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After excellent 4-0 start in first round, Scotland has great result yesterday against 4th seeded and higher rated Denmark 65+ team with Phil Giulian impressively beating Bent Sorensen on top board in 2-2 draw. Today they play Sweden 1 which should be a good match to watch live this afternoon.
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17-04-2018, 02:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 17-04-2018, 02:54 PM by Craig Pritchett.)
Alan Scrimgour's incisive King's Bishop's Gambit romp in the true swashbuckling 19th century (chess) romantic style is indeed worth viewing!
Shame that the event site's annotator hadn't time to check the correct spelling of Adolf Anderssen's surname as the great man lived virtually all of his life in then Prussian Silesian Breslau, now Polish Wroclaw, near neighbour to Walbrzych (Silesian Waldenburg), second city of the region, that he no doubt must have known well. Sorry! But the iconic Anderssen features fondly in my book 'Great Chess Romantics', so there's the excuse for my pedantry!
The 65+ team are all playing above rating strength and very interesting chess to boot. Phil Giulian v IM Bent Sorensen and FM Bengt Hammar v Alastair White were also both blisteringly decisive wins for Scotland.
Today all the games from the event, including Russia v Scotland in the 65+ event, are live at the event website. Alastair White meets GM N. Pushkov, whom he nearly beat last time they played. Ian Marks on board 4 actually defeated Pushkov last time they played.
Go Scotland! Both teams!!
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Sorry to have missed today's live games (sadly funerals of both of our neighbours) but pretty good result against the top seeds and likely 65+ gold medallists. Tomorrow's pairing against Finland 1 is nice one and victory could be big step towards high above ranking placing. Scotland 50+ play local Polish opponents.
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Good 3-1 win today for Seniors 65+ team with wins for Alastair and Ian. The 50+ encounter between the old enemies finished 2-2 with Ian Aird scoring an excellent victory over the evergreen Stewart Rueben. Tomorrow will decide the medal placings but Sweden 1 look favourites for bronze in 65+ as they have played all of the top teams, whereas Scotland will probably be paired with silver medallists Germany 1.
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22-04-2018, 07:35 PM
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Excellent result by 65+ team against the silver medallists Germany and achieving 5th place two places above their seeding and the 50+ team also finished in their seeded position, giving top seeds and gold medallists Italy a tough final match. With relatively small numbers of teams for nine round event there were inevitably some weird pairings in the later rounds but the top half teams all played each other and avoided bye in 65+ event which unfortunately had odd number of teams - are Poland short of old players!?
Will be interesting to have reports from the players on the tournaments, arrangements and the venue. Well done Scotland's Seniors!
