Batumi Olympiad

[Christopher Kreuzer]

He doesn't need much time in the positions he will be in soon. 42 Rd7 plays itself, just need to be careful of any tricks. Could be 3½ - ½.

He went for the other move! (42.Bb6) I think that was the wrong choice. Harder to play on the increment, surely?

[Simon Brown]

Well, he's racked up three minutes already and if he can extract his king, it looks pretty easy.

[Tim Harding]

Armenia have beaten India.
Shankland only drew but a US win looks on the cards now, despite a probable Hikaru downer.
Status at 4.20: England ought to win as we have three favourable positions.
China are more likely to win their match than France are to win theirs (2-2 looks on the cards but Bacrot still trying).

In the Women's, the Irish ladies bounced back from a whitewash yesterday to beat IPCA 2.5-1.5 despite resting the top board and being outrated in every game.

[JustinHorton]

and if he can extract his king

How is he going to do that?

[Roger de Coverly]

How is he going to do that?

chessbomb stockfish was suggesting playing f4, then following g4xf3 ep playing Kf2 and being able to recapture by getting the Bishop to move off the defence. I wouldn't be sure how White makes progress after that and the stockfish doesn't have much to suggest other than just moving around.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Luckily Jones is riding to the rescue (courtesy of his opponent misplaying the position).

Though 52...Ke6 is a critical move for Gawain to find. Anything else is probably drawn. (Phew, he played it.)

[JustinHorton]

Which is just as well because Mickey isn't

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Fingers crossed Gawain knows what is going on. Looks like he does (charge the Black king up the board).

[EDIT: Chess is hard, isn't it? Kf4 versus Kd4... Will Salomon find f4?]

[JustinHorton]

USA v Poland hotting up

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Some of those lines in Salomon-Jones are really hard to calculate when short of time. Gawain clearly winning again and hopefully a simple win now.

[Kevin Thurlow]

Chess 24 says Mickey has lost, which seems unlikely. Elsewhere they have an obviously drawn position given as a win. It is confusing.

[LawrenceCooper]

Some of those lines in Salomon-Jones are really hard to calculate when short of time. Gawain clearly winning again and hopefully a simple win now.

Gawain has won.

[Roger de Coverly]

Chess 24 says Mickey has lost, which seems unlikely.

White's King is on d4 in the final position. If you put a Black King on e5, does that signal a Black win to the DGT board? A draw is e4 and e5, is it not?

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Chess 24 says Mickey has lost, which seems unlikely. Elsewhere they have an obviously drawn position given as a win. It is confusing.

Horrendous blunder on move 63 by Duda against Caruana.

[Tim Harding]

Chess 24 says Mickey has lost, which seems unlikely. Elsewhere they have an obviously drawn position given as a win. It is confusing.

Naka's game was being shown as a draw with the online evaluation +5 for Piorun. it's been fixed now.

I'll have to turn on Sopiko's commentary.

She said at first Adams lost but maybe she was just going on what the screen says. Draw is showing now but they are talking about David's game.