2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

[Gary Ruben]

Re: Tromso Olympiad 2014 Women

You'll have to ask him.

To me it looked like his opponent could have made another 50 or more moves wasting time. The match was already lost. Possibly the team captain told him to resign. It's team play.

[Emil Smilovici]

Re: Tromso Olympiad 2014 Women

Ouch!!

Preliminary pairings have the men playing Black against Venezuela tomorrow. The women play White against Slovenia.

Steve

Jordan - Palestine might be an interesting clash for some.
I wonder who's boycotting who in this one ?

Otherwise, in the second round game: Sambuev's ending of B&p vs N&2p - did anyone find the truth ?
Someone with access to the Lomonosov ending tablebases ?
Or it was a loss on time ?

[Andrei Botez]

Re: 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

Bator


Nava (I am not sure)


Viktor


Aris

[Gary Ruben]

Re: reply? BDS likely cannot be stopped.

In this country BDS is getting registered charities reviewed by the CRA. No reason people should get tax deductions for donations supporting BDS and my taxes should pay for it.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle19763308/

Coincidently, postal workers are losing their jobs to community mail boxes.

[Nigel Hanrahan]

charming, and some advice

... you have a tendency to pollute every thread with your politics.

Charming as always, huh? If you don't want to address my arguments then simply ignore them.

[Steve Douglas]

Re: Tromso Olympiad 2014 Women

Tromso Olympiad 2014 Women

Round Three
August 4, 2014

I had to check to see that the Starr – Pires game score was correct.


Tromso Olympiad 2014 Women
Round Three
Angola-Canada Match
Board 4
Starr, Nava (CAN) – Pires, Luzia (ANG)
C46 Three Knights Game

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Bc5 4. Nxe5 Bxf2 5. Kxf2 Nxe5 6. d4 Qf6 7. Kg1 Ne7 8. dxe5 Qb6 0-1

Ouch!!

Preliminary pairings have the men playing Black against Venezuela tomorrow. The women play White against Slovenia.

Steve

[Sid Belzberg]

Re: Visa Crisis at the 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

it would be good if you gave the same advice to other contributors on this thread. Otherwise, it might lead a person to conclude that you're simply trying to silence views you don't agree with.

I agree that other contributor including myself should at least leave this thread restricted to the olympiad. As I said he addressed it to you because as others have said you have a tendency to pollute every thread with your politics.

[Nigel Hanrahan]

Re: Visa Crisis at the 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

Please keep this thread on-topic to the Olympiad. Put the politics in another thread.

it would be good if you gave the same advice to other contributors on this thread. Otherwise, it might lead a person to conclude that you're simply trying to silence views you don't agree with.

[Nigel Hanrahan]

Guyanese player denied visa over terror watch list.

more Visa developments. A player from Guyana has been denied a Norwegian visa.

Local chess champion Taffin Khan has been refused a visa to travel to Norway to participate in the 41st Biennial Chess Olympiad after his name turned up on an international terrorist watch-list when his team travelled to Suriname to apply for visas.

See Chess champ denied Norway visa over terror watch-list

This really looks like a case where a person has the same name as someone else. However, getting your name off a watch list is more difficult than getting into Kafka's famous castle.

Taffin Khan's rating is 1807 which is just under the rating of the highest rated player on their team at 1828 (A. Drayton). He is the 3-time National Chess Champion of Guyana.

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: Visa Crisis at the 2014 Tromsø Chess Olympiad

Please keep this thread on-topic to the Olympiad. Put the politics in another thread.

[Nigel Hanrahan]

reply? BDS likely cannot be stopped.

World opinion IS rapidly changing as the BDS campaign is growing by leaps and bounds. After all, peaceful protest is always better than violence. That's my view. It may only be a matter of time, especially given recent horrors in Gaza, that what happened to South Africa will also happen to Israel. Public opinion among young people in the USA is also changing. And young people are the future.

I mentioned up-thread (I think) that the President of the IOC is also a BDS campaigner. Look the other way if you wish.

[Sid Belzberg]

Re: Tromso Olympiad 2014 Open

Umm. They alternate boards. If Canada has "White" in a given round then they will play White on boards 1 and 3, and play Black on boards 2 and 4. Hansen played Black on board 2.

Steve

Here is the link i have with the games and scores from the Olympaid website. My mistake, alternating colors score Canada 2.5 Thailand 1.5

https://chess24.com/en/olympiad2014/...014open/3/44/1

[Steve Douglas]

Re: Tromso Olympiad 2014 Open

Canada was white on all boards against Thailand. So the score for Hansen incorrectly shows him playing black. Final score Canada 2.5 Thailand 1.5

Umm. They alternate boards. If Canada has "White" in a given round then they will play White on boards 1 and 3, and play Black on boards 2 and 4. Hansen played Black on board 2.

Steve

[Rene Preotu]

Re: Tromso Olympiad 2014 Women

Tromso Olympiad 2014 Women

Tromso Olympiad 2014 Women
Round Three
Angola-Canada Match
Board 4
Starr, Nava (CAN) – Pires, Luzia (ANG)
C46 Three Knights Game

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Bc5 4. Nxe5 Bxf2 5. Kxf2 Nxe5 6. d4 Qf6 7. Kg1 Ne7 8. dxe5 Qb6 0-1

Maybe CFC should change the selection procedures for the Olympian team. Especially this rule:

iii) Have played at least 10 regular CFC rated or FIDE rated games during the year prior to the start of the selection process (which begins 180 days before the start of the Olympiad).

[John Coleman]

Re: Tromso Olympiad 2014 Open

Canada was white on all boards against Thailand.

Really? Why would that be?