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Back to chess. There seem to be technical questions in the Portugal match. Yuanling is reported as winning in an even position with the board full of pieces. Irina is reported as losing in a position where she has mate in 4 moves (Qxf2xh2-h4-f4) with checks.
We've seen glitches like that before from Dresden.
Igor won. Pascal's draw is marked on the match scoreboard, but not in the live games. But it does definitely look like a draw as it ends with a threefold rep. Thomas is up a Q for a B, so a Canada victory looks likely. Mark is 2 Ps down, but Black's K is exposed.
USA up 2-0 against Ukraine (at least according to the match scoreboard).
Looks like Canada has at least 2 1/2 once R-R's opponent resigns since RR has an extra queen. The Colombian may have been distracted by R-R's bushy hat - or is that his hair?!?? Or is he standing in front of a small tree? :)
If Shulman can win with an extra pawn, and Hikaru can draw (he's about to lose a pawn, IMHO!) USA would get the 3.5 they needed to overtake Ukraine in the standings. Russia-Spain ended 2-2, which is a good result for USA, as it puts both RUS and ESP out of the running. If NLD beats ISR (say a win on board 4 and 2 more draws), and Armenia beats China (looks to me like it'll be 2.5 to 1.5), USA would have its "Hail Mary" bronze medal.
In the Portugal match, I'm going to assume that Portugal's last move Rf3-g3?? was one of those glitches of adding a random extra move that isn't played. Instead, Qxf7+ wins. So Portugal 2 - Canada 1, with Natalia having a superior R ending.
Armenia defeats China and wins the Olympiad. Israel has at least drawn its match with the Netherlands, so wins the Silver. USA still has a chance for Bronze.
On the other side, Ukraine beat Poland, Georgia is beating Serbia, but the fate of the remaining game (Dzagnidze vs. Bojkovic) could decide the gold medals. If Dzagnidze wins, the tiebreaks of Georgia and of Ukraine are close (in fact, based on pre-round tiebreaks, Georgia would be ahead by, is it 1.5 points? Something like that). Yes, some match on a low board could decide the gold medals.
Dzagnidze's only drawing, so Georgia defeats Serbia 3-1 and wins the silver unless there's waaaaaay too many coincidences. Gold to Ukraine in the Women's.
Shulman won, so USA defeats UKR 3.5 to 0.5. It's down to tiebreaks for the bronze medals, but based upon pre-match tiebreaks, this sort of victory would bring USA the bronze medals.... If it happens, USA will be the only country to get team medals in both Open and Women's Olympics
Canada ranked in the 50s. Final placing: tied for 18th-28th; 28th on tiebreak. Just for laughs, had we beated Colombia 4-0, Canada would have finished 21st on tiebreaks (and #1 on game points).
For comparison with pre-1990: 10 of the 23 SU YU CS breakup countries finished ahead of us...although we finished ahead of both CS countries!
Canada played only one country in the top 41: India, a meritorious loss.
So a good result, achieved in a very particular way. The players might not have been satisfied with the opposition that the system dealt them, but what can you do? You can't change your pairings.
M. Trudeau used to speak lousy English. He said one thing before an election and did something else after he won. For example, no wage and price controls.
My French is not very good. I don't have an ear for languages.
I think I listened to too much Rap Music. :)
I did not know he spoke lousy English. he seemed to me to be so well educated.
But I do know he spoke French well. Very well.
I wonder if he played chess.
Maybe he did. The picture below seems to show him pondering his next move.
Ex PM Trudeau said that in "la Belle Province" we speak "lousy French" (français minable).
There was some truth to it :( ... but still, we speak better French than most English speaking Canadian.
What does this mean? That you speak French better than people for whom it is not a first language? Congratulations, I guess...
everytime it hurts, it hurts just like the first (and then you cry till there's no more tears)
Although "Ambassage" is a French word, and "Ambassade du Canada" sounds very official, my guess is that in the staff, they are most likely English-speaking Canadians, with few exceptions. I mean NO French speaking person would have written "à Colombie".
Some Chesstalkers here do know some French (and some, much more than that).
I just did not want them being "exposed" to a spelling mistake.
I could have simply exposed the mistake and show the right spelling, but I thought many Chesstalkers would not have believed me. After all, who am I ? And how an official Canadian office could have make that huge mistake ? They must be right, so I must be wrong (as I am too often in English). This is why I provided many examples.
Also, I wanted to show that our government do not care about the quality of French. So yes, we do speak (too often) lousy French, but not to the extent of making the mistake I have shown.
Also, I think I said that in "la Belle Province" we speak better French than most English speaking Canadian. "Most", only most. This is because I know that some English speaking Canadians speak French much better than most French Canadian, INCLUDING ME (especially for the quality of their pronounciation).
Sorry for the numerous spelling mistakes I did in this post :(
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