2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

R6 pairings for men:

18 9 ISR Israel 13½ 7 : 7 12 Canada CAN 37

Time to win against stronger teams. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Tromso Olympiad 2014

Great results, games, and Anton almost made a real upset :) John Upper definitely will find a win for the next magazine LOL

[Andrei Botez]

Re: Tromso Olympiad 2014

Round 5 ( Credit Qiyu Zhou and others)

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

Not registering with a full/real name is enough to remove them.

[Roger Patterson]

Re: Tromso Olympiad 2014

You know what embarrassment that I go to school principal and beg him to open chess club at school and he say and too much trouble and I say I’ll volunteer go through the criminal check, I’ll do tuberculosis test whatever need to help to introduce chess club, and he still say it’s too much trouble. And we see what we are agreeing here about, maybe for what somebody gets paid, I assume. Chess is not introduced to younger generation in Canada.

Plus it's Midnight Sun in Norway.

It's the same guy who questioned why Bator was a GM. He's a goof and you should ignore him.

[Bill Evans]

Re: 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

There is a reasonable chance that Canada will be paired with Norway?

[Gary Ruben]

Re: 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

The tied match against the 6th seeded USA is a great result!!!

[Vlad Rekhson]

Re: 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

Great results for Canadian teams today!

[David Ottosen]

Re: Rd. 5: 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

Great result for the Canadian team, well done!

[Steve Douglas]

Re: 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

On move 78 Aman turned down an offer to go into an opposite colour bishop endgame 2 pawns down.

Question. If he accepted the offer, could he hold the draw?

I ran a shootout of the game through various chess engines after Black's move 58. Fritz and Hiarcs showed draws at lower plies but a win for White at higher plies. Houdini showed it as a win for white for plies 3-9, a draw at 11 plies, and a win for White at high plies.

Regarding what would happen following an exchange of rooks at move 78, Houdini (without tablebases) showed a win for White at all depths (but not necessarily the same win).

Checking the position against tablebases, it's a forced win for White in 21 moves if he takes the rook with the bishop. It's a forced win for White in 23 moves it he captures with the king.

Steve

[Sid Belzberg]

Re: 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

On move 78 Aman turned down an offer to go into an opposite colour bishop endgame 2 pawns down.

Question. If he accepted the offer, could he hold the draw?

i don't think so because he would have to sacrifice the bishop for the f pawn and unfortunately white's bishop is the same color as the queening square for the a pawn else it was a chance for a draw.

[Jack Maguire]

Re: Rd. 5: 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

Sam Shankland, the youngest (22) and lowest rated member of the U.S. team, has certainly been saving their bacon. After winning that tough endgame against Aman today, he's a perfect 4/4. Nakamura, on board 1, now stands at 2/3 and Kamsky, rested today, has but 1.5/4. Akobian is also only 1.5/4 after his loss to Bator today.

[Emil Smilovici]

Re: Rd. 5: 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

It ended 2-2. It is still a very, very good result.
Go Team Canada!

[Bob Armstrong]

Rd. 5: 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

Sambuev just won! Fantastic!!

Congratulations Bator!

Can the rest of the team bring home the points needed for a win? Go for it guys!

Bob A

[Garland Best]

Re: 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

On move 78 Aman turned down an offer to go into an opposite colour bishop endgame 2 pawns down.

Question. If he accepted the offer, could he hold the draw?