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by Andrew Martin » Wed Jul 04, 2018 7:41 am
The double round day report from Sheikh Nasarullah:
Tuesday was a busy day at Galaxy hotel, Krakow. There were some early breakfasts and coaching sessions as the round was starting at 0930 local time, this was the first early round. There will be similar early rounds on coming Friday and Sunday. So players had less time to prepare.
In the Girls U15 section however, our player Laura was content to have only one round for this day. There are only 12 in this section and hence only 7 rounds will be played (other sections play 9 rounds).
Round 4 started at the designated early hour and players went to business as usual, by now the indication of leaders and top half of the players has started crystallising. There were some interesting games today for England players, live boards looked quite promising at start. In one of the games there was a beautiful Queen lift ( i have seen Rook lifts earlier ) on the Black side of a Dragon and the opponent was taken by complete surprise. However after a stiff resistance by opponent and a very long game the points were split. This game was last to end in the hall.
Overall we had wins from:
O-09 Lohia, Sohum
O-11 Gardiner, Ethan
O-11 Trivedi, Aarnavh
O-13 Aubury, Benjamin
O-13 Dharmasena, Gavith
O-15 Gray, Edward
O-17 Varney, Daniel
and there were draws from
O-11 Auchi, Nadhmi
O-13 Huang, Henry
O-15 Gogia, Armaan
G-11 Mellor, Jessica
G-13 Maladkar, Lavanya
G-15 Davidson, Laura
Round 4 score was therefore 10/18
Round 5 started soon after and again there was not much preperation players could do, there were some long games played and the last to come out were Lavanya and Nadhmi.
The wins were:
O-09 Lohia, Sohum
O-11 Auchi, Nadhmi
O-11 Dharmasena, Kian
O-11 Trivedi, Aarnavh
O-13 Dharmasena, Gavith
G-11 Mellor, Jessica
G-13 Maladkar, Lavanya
The draws were:
O-11 CHEN, Daniel Xingyu
O-13 Huang, Henry
O-13 Orgler, Lukas
O-15 Gray, Edward
O-15 Howell, Oliver W
G-13 Sheikh, Anum
Overall score 10/17 (Laura played Round 4 while others played Round 5)
The day did not end here however, the parents and coaches were seen busy watching the England match in the evening. The hotel lobby looked like we were in England, there were flags flying all over. This lasted longer than expected as the endgame play was poor and a stoppage time equaliser resulted in extra time.
The penalty shoot outs were tense but all ended well. The delegation dispersed happily to spend the rest day and come back stronger for the business end of the tournament.
Thanks
Nas
Last edited by Andrew Martin on Fri Jul 06, 2018 10:08 am, edited 1 time in total.