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World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad 2016 - Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia
Re: World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad 2016 - Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia
Rd. 4 pairings Canada - Croatia
CM Chen, Richard 2259 - FM Livaic, Leon 2447
Bellissimo, Joseph F. 2100 - FM Muha, Miljenko 2257
CM Talukdar, Rohan 2051 - Cvitan, Ena 2030
WCM Ouellet, Maili-Jade 1947 - Radenic, Filip 2083
Looks like WCM Ouellet, Maili-Jade 1947 - Radenic, Filip 2083 * could well be the last (of this http://sach2.csprint.sk/wyco2016/r4/sector2/noflash.htm round) to finish, if the live pgn reports are correct. According to that, Canada's top 2 boards drew and Rohan Talukdar appears to have won with white, so a draw or better in her above game would give Canada an extra match-point, along with the team's individual total player-by-player score for the round perhaps (at least, but assuming Ouellet doesn't need to lose...) equaling that of their 1st round result.
Re: World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad 2016 - Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia
Rd. 5 pairings Canada - Singapore
CM Chen, Richard 2259 - FM Lee, Qing Aun 2250
Bellissimo, Joseph F. 2100 - CM Woong, Zhi Wei William 2008
Song, Ziyuan (sam) 2049 - Lau, Ende Matthew 1880
CM Talukdar, Rohan 2051- Lee, Jun Wei 1856
Re: World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad 2016 - Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia
Probably, the Championship match Russia-Iran in the next round. Both teams use the "man only" strategy. I would like to see match Iran - Israel in one of the remaining rounds.
For the first 2 rounds Russia had a girl at board 4 and she won both games.
Iran "tried" to play with a girl at board 4 in the 2nd round but she forfeited because of the "zero tolerance" rule.
For the first 2 rounds Russia had a girl at board 4 and she won both games.
Iran "tried" to play with a girl at board 4 in the 2nd round but she forfeited because of the "zero tolerance" rule.
Was that zero tolerance of women? ;)
Seriously, she arrived late for the match??
Re: World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad 2016 - Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia
Looks like the team is 3.5/4 (updated...) so far after the rest day for the morning games (or at least what results the live feed was showing - without yet having taken any bye, Richard Chen's game (2/5) was still ongoing (updated - he's now at 2.5/6), and Rohan Talukdar (2/4) had the bye against Finnish team), with one more to be reported on later. The 2nd 7th round (of 9 total) should end by about mid-afternoon (Eastern time) today. Maili-Jade Ouellet (1.5/4), Sam (Ziyuan) Song (3.5/5) and Joseph F Bellissimo (2.5/5) all picked up some wins for the extra TB2 points and match-point.
So the Hungary 2 team (FIDE master Gabor Gorcsi, 2263; Adam Bohus, 2200; Bence Pribelszky, 2162; Women's FIDE master Judit Egyed, 2107; Judit Kovacs, 2114) appears to paired against the team (see photos below) for the 7th round:
Re: World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad 2016 - Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia
2-2 against Hungary 2
After 7 rounds Canada has 8 match point 2+ 4= 1-
If Iran wins against Belarus (it's 2 - 1 and the last board looks like a draw) I don't think they can lose the 1st place.
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