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Stacking (the name for the strategy you described) often works, but it also sometimes backfires. It almost always annoys the other teams. Right up your alley!
Jonathan,
I don't know if I ever defeated a player who wasn't either sick or annoyed.
If you want "annoyed", you should have seen the letters I got from some players whose games I forfeited. Often I'd reply and ask for clarification on some obscure point they were trying to make. :)
I suspect Hazel and Dina will get even better throughout the event, they don't get to focus 100% on their chess back at home. Hazel is playing well she was unlucky to lose round 1 and her opponent from Cuba beat a WGM today.
They are right in the middle. Not sure who they will play hopefully not the US who are marginally ahead of them after losing today. The hotel looks way better then what we usually get this seems to be a top notch opportunity.
Last edited by Duncan Smith; Friday, 14th November, 2008, 05:19 PM.
Sometimes it's because they try to set up the pieces (an otherwise good habit) or analyze the game (not so good, even with ordinary boards). That was the main task of an arbiter at the Olympiads (to keep the players' hands off the pieces after the game). Starting in Round 3, the main task will be to declare forfeits at 15.01. Grin.
Looks like healthy victories for Canada in both matches.
Mark's Qxc5 did not expect that. The point seems to be Rc8 pins the queen, but then Bb4 and if R takes B takes pinning black's queen. Plus, that exposes white to play Rd8, solving white's pin. Wow!
12.d3 d6 (threatening after exchanges to play Be6, gobbling the c4-pawn) 13.Rb1 (unpinning the b2-pawn) 13....b5 looks like a better version of what I suggested. For one thing, it doesn't sacrifice a second pawn!
Next moves coming quickly. 14.Bd5 Rb8 15.f4. Black has play against the exposed bishop at d5.
went 10.Ne2 Ne5 11.Qb3 Qc7. I was looking at 11...e6, trying to blast open the e-file with d7-d5. But Yuanling's move is interesting too. After 12.d3, I wonder if she's considering jettisoning a second pawn with 12...b5 ? Not using an engine.
Considering such things is one reason I get into time trouble.
According to my TWIC base, in recent games Black has a better score, 39%, with 7...Nf6, than the recommended 7...Nh6 (33%), and after 9.Nxd4 (winning the pawn) has scored 50% in 13 games. That isn't Truth, but it may be practical.
We're waiting for White's 10th move. Dragan Solak, a 2595 GM, played the remarkable 10.Ne6 and went on to win against Nikac (2390) at Budva, 2004. In the only other game I could find, White tried the blah Nb3 and lost.
Incidentally, if you can't figure out how the current position arrived, left click on the board. That'll bring up a (static) game history. Clicking on the player names brings up their FIDE rating graph and often a photo!
Open Olympics, Canada - Bolivia, board 4, Thomas's opponent Raisa Luna is an 18-year-old female.
Tyler,
According to my TWIC base, in recent games Black has a better score, 39%, with 7...Nf6, than the recommended 7...Nh6 (33%), and after 9.Nxd4 (winning the pawn) has scored 50% in 13 games. That isn't Truth, but it may be practical.
The postponement of the round was announced (over an hour) before its scheduled start time. So the official reason, given above, does not seem out of order, does it?
But I can only heartily agree with your conclusion in the second paragraph.
Since Russia giving 4th board to Morozevich (second-highest rated player in all of the Olympiad) occasioned an official protest from the Swiss delegation, it seemed reasonable that the delay was due to a protest about the Philippines board order. The rating difference for the Philippines is bigger than the rating difference for Russia. So it was interesting that this plausible scenario is, apparently, not the case.
Stacking (the name for the strategy you described) often works, but it also sometimes backfires. It almost always annoys the other teams. Right up your alley!
It could be that they just want to protect their young genius Wesley So from the psychic brunt of too much Board 1 play. Wesley is rapidly approaching the world ranking that Eugenio Torre had in his salad years. His rating of 2610 may be higher than Torre ever achieved; the highest I could find for Torre was 2580 in 1983. Of course, those were different days.
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