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Now that ChessTalk has settled down after two earlier losses of a month’s postings, I am reposting both the Men’s (Open) and Women’s Rounds of the Baku Olympiad for their historic value.
There are only my round posts and, unfortunately, not the comments and responses of other members of our group.
They are from WORD docs and should pose no contamination risk to our forum.
1. Nigeria – Russia
2. U.S.A. – Andorra
3. Kosovo – China
4. Azerbaijan 1 – Zimbabwe
5. Ukraine – Jordan
6. Iraq – Poland
7. France – Guatemala
8. Bolivia – India
9. Hungary – Japan
10. Morocco – Netherlands
11. Norway – Wales
12. Thailand – Germany
13. Spain – Syria
14. Nicaragua – Cuba
15. Israel – Barbados
16. Malaysia – Czech Republic
17. Croatia – Lebanon
18. El Salvador – Turkey
19. Georgia – Myanmar
20. Pakistan – Latvia
21. Bulgaria – Sudan
22. Puerto Rico – Belarus
23. Serbia – Trinidad and Tobago 24. Honduras – Canada
25. Argentina – Jamaica
26. Panama – Greece
27. Azerbaijan 2 – Mozambique
28. Libya – Slovenia
29. Romania – Malta
30. Brunei – Uzbekistan
31. Vietnam – Cyprus
32. Tunisia – Brazil
33. Peru – South Korea
34. Sri Lanka – Moldova
35. Italy – Namibia
The Honduran team Canada will be facing is:
1. Guillen Ramirez, Antonio (2269)
2. Colindres, Daniel (2166)
3. Gavarrete, Nahun (2149)
4. Huguet, Sergio (2099)
5. Medina, Ricardo (2016)
Note:
In the first round England, seeded 6th is playing IBCA, the International Braille Chess Association
At one time, there was a mixup in the transmission of moves and it looked like England was losing heavily to the IBCA! One surprise – Bulgaria’s tied match with Sudan.
Karjakin played top board for Russia. Caruana didn’t play in the match vs Andorra. MVL did not play against Guatemala. I hear that he is only going to take top board as Black. Giri played against Morocco but Carlsen did not play vs Wales.
Ivory Coast-Mexico is indeed scored as 4-0
These are the results on the four boards:
1. Mambe, Olivier (CIV)-Hernandez, Gilberto (MEX) 1-0 after one move
2. Capo Vidal, Uriel (MEX)-Manan, Hermann (CIV) 0-1 after six moves
3. Ble, Hubert (CIV)-Cofre, Nestor (MEX) 1-0 after 15 moves
4. Garcia, Antonio (MEX)-Monney, Jean Michel (CIV) 0-1 with no moves
The organizers knew that Angola, Madagascar, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Eritrea, and Central African Republic wouldn't arrive in Baku in time so these countries were not paired. However, Malawi, Cameroon, Mali, Haiti, Mexico, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Burundi, Senegal, Gambia, Congo, Djibouti, and Lesotho all also lost 4-0 due to no shows.
Forfeits aside, Bulgaria were the only team out of 152 favourites to fail to win in Round 1 of the 2016 Baku Olympiad. Despite Veselin Topalov doing the business on top board, the 22nd seeds were held to a 2:2 draw by 110th seeds Sudan. Elsewhere there was a swathe of 4:0 whitewashes for the top teams, though not without some close scrapes. The Game of the Day was a sparkling win for Chinese prodigy Wei Yi.
Forfeits - As always, we got missing teams who won't make it to Baku or are still on their way. In the Open section eight teams weren’t paired at all, while 11 teams were paired but forfeited all four of their games, including Mexico, whose 4:0 loss to Ivory Coast (captained by Maurice Ashley) would have been the sensation of the day… if any chess had been played. There were also some individual absentees, with Russia not really needing the helping hand they were given when no-one from Nigeria showed up to play Alexander Grischuk (the top seeds’ board 5!). Still, the Olympiad isn't lacking in teams...
The English were not in the main hall. The reason for that position was that their opponents, the International Braille Chess Association team, needed special boards and assistance.
The individual board pairings will appear in the morning when the team captains have submitted their final line-ups, but we can already anticipate some much tougher battles. For instance, Richard Rapport’s Hungary face Markus Ragger’s Austria, while Georgia and Baadur Jobava take on the prodigy-packed Iranian team. It remains to be seen if Norway will feel the World Champion is needed for their clash with Bangladesh.
The brilliant Wei Yi game, a good Sam Shankland game and the first win in a row for Anish Giri!
Baku Olympiad 2016
Round 1, Sept. 2, 2016
China vs Kosovo, Board 4
Wei, Yi – Sadiku, Badri
C03 French, Tarrasch
1. Russia
2. Azerbaijan 1
3. Cuba
4. USA
5. China
6. Netherlands
7. Belarus
8. England
9. India
10. Ukraine
11. Romania
12. Czech Republic
13. Slovenia
14. Latvia
15. Serbia
31. Canada
It has been suggested, in view of the number of postings and the wealth of material, that we break down a potentially very large thread into smaller units.
So, we will have the subsequent coverage of the Olympiad in two-round threads, with the last round having its own thread.
The Women’s Olympiad will remain unchanged. And, of course, the main thread is available to those who wish to use it.
If things heat up at the 87th FIDE Congress or, indeed, at the Bermuda Party, it is hoped that we can deal with them in these two-round threads without causing too much fragmentation of the material.
England faced a remarkably strong Canadian team, fielding four grandmasters now led by GM Evgeny Bareev (2675) (above) on board one. Although the English did come through, including a victory by Adams over the former Russian, it should be noted that this is Bareev's first return to the Olympiad as a player since 1998.
The two commentators today are Evgenij Miroshnichenko and Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam. They worked together at the Baku World Cup 2015 broadcast. You’ll recall Naka’s two-handed castling against Nepo there.
Dirk says that you have to check to see if a player you are talking to is playing for his national team or coaching another nation’s team!
The sales shop was shown. Besides books and chess sets it featured white and dark chocolate chess pieces from Ukraine. You could, for example, buy a black bishop and then dip it in a cup of melted chocolate!
Some of the non-Canadian (!) games from this round:
Did Carlsen really miss a big tactic? 21.Bxc7? In which case you could say the opening worked.
(21...Qc8 22.Bd6 Ne5 23.Bb3 Rd8 24.Bxc2 Bxc2 25.Qxc2 Nec6 26.Nf5 Qe6 27.Ne3 Nd4 28.Qc4 Qxc4 29.Nxc4 Nbc6 30.Rb1 f5 31.Re1 g5)
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