European Youth Championships 2014

[Jim Wadsworth]

28 players will be representing England at this year's EYCC in October. Please meet them at http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/play ... -the-team/

You can keep up with their exploits via the ECF website and on Twitter - follow @ECFEYCC2014

[Jim Wadsworth]

The excellent group of coaches has now been added to the team list on the ECF site

[John Higgs]

Good luck to all players & coaches travelling to Batumi today for the first round tomorrow.

Twitter feed: @ECFEYCC2014

[LawrenceCooper]

Good luck to all players & coaches travelling to Batumi today for the first round tomorrow.

Twitter feed: @ECFEYCC2014

Especially those currently sampling an eight hour stopover in Istanbul airport

[Jim Wadsworth]

Especially those currently sampling an eight hour stopover in Istanbul airport

Even more so for those who found themselves being bumped off an overbooked flight, being put onto a flight into a different city and then having to endure their luggage going astray followed by a 4 hour coach ride plus a 2 hour wait to cross the land border between Turkey and Georgia. Still we are all here now

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 1 pairings are now available:

http://chess-results.com/tnr144973.aspx ... =30&wi=984

[Ian Thompson]

Especially those currently sampling an eight hour stopover in Istanbul airport

Even more so for those who found themselves being bumped off an overbooked flight, being put onto a flight into a different city and then having to endure their luggage going astray followed by a 4 hour coach ride plus a 2 hour wait to cross the land border between Turkey and Georgia. Still we are all here now

Hopefully, those affected had their flights on a single ticket from the UK so they can claim flight delay compensation under EU regulation 261/2004.

[Nick Burrows]

Pavel's game is live

[Matthew Turner]

Cosima's game is also live

[Mike Truran]

Intriguing website address. Has Sean gone international?

[Martin Crichton]

http://myip.ms/info/whois/80.241.246.25 ... te/e2e4.ge

Website hosted in Georgia

Unless Sean patented his e2e4 chess website worldwide (I'd guess he didn't but open to correction) I'd hazard a guess and say some others have just set up another e2e4 site in another country.

[Martin Crichton]

Ireland's rising star Connor O' Donnell (2233) is also playing in the u-16.

[Jim Wadsworth]

Round 1 results:

Section Name
U8B Haolin Zhao 0.5
U8G Navi Haridas 0
U10B Aditya Verma 0
U10B Adithya Pramod Paleri 0.5
U10G Thivyaa Rahulan 0
U10G Anita Somton 1
U12B Koby Kalavannan 1
U12B Zheming Zhang 0
U12B Charlie McLaren 0.5
U12B Sacha Brozel 0
U12B Anantha Anilkumar 0
U12B Alex Golding 0.5
U12B James Moreby 0
U14B Matthew Wadsworth 1
U14B Pavel Asenov 0
U14B Giri Haridas 0
U14B Josh Higgs 0.5
U14B Theo Slade 0
U14B Richard Zhu 1
U14G Akshaya Kalaiyalahan 1
U16B Ravi Haria 0
U16G Cosima Keen 0
U16G Vickie Sit 0
U16G Zoe Varney 0.5
U18B Ezra Kirk 0.5
U18B John Fraser 0
U18G Amy Hoare 1
U18G Katherine Shepherd 0

Team total score 9.5 (35% of the available 27 points)

Post-game analysis still going strong...

[LawrenceCooper]

Individual cumulative scores after 2 rounds:

Player
Section Name Total
U8B Haolin Zhao 1.5
U8G Navi Haridas 0
U10B Aditya Verma 0.5
U10B Adithya Pramod Paleri 0.5
U10G Thivyaa Rahulan 0
U10G Anita Somton 2
U12B Koby Kalavannan 1
U12B Zheming Zhang 1
U12B Charlie McLaren 0.5
U12B Sacha Brozel 1
U12B Anantha Anilkumar 0
U12B Alex Golding 1.5
U12B James Moreby 1
U14B Matthew Wadsworth 2
U14B Pavel Asenov 1
U14B Giri Haridas 0
U14B Josh Higgs 0.5
U14B Theo Slade 0.5
U14B Richard Zhu 1.5
U14G Akshaya Kalaiyalahan 2
U16B Ravi Haria 1
U16G Cosima Keen 1
U16G Vickie Sit 0
U16G Zoe Varney 1
U18B Ezra Kirk 1.5
U18B John Fraser 0
U18G Amy Hoare 1
U18G Katherine Shepherd 1

Team total score 24.5


Round 3 pairings at http://chess-results.com/tnr144973.aspx ... =30&wi=984

[Jonathan Rogers]

Nice that we have so many of our best players available for this. In principle. But really, the ratings of their opponents seem lower than ever - and assuming them to be mainly under-rated, the event seems to be even more of a rating trap than ever (exacerbated by the new K-factor of 40).

And it is a further disappointment that there seem to have been three games already between English players. What do the coaches do in that situation?!