2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

[Andrei Botez]

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Where did you get that picture? Is there a live stream?

Was live here

[Kerry Liles]

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10$ a sandwich at 7- eleven.
Yura is the 3rd Canadian who made it to Tromso.

Do we know yet whether everyone on the two Canadian Teams made it to Tromso??
I saw a tweet from Eric Hansen that his luggage made it only as far as Paris, but he
managed to get to Tromso ... Seems that a lot of people left it to the last minute
(by scheduling their trip that way, not necessarily due to bad weather, delays etc)

[Andy Shaw]

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Canadian flag presented during opening ceremony
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Where did you get that picture? Is there a live stream?

[Wayne Komer]

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Tromso Olympiad 2014

Chess.com has just posted Top 10 Questions about the Chess Olympiad by Peter Doggers:

http://www.chess.com/news/top-10-que...-olympiad-7431

The questions are What?, Who?, When?, Where? and Fantasy Chess; What Can Go Wrong? and the next FIDE President are also discussed.

This is the ninth question:

9. What will happen at the Bermuda Party?

Traditionally, the night before one of the rest days, there is the “Bermuda Party,” a big party organized by FIDE's Nigel Freeman of Bermuda. It became especially (in)famous after an incident in Turin in 2006, where English GM Danny Gormally hit GM Levon Aronian after the Armenian's future girlfriend Arianne Caoili started to dance with him.

This year Caoili won't be attending the Olympiad, but who knows what will happen at this year's Bermuda Party? As co-editor Mike Klein wrote: “I once had to promise all my friends that the entire night was off the record in Dresden, 2008.”

The feature ends reminding the reader that the Olympiad in 2016 will be in Baku, Azerbaijan.

[Andrei Botez]

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Canadian flag presented during opening ceremony

[Andrei Botez]

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There better have 2 pieces of bread for those prices. (Traditional sandwiches are open face, only 1 piece of bread. Even in the vending machines at the train station when I went in 1993 (I bought 2 to make 1 sandwich).]

10$ a sandwich at 7- eleven.
Yura is the 3rd Canadian who made it to Tromso.

[Andrei Botez]

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Canadian chess friend and many times participant in Canadian events, WGM Nino Maisuradze - current France women champion and #3 on France FIDE w list was not selected for Olympic team by team captain GM Matthieu Cornette!
Article in chessbase

[Andrei Botez]

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Good luck Qiyu!

Alexandra is also in Tromso with out luggage.

Hope this video will help.

[Felix Dumont]

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Worse news from Qiyu Zhou (via Facebook) :

It's 6.15pm, and we haven't boarded yet from Ottawa. Our boarding time in Newark is 7.15pm, EWR-OSLO, any Canadian players who happen to be on the same flight as us, Could you please help us inform the flight attendants and ask the flight hold for a while? Urgent! Qiyu's mom

[Andrei Botez]

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luggage lost in Paris but made it to Tromso. Hope I will get my bags by tomorrow or I may be forfeited for hygiene

From Eric twitter

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

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chessqueen.com/russian-womens-team-is-ready-for-tromso-chess-olympiads.html
The Russian women team enjoys some free time before battles.

[Erik Malmsten]

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Tromso 2014

... In the picture of a restaurant menu I note these prices:

Club Sandwich 152 NOK (Norwegian Kroner), which is 25.85 CAD

Bacon and Cheese Burger 182 NOK or 30.94 CAD

Cheese Cake 69 NOK or 11.73 CAD

There better have 2 pieces of bread for those prices. (Traditional sandwiches are open face, only 1 piece of bread. Even in the vending machines at the train station when I went in 1993 (I bought 2 to make 1 sandwich).]

[Caesar Posylek]

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I wouldn't be eating the Hestebiff burgers. :D

That's not in the topic!!

[Gary Ruben]

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Teach a man to fish and so on.

I wouldn't be eating the Hestebiff burgers. :D

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

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Teach a man to fish and so on.