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Canada is paired with Mauritius in round 1. The ladies face Barbados.
Mauritius:
1 FM Phillips Roy 2272 MRI
2 CM Chinasamy Devarajen 2085 MRI
3 CM Li Ying Patrick 2125 MRI
4 Goorsahye Antoine 1760 MRI
5 Koster Jeroen Louis 1846 MRI
Barbados:
1 WCM Blackman Katrina 1627 BAR
2 Murray Donna 1454 BAR
3 WCM Ramsay Sheena 1579 BAR
4 Nurse Lydia 1364 BAR
Tromso trivia:
1) Tromso's latitide is 69.68 degrees N. That is slightly further north than Murmansk (Russia) and Inuvik (NWT, Canada), and only slightly further south of the northernmost point in Alaska (Barrow). Iqaluit is 63.75 degrees N.
2) It never gets dark from mid-May to mid-August.
3) Due to the mountains, the sun is not visible from late November to late January.
4) Murmansk (Russia) is the only city north of the Arctic Circle with a larger population (305,000 vs 70,000).
5) "Record" high temperature is 30.2 C; "record" low is -18.4 C.
6) Temperatures during the Olympiad will range between 10 C and 22 C.
From what I can see, it looks like Round One starts at 15:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time) and subsequent rounds at 14:00 CEST.
I always seem to be out an hour in my calculations but to me there is six hours time difference, so 15:00 is 9:00 A.M. Toronto/Montreal/New York City time and 14:00 is 8:00 A.M.
Bo. 123
Mauritius (MRI) - Canada (CAN)
36.1 FM Phillips, Roy 2272 - GM Kovalyov, Anton 2622
36.2 CM Li Ying, Patrick 2125 - IM Gerzhoy, Leonid 2473
36.3 Goorsahye, Antoine 1760 - GM Sambuev, Bator 2528
36.4 Koster, Jeroen Louis 1846 - IM Hambleton, Aman 2458
Just a few rating points allowed Israel to avoid meeting Iraq, Syria, Yemen, or Libya in round 1.
It would be more embarrassing for the Israelis to be faced with the Palestinian team, as the latter might simply boycott the match and refuse to show up. Then other, bigger problems could follow, and quickly too.
I would not be at all surprised if other teams thought about boycotting the Israelis. World opinion is rapidly changing here. However, the tournament may have specific rules about no-shows, as such actions, and counter-actions by the organizers, could rapidly escalate and ruin the event.
Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
It would be more embarrassing for the Israelis to be faced with the Palestinian team, as the latter might simply boycott the match and refuse to show up. Then other, bigger problems could follow, and quickly too.
I would not be at all surprised if other teams thought about boycotting the Israelis. World opinion is rapidly changing here. However, the tournament may have specific rules about no-shows, as such actions, and counter-actions by the organizers, could rapidly escalate and ruin the event.
It would be more embarrassing for the Russians to be faced with the Ukranian team, as the latter might simply boycott the match and refuse to show up. Then other, bigger problems could follow, and quickly too.
I would not be at all surprised if other teams with sanctions against Russia thought about boycotting the Russians. World opinion is rapidly changing here. However, the tournament may have specific rules about no-shows, as such actions, and counter-actions by the organizers, could rapidly escalate and ruin the event.
See Nigel. Anyone can write the kind of sh*t you posted. Boiler plate with a few word changes.
Anyone can write ... Boiler plate with a few word changes.
Well, you certainly can. However, despite the NATO state-sponsored bullhorn campaign against the "Rooskies", the latter are not the subject of universal and genuinely global BDS campaigns, extreme and lengthy isolation at the U.N. (contrast that with the recent vote, e.g., even on the Ukrainian crisis had a large number of abstentions despite the violent arm-twisting by the U.S. and its client states and institutions), etc. The NATO sanctions are already boomeranging, e.g., serious harm is being done to the German economy, though Uncle Sam could care less, and this is bound to continue with the BRICS Development Bank, closer relations with China, India, Iran, Brasil, Latin America in general, etc., etc., etc..
Even the extreme cold warrior G. Kasparov had to admit that the absence of the defending champion Russian Women's team would be a great loss for chess, after the unsuccessful attempts to exclude that team fell flat on its face.
The politics of the upcoming FIDE meeting may still spill over into the Olympiad, and players cannot help but have thoughts about conflicts that are currently going on, but it is to be hoped that the competition will stay a sporting one. That was the ideal of the founding of organizations like the IOC, FIFA, FIDE, etc., and I see no reason not to continue to support that ideal.
Having said that, it is worth noting that the current elected President of the IOC, Thomas Bach, has been criticized in the pages of the Jerusalem Post for "aiding the Israel boycott". I don't think it's much of an exaggeration to suggest that if such a person can get elected as the Head of the IOC, then Israel, much more than Russia, should be worried about possible future exclusion from bodies such as FIDE, FIFA, and the IOC. In 1961 apartheid South Africa was expelled from FIFA and in 1964 from the IOC. While I can't find any evidence of expulsion from FIDE, I think we all know about the mass boycott of the 1976 chess Olympiad in Israel in which only 48 of the over 90 FIDE members attended the competition. Again, these facts suggest that Israel has had and likely continues to have much more to worry about than Russia in regard to any future BDS campaigns.
Last edited by Nigel Hanrahan; Saturday, 2nd August, 2014, 01:48 PM.
Reason: supplemental
Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
I can see where your sympathies lie but trying to transfer them to the Olympiad is simply wrong headed. At the top levels of play concentrating on chess is more helpful than balancing chess and political considerations. The anticipation of whom to boycott and if the pairings will occur.
You might not recall, but the record shows Germany won the Olympiad in 1939. WINNING IS EVERYTHING. Boycotts are useless.
I can see where your sympathies lie but trying to transfer them to the Olympiad is simply wrong headed.
You made the claim that Israel and Russia were pretty well in the same boat here. Even at the height of the current NATO campaign, it's pretty easy to see that that is not the case.
I generally agree with keeping politics out of sport but sometimes events take over. For example, the cruel treatment meted out to US Gold medalist Tommie Smith, Bronze medalist John Carlos and Silver medalist Auzzie Peter Norman was way out of propertion to their defiant salute in honour of African-American struggles in Mexico in 1968. See Dave Zirin's book for more about this.
You might not recall, but the record shows Germany won the Olympiad in 1939. WINNING IS EVERYTHING. Boycotts are useless.
The anti-apartheid movement of South Africa made specific reference to the importance of the boycott campaign in their successful struggle to end the apartheid regime without a protracted and violent civil war. When he was released from almost 3 decades of imprisonment, Nelson Mandela did so as well. The boycott made a difference.
In any case, that's a bit of a strange example wrt the Olympiad that you've chosen to emphasize. Germany's loss was Argentina's gain, and, for example, the current world record of 45 simultaneous blindfold games (by Miguel Najdorf) is an Argentinian record, not a German one, as a result of the throng of Jewish players who chose to stay in Argentina rather than return to Nazi cruelties.
correction! Najdorf played for Poland, not Germany. However, he was part of a group of players that stayed in Argentina following the Olympiad.
In any case, enjoy the Olympiad. Go, Canada Go!
Last edited by Nigel Hanrahan; Saturday, 2nd August, 2014, 02:21 PM.
Reason: correction thanks to JKM
Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
Botswana 2-1 vs Greece with one game to go. Must be one of the greatest upsets ever, even if they lose the last N ending. At least I assume the scores are right (perhaps wrongly).
Last edited by Tom O'Donnell; Saturday, 2nd August, 2014, 02:19 PM.
"Tom is a well known racist, and like most of them he won't admit it, possibly even to himself." - Ed Seedhouse, October 4, 2020.
I think boycotts tend to be most effective against lesser powers such as apartheid-era South Africa. The Western boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics accomplished nothing other than depriving many athletes of their best chance at a gold medal, and causing the counter-boycott of the 1984 L.A. Games.
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