olympiad - Round 1

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

According to chess-results:

Open

53 Canada - Mozambique MOZ 127

http://chess-results.com/tnr36795.as...0&m=-1&wi=1000

Women

56 Canada - Uganda UGA 113

http://chess-results.com/tnr36796.as...0&m=-1&wi=1000

Good luck

[Vlad Rekhson]

Re: olympiad - Round 1

Looks like it should be a nice little warm up for our teams. In the past olympiad they used accelerated pairings for the first couple of rounds, but I guess that now they decided to walk away from it, so we should see some early blow outs.
As to some other matches, it looks like board 11 might have a no-show!

Other curiousities include the fact that Russia has somehow managed to field 5 teams on the open side! Only 2 of them are medal contenders, the third is a local team with Jakovenko on board one and the rest are just youth teams. On Russia 5 there is a player-CM Daniil Yuffa who actually lived in Calgary a few years ago. His parents were saying that they might come back but never did.

[Tony Ficzere]

Where are the live games?

The Olympiad website doesn't seem to have a link active for live games (well at least not right now, about 40 minutes from game time). Am I missing something?

[John Coleman]

Re: olympiad - Round 1

from TWIC

At the moment the official site is down or very slow. Direct coverage of some of the top games at:
http://games.ugra-chess.com/broadcas...nd1.pgn&game=0

There 16 boards being shown, a peculiar selection. I looked at a couple, but it's too early for chess.

[John Coleman]

Re: olympiad - Round 1

From the official site http://games.ugra-chess.com/index.php

Round 1, game commenting

http://games.ugra-chess.com/broadcas...nd1.pgn&game=0

Dear chess fans,
In this section of the Olympiad official site you will be able to watch selected games with comments by the best playing system Rybka 4 Aquarium, current Program world champion. You can choose any of the six languages – Russian, English, German, Spanish, Italian or French – for the commentaries displayed.

In each round 16 selected games are to be commented online, and another 100 games will be commented and posted on this site within 20 hours after the end of a round.

The evaluation to the moves is shown as digits. Evaluation +1 refers to the advantage of white, equivalent to the extra pawn for white, and -1 refers to the advantage of black, equivalent to the extra pawn for black.

If you have any feedback on broadcasting, please mail to ugra.feedback@gmail.com.

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: olympiad - Round 1

Canada-Mozambique - all games looking good for the good guys.
Canada-Uganda - the ladies are also looking good. Orlova has won already.

[John Coleman]

Re: olympiad - Round 1

Hugh, where are you seeing the games?

[Jean Sasseville]

Re: olympiad - Round 1

go to the official site:

http://ugra-chess.com/results.php

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: olympiad - Round 1

Canada-Mozambique - all games looking good for the good guys.

Looks like 4-0 is coming :)

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: olympiad - Round 1

3-0 for the ladies so far.

Mark Bluvshtein has won on board 1.

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: olympiad - Round 1

Hi Hugh:

Where are you getting the results - I go to the official results website, but anything I click on like Rd 1 Team Pairings doesn't show any results yet. What are you clicking on?

And where are you watching the Canadian games ? - the official live games site I'm watching has only 16 selected top boards.

Thanks.

Bob

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: olympiad - Round 1

Go to "Lve Games and Results". There - you will see the pairings. Click on "View" (at the middle of the screen) on any game to see the updated position. For some reason, they are not posting the results (yet) on that page - you have to go to each individual game.

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: olympiad - Round 1

Hi Hugh:

I found where the live games are - on the official site: http://ugra-chess.com/results.php

But I still can't see where you are getting the results so early - help!

Bob

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: olympiad - Round 1

You have to "view" each game individually - and look for "1-0" (etc.) at the end og the game.

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: olympiad - Round 1

Hi Hugh:

Thanks.

But the live board viewing right now doesn't seem to show any result at the end of either the Bluvshtein ( move 32 ) or the Orlova ( move 29 ) games - they show them still in progress and I can't see any score anywhere. Where are you seeing it?

Bob