European Youth Championships 2018

[Richard Bates]

Began yesterday

http://chess-results.com/tnr367945.aspx ... ES&flag=30

[Mick Norris]

Akshaya on board 1 at about 1:15 pm chess24 live

[NickFaulks]

Akshaya on board 1 at about 1:15 pm chess24 live

Well played game, draw against the top seed. 37.g3 acceded to the draw when according to the computer 37.Qc1 was very strong, and it is presumably right, but that still isn't obvious to me even after analysing at leisure. Good result.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Akshaya on board 1 at about 1:15 pm chess24 live

Well played game, draw against the top seed. 37.g3 acceded to the draw when according to the computer 37.Qc1 was very strong, and it is presumably right, but that still isn't obvious to me even after analysing at leisure. Good result.

Maybe because 37.Qc1 prevents the threatened mate, takes control of the c-file and leaves Black with only the useless check on d3, as White has the impending 38.Re6 to take control of the e-file and/or see the rooks swapped. If Black tries 37...Rb8, then White can play 38.Rg6+ as the tactics now work (and Black has no perpetual either at the end). And Rf8 can be met by Qe1.

[NickFaulks]

In Nishchal Thatte's round 4 game I was hoping that the result was shown incorrectly and in fact a draw was agreed, but apparently not. Pity, it was a very good effort.

[John Higgs]

The European Youth Chess Championship started on 20th August and runs to 29th August. The event is a 9 round FIDE rated tournament for U8s through to U18s. The venue is Riga in Latvia.

The England delegation is 27 players and 7 coaches. The team can be viewed at:

https://www.englishchess.org.uk/Juniors ... hips-2018/

Round reports, photographs and PGNs are been seen at : https://www.englishchess.org.uk/Juniors ... amps-2018/

The event website is https://www.eycc2018.eu/

The chess-results link for the event (tab across for your chosen age group) is:

http://chess-results.com/tnr367940.aspx ... ES&flag=30

Latest news, photographs etc can be seen via the twitter feed : @ECFJuniors2018

No twitter account? You can follow the twitter feed via this link https://mobile.twitter.com/ECFJuniors2018

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Not all results in yet for round 5, but Nishchal Thatte leading the way on 4/5. Koby Kalavannan on 3.5/5 and still undefeated (he went the last 8 rounds of the British without losing, so if this is the next FIDE-rated event he played next after that tournament, he is on a run of 13 games undefeated so far).

[Mick Norris]

Round 6 at 1:15 pm has Nishchal Thatte (U10) on board 5, Akshaya (U18 girls) on board 6, with Harry Zheng on board 7 and Max Bird on board 8 in the U8

[NickFaulks]

Excellent round 7 game by Akshaya. Her opponent was ok for so long as she kept finding the best moves but the moment she didn't, lights out.

[David Shepherd]

Has someone has been disqualified for cheating using a mobile phone? (no idea what country/section)

[Alex Holowczak]

Has someone has been disqualified for cheating using a mobile phone? (no idea what country/section)

Yes, the Austrian who had hitherto been leading the Under 14s on 5.5/6: http://chess-results.com/tnr367949.aspx ... ES&flag=30

Details are not yet in the public domain other than that the player was disqualified, and that the incident involved a mobile phone in a toilet. There has been a comment online that a statement will be published soon with more details.

[Kevin Thurlow]

"Has someone has been disqualified for cheating using a mobile phone? "

I do hope nobody will start whining that he should be let off as he's a junior.

[Richard Bates]

"Has someone has been disqualified for cheating using a mobile phone? "

I do hope nobody will start whining that he should be let off as he's a junior.

http://www.chess.at/

[LawrenceCooper]

Potential English medal chances in the last round:

Under 18 girls:

Round 9 on 2018/08/29 at 11:00
Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 14 WIM Dimitrova Aleksandra 2166 7½ 6½ WIM Kiolbasa Oliwia 2213 9
2 10 WFM Afonasieva Anna 2193 6 6 WGM Obolentseva Alexandra 2301 2
3 15 FM Kalaiyalahan Akshaya 2138 6 6 WFM Palma Maria 2075 23
4 13 WFM Hrescak Ivana 2185 5½ 5½ WFM Olde Margareth 2127 18

Under 8 girls:

Round 9 on 2018/08/29 at 11:00
Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 7 Mgeladze Kesaria 1243 6 7 WCM Zubkovskaya Ekaterina 1371 2
2 19 Lajdamik Kinga 1072 6 6 Iudina Veronika 1194 9
3 45 Sreeram Yashasvini 0 5½ 6 Preobrazhenskaya Diana 1294 5
4 8 Korneva Elizaveta 1208 5½ 5½ Trunz Tamila 0 48
5 11 Kuznecova Marija 1138 5½ 5 Hnatyshyn Anastasiia 1355 3

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Using Google Translate:

Unfortunately, it came yesterday in the context of the U14 competition at the European Championships to an unpleasant incident. As part of a check was found in the Turniernbenräumen a cell phone, which was assigned to Marc Morgunov. His game (draw) was scored with a loss, a draw for today is not done for him. After consultation with national youth coach Siegi Baumegger Marc was completely removed from the ÖSB from the tournament. The ÖSB does not tolerate fraud in sport, we will in any case after the return of the team interview, make an investigation of the incident and derive from it any disciplinary action, but in the aspect that it is a 13-year-old teenager. Christian Hursky, President