 6.0 66.7 2673
GM Kasimdzhanov, Rustam 2700 Uzbekistan 2798 9 6.0 66.7 2673

There are chances on 4 and 5 as well

Bd 4

1 GM Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynaldo 2603 Cuba 2791 7 5.5 78.6 2561
2 GM Sedlak, Nikola 2554 Serbia 2760 7 5.5 78.6 2521
3 GM Ni, Hua 2666 China 2740 8 6.0 75.0 2534
4 GM Edouard, Romain 2680 France 2732 8 6.0 75.0 2535
5 GM Howell, David W L 2650 England 2722 9 7.0 77.8 2497

Bd 5

1 GM Shankland, Samuel L 2624 United States of America 2889 9 8.5 94.4 2435
2 GM Moiseenko, Alexander 2707 Ukraine 2719 8 6.5 81.3 2460
3 GM Sadler, Matthew D 2653 England 2641 9 6.5 72.2 2467
4 GM Indjic, Aleksandar 2539 Serbia 2624 7 4.0 57.1 2574
5 GM Van Kampen, Robin 2638 Netherlands 2617 8 5.0 62.5 2507

[IM Jack Rudd]

Incidentally, I have just noticed that Akshaya has scored enough (50%) to get the WCM title. No doubt she will have higher ambitions than that.

She's rated over 2000; she could claim the WCM title anyway if she really wanted it.

[Roger de Coverly]

She's rated over 2000; she could claim the WCM title anyway if she really wanted it.

The chess-results site lists the potential titles and Norms. There's a long list of (W)CM and (W)FM titles up for grabs, relatively few (W)IM and (W)GM Norms though.