European Individual Chess Championship Mar 21st - 3rd Apr

[LozCooper]

Parings and results should be available here:

http://chess-results.com/tnr45941.aspx?zeilen=99999

Round 1 starts tomorrow at what I assume is 14:00 English time.

[Sean Hewitt]

Correct Loz. Start time is 3pm local time, with zero default time in operation.

[LozCooper]

Correct Loz. Start time is 3pm local time, with zero default time in operation.

I'd like to thank the tournament website for trying to give me a heart attack by posting a headline on their site alleging that four of the English GMs hadn't registered and would therefore not be included in the draw. Completely untrue as it turned out they had registered several hours earlier

[LozCooper]

Round 1 pairings for English players:

Bo. No. Name Pts. Result Pts. Name No.

10 208 IM Houska Jovanka 0 0 GM Dreev Aleksey 10
16 214 IM Battaglini Gabriel 0 0 GM Mcshane Luke J 16
86 286 Chapman Terry P D 0 0 GM Kovacevic Aleksandar 86
104 304 Sahitaj Naim 0 0 GM Jones Gawain C B 104
127 127 GM Yakovich Yuri 0 0 Webb Matthew D 328
142 343 Koch Alain 0 0 GM Conquest Stuart C 142
159 160 GM Flear Glenn C 0 0 Billotti Romain 361
167 168 GM Wells Peter K 0 0 Schrader Edmond 369

http://www.aixlesbains2011.fr/EuroActus ... AixR01.pdf

[LozCooper]

Jovanka and Luke's games are available via the links below:

http://euro1.echecs.asso.fr/TOMA/
http://euro2.echecs.asso.fr/TOMA/

whilst boards 21-50 are also available by amending the above links to euro3, euro4 and euro5 as required.

[Mick Norris]

Excellent results today

http://chess-results.com/tnr45941.aspx? ... -1&wi=1000

[LozCooper]

Excellent results today

http://chess-results.com/tnr45941.aspx? ... -1&wi=1000

Well spotted, I'd been waiting for them to appear

Round 1 results:

Rd. Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No. Group
1 10 205 IM Houska Jovanka 2419 0 0 - 1 0 GM Dreev Aleksey 2697 10
1 16 211 IM Battaglini Gabriel 2413 0 0 - 1 0 GM Mcshane Luke J 2683 16
1 86 282 Chapman Terry P D 2242 0 1 - 0 0 GM Kovacevic Aleksandar 2598 86
1 127 127 GM Yakovich Yuri 2546 0 ½ - ½ 0 Webb Matthew D 2062 324
1 159 159 GM Flear Glenn C 2498 0 1 - 0 0 Billotti Romain 1827 356
1 166 166 GM Wells Peter K 2487 0 1 - 0 0 Schrader Edmond 1757 364
1 104 284 Sahitaj Naim 2235 0 0 - 1 0 GM Jones Gawain C B 2578 104
1 142 339 Koch Alain 1975 0 0 - 1 0 GM Conquest Stuart C 2529 142

Great results for Terry Chapman beating a 2598 GM and to Matthew Webb for drawing with a 2546 GM

[LozCooper]

Round 2 pairings for English players:

Rd. Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No. Group

2 6 16 GM Mcshane Luke J 2683 1 1 GM Sedlak Nikola 2556 119 0.5-0.5
2 45 62 GM Vuckovic Bojan 2626 1 1 GM Flear Glenn C 2498 159 1-0
2 53 70 GM Ivanisevic Ivan 2617 1 1 GM Wells Peter K 2487 166 0.5-0.5
2 83 104 GM Jones Gawain C B 2578 1 1 Chapman Terry P D 2242 282 1-0
2 32 142 GM Conquest Stuart C 2529 1 1 GM Tkachiev Vladislav 2646 47 0.5-0.5
2 116 312 Heinis Vincent 2122 0 0 IM Houska Jovanka 2419 205 0-1
2 108 324 Webb Matthew D 2062 ½ ½ Denisov Ivan 2300 249 0-1

[Andrew Wainwright]

Great results for Terry Chapman beating a 2598 GM and to Matthew Webb for drawing with a 2546 GM

Excellent result Matty, keep it up mate!

[Sean Hewitt]

And happily no defaults. In fact, having seen zero defaults in action now, it's nowhere near as bad as I had feared it would be.

[Gareth Harley-Yeo]

And happily no defaults. In fact, having seen zero defaults in action now, it's nowhere near as bad as I had feared it would be.

Would you consider it at an e2e4 event?

[Sean Hewitt]

And happily no defaults. In fact, having seen zero defaults in action now, it's nowhere near as bad as I had feared it would be.

Would you consider it at an e2e4 event?

No, it's unnecessary for us.

But for a major event with sponsors present, players staying locally etc, I have seen that it can actually work. I was fearful beforehand, let me tell you!

I am sure that sponsors expect to see (and are pleased to actually see) two players at every board at the start of play!

[LozCooper]

And happily no defaults. In fact, having seen zero defaults in action now, it's nowhere near as bad as I had feared it would be.

Would you consider it at an e2e4 event?

No, it's unnecessary for us.

But for a major event with sponsors present, players staying locally etc, I have seen that it can actually work. I was fearful beforehand, let me tell you!

I am sure that sponsors expect to see (and are pleased to actually see) two players at every board at the start of play!

Do they announce five minutes to start time etc as seems be the case at most FIDE governed events?

[Alan Walton]

There was also a great result for the Scot Clement Shreeves (2125ish) against the Italian GM Daniele Vocaturo (2564), he won

[LozCooper]

There was also a great result for the Scot Clement Shreeves (2125ish) against the Italian GM Daniele Vocaturo (2564), he won

The results of the Scottish players can be followed here: http://chess-results.com/tnr45941.aspx? ... -1&wi=1000

I'm very pleased they don't use accelerated pairings as it gives players like Matthew and Clement and Terry a chance to play and take points of the GMs.