Dresden Olympiad

[Sean Hewitt]

So, who should be and who's going to be in the England teams?

I presume British and English champions Stu Conquest and Keith Arkell are in based on their summer triumphs, together with Gawain Jones and David Howell based on rating. Not sure who else.

What do you think?

[TomChivers]

Bob Wade?

[John Moore]

Sponsorship? Adams and Short at the top of the team would like pretty good.

[Sean Hewitt]

Sponsorship? Adams and Short at the top of the team would like pretty good.

True - if we can afford them.

[John Moore]

Should ask Mr Mol

[John Moore]

Think maybe Hebden rather the Arkell if there's a choice

[Roger de Coverly]

It's now only 5 boards so finance and availability permitting, I would expect the likely team to be :-

Adams
Short
Howell
Jones
Conquest

[Mick Norris]

Think maybe Hebden rather the Arkell if there's a choice

Why?

[John Moore]

It's a close call, I agree, but Mark played well in the last European teams in 2007. He started with 5 out of 7 including a win against Illescas, Admittedly he then faded and lost in the last two rounds against Georgia (Pantsulaia) and Ukraine (Volokytin) but with a plus score against a strong field, I would give him another chance.

Anyway if as Roger says it's only going to be 5, then if the money is there and the players are all available, Roger's 5 will be the team.

[Mick Norris]

Hebden had a relatively poor record in Olympiads, so it is not clear to me why he was selected for the Euro teams (then again, England selection has generally been poor, as results show)

Arkell's performance in the Euro Club in 2007 was good
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr7697.as ... =-1&snr=33

and 2006 was not bad either
http://www.olimpbase.org/2006c/2006hmk.html

http://www.olimpbase.org/
gives full details

Personally, if available I would like to see the younger players given a chance, Jones, Howell, Gordon, Haslinger all seem to be improving, but I'm not sure what it says if you don't play your own English champions

[Gavin Strachan]

Would we really need to stump up money to field Adams and Short for the Olympiad to get them to play? In the olympics, there is no prize money and people are falling over backwards to compete. The people who compete make money through all the other events they compete in and endorsements.

[Mick Norris]

What is the actual team?

Deadline for submission of team members was yesterday

[IM Jack Rudd]

M.Adams
N.Short
D.Howell
G.Jones
S.Conquest

[Alasdair MacLeod]

http://www.englishchess.org.uk/national ... _sep08.htm

Excellent news, well done to the ECF for making this possible.

[Mick Norris]

Liverpool continues to have a major effect on English chess

Quite a coincidence, I recommended LV= for the first time to a client at the end of last week, makes me more pleased with that decision!

I visited the World Museum yesterday, very impressive, the chess was excellent and my 3 year old daughter met Nigel Short