Olympiad - some Canadian games

[Hugh Brodie]

The rest of the games from round 1 - and all from round 2:

[Event "Olympiad w"]
[Site "Batumi GEO"]
[Date...

[Hugh Brodie]

Round 1 vs Nepal:

[Event "Olympiad"]
[Site "Batumi GEO"]
[Date "2018.09.24"]
[Round "1"]...

[Hugh Brodie]

This has been discussed on the French Chesstalk for a while.

https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/pa...%A9-par-www-bo...

[Hugh Brodie]

I don't see any Polgars or Pia Cramling, and it's difficult to tell the sex of Chinese (and similar) names. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the lower-ranked...

[Hugh Brodie]

An online interview with Short and Dvorkovich (Makropoulos declined to be interviewed):

https://www.chess.com/news/view/dvorkovich-short...

[Hugh Brodie]

And some players that won't be competing (this list is a month old, so things could change)...

https://www.chessable.com/blog/2018/08/24...

[Hugh Brodie]

Laos
Cambodia
Eritrea
Belize
Congo (Brazzaville)
Benin
Burkina Faso
Chad
Comoros
Djibouti
...

[Hugh Brodie]

Sorry about that. They are there now....

[Hugh Brodie]

Games from the first two rounds are at:

http://canbase.fqechecs.qc.ca/cbv/20...018_ridout.pgn

[Hugh Brodie]

Posted this morning on the "British Chess News" Facebook page:

"At an ECF Board meeting held on 20th September 2018 the ECF...

[Hugh Brodie]

I believe the FQE rates blitz events for free - but only 21 of the 191 events rated by the FQE this year have been blitz - and most are small, local club...

[Hugh Brodie]

From my experience in Montreal, OTB (over-the-board) blitz tournaments have dropped down to near zero. We once had as many as four weekly blitzes (in...

[Hugh Brodie]

I came upon a game in the Open section of the Canadian Junior in which Black castled on move 41. I had to check the record - it turns out the latest castling...

[Hugh Brodie]

All games from round 1 of the top section are available....

http://canbase.fqechecs.qc.ca/cbv/20...018_ridout.pgn

[Hugh Brodie]

All 45 games - plus the 4 playoff games - from the Invitational section of the Canadian Junior are available: Other sections will follow.

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[Hugh Brodie]

On peut suivre l'histoire chez http://www.quebecechecs.com .

[Hugh Brodie]

Chess-results.com can serve as a backup for a bare-bones crosstable - if your not interested in accurate before/after CFC ratings. But it's up to the...

[Hugh Brodie]

How does it work? Are the 4 games played starting from the same position? Are all games in the tournament started from the same position at the start...

[Hugh Brodie]

If no one wants to enter them, take them to the Strategy store, and Larry will get them to me....

[Hugh Brodie]

Is there more than one game available from the Toronto Open?