Pula Open (Croatia) 2018

[Mick Norris]

Ravi leads by half a point going into today's penultimate round; he plays his second GM today; if he gets another tomorrow is a GM norm possible?

English players

round 8 live at 3:30 pm UK time; round 9 tomorrow at 10 am UK time

[Richard Bates]

Ravi leads by half a point going into today's penultimate round; he plays his second GM today; if he gets another tomorrow is a GM norm possible?

No. Average of opposition has to be at least 2380.

[Mick Norris]

Thanks Richard; hopefully Ravi can win the event and boost his rating on the process

[Martin Crichton]

Ravi has played in an incredible number of tournaments is the past 8-10 months...if he continues at this rate I expect he will be a GM before the end of 2018 . He is Cavendish's new star player as well as our youngest player by several decades!

[LawrenceCooper]

Ravi has played in an incredible number of tournaments is the past 8-10 months...if he continues at this rate I expect he will be a GM before the end of 2018 . He is Cavendish's new star player as well as our youngest player by several decades!

I hope you are right and confess to some bias as his final IM norm and first GM norm both came for my 4NCL team in 2016-17. One of the challenges he does face is finding tournaments where there are realistic chances of a norm. He starts university in October which sadly rules him out of a norm opportunity at the European Club Cup.

[LawrenceCooper]

Joe is white tomorrow v Dan Fernandez who was with Joe in both the Hungarian events so a quick draw might be possible

Andy has black v an IM which takes him closer to the titled player requirement

My view this morning was they could both draw their way to the norm Fingers crossed they get there

Lots of hard work by both of them to get to this point

A round 8 draw for Joe means that playing a 2220 or higher should be a norm tomorrow.

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 9 on 2018/06/30 at 11:00
Bo. No. Name Typ FED Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Typ FED Rtg No.
1 7 IM Haria Ravi ENG 2440 6½ 6½ GM Fernandez Daniel Howard ENG 2485 3
2 8 GM Fercec Nenad CRO 2436 6½ 6½ IM Gumularz Szymon U18 POL 2452 5
3 19 FM Ostovic Matija CRO 2352 6 6 GM Saric Ante CRO 2543 1
4 2 GM Zelcic Robert CRO 2499 6 6 IM Filipovic Branko S60 SUI 2378 15
5 13 IM Zufic Miroslav CRO 2384 6 6 IM Plenca Jadranko CRO 2482 4
6 6 GM Tratar Marko SLO 2449 6 6 FM Mcphillips Joseph ENG 2399 12
7 14 IM Franic Milan CRO 2379 6 6 IM Loncar Robert CRO 2423 9
8 20 FM Krsnik Cohar Ivan Vihor CRO 2309 6 6 FM Horton Andrew P ENG 2407 11

[Mick Norris]

Cheers Loz; I assume that means Joe is there even with a loss?

Does Andy need to win?

[IM Jack Rudd]

Andy's facing an effective 2323 field, making his norm target 5½/8. He needs a draw.

[Mick Norris]

Cheers Jack

[David Robertson]

Andy's facing an effective 2323 field, making his norm target 5½/8. He needs a draw

If he's worth it, he gets it. And he will

[Chris Rice]

Nice piece Chess: Trio of young English experts impress at Pula Open in Croatia by Leonard Barden in the Guardian online:

"Success in Pula reflects well on the English Chess Federation’s elite programme, which provides an annual grant to the best talents to be spent on coaching, books, or travel to tournaments and which has benefited all the winning group in Croatia."

[LawrenceCooper]

Nice piece Chess: Trio of young English experts impress at Pula Open in Croatia by Leonard Barden in the Guardian online:

"Success in Pula reflects well on the English Chess Federation’s elite programme, which provides an annual grant to the best talents to be spent on coaching, books, or travel to tournaments and which has benefited all the winning group in Croatia."

Yes, a welcome positive report on England's young players albeit Daniel is born in 1995 and definitely not 27!

[Leonard Barden]

Nice piece Chess: Trio of young English experts impress at Pula Open in Croatia by Leonard Barden in the Guardian online:

"Success in Pula reflects well on the English Chess Federation’s elite programme, which provides an annual grant to the best talents to be spent on coaching, books, or travel to tournaments and which has benefited all the winning group in Croatia."

Yes, a welcome positive report on England's young players albeit Daniel is born in 1995 and definitely not 27!

The typo has been corrected, thanks to Loz for pointing it out.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/ ... en-croatia

[LawrenceCooper]

1 IM Haria, Ravi (6½) 2440 ½ - ½ GM Fernandez, D. (6½) 2485
6 GM Tratar, Marko (6) 2449 ½ - ½ FM McPhillips (6) 2399
8 FM Krsnik Cohar (6) 2309 ½ - ½ FM Horton, A. P. (6) 2407