U16 Olympiad

[AndrewGreen]

Looks like a fantastic tournament. Does anyone know if it is match points or game points?

[Clement Sreeves]

Appears to be game points. It's a shame Ali missed 40.Nf1+ Kf4 41.Rxf5+! The rook ending looks like black might hold now.

[Hugh Brechin]

Good spot.

On the subject of Andrew's opponent, not sure I've ever seen an under-16 CM before.

[Andy Howie]

I missed the end of the games. I can't believe we did not beat the number 8 seeds. I am guessing Shivan and Sam were in horrendous time trouble. He appears to have missed 48. Qxf5+ winning the rook!

[pgn][Event "World Youth Under 16 Chess Olympiad"]
[Site "Kocaeli"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "T.Kraus(CZE)"]
[Black "S.Murdochy(SCO)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "96"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nc6 6. Nc2 Nf6 7. e4 d6 8. Be2
O-O 9. O-O Nd7 10. Bd2 Nc5 11. f3 Ne6 12. Rb1 Ncd4 13. Nxd4 Nxd4 14. Be3 Nxe2+
15. Nxe2 Qa5 16. a3 Be6 17. Qd3 Rfc8 18. Rfc1 Qa6 19. b3 Qxa3 20. Nd4 Bxd4 21.
Qxd4 Qc5 22. Qd2 Qc6 23. h4 h5 24. Bd4 Kh7 25. Qf4 Qe8 26. g4 Bxg4 27. Be3 Bd7
28. Qh6+ Kg8 29. Kf2 Qf8 30. Qg5 Kh7 31. Ra1 a6 32. Rg1 b5 33. Ra5 Be8 34. Qd5
Bc6 35. Qd3 Be8 36. f4 e6 37. f5 exf5 38. exf5 Qe7 39. Rg5 Kg8 40. Qd5 Bc6 41.
Rxg6+ Kf8 42. Bh6+ Ke8 43. Qd4 fxg6 44. Ra1 Kd7 45. Re1 Qf7 46. Bf4 Qf8 47. Re6
Ra7 48. Bh6 Raa8 1-0[/pgn]

Looking for the good players out there, is Sam's not fairly drawn?

if Kxe4 (forced as Kf6 is a mate in 4) then Rxg3+

[pgn][Event "World Youth Under 16 Chess Olympiad"]
[Site "Kocaeli"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "S.Seidl(CZE)"]
[Black "S.Gregory(SCO)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "98"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd6 4. Nb1 Qd5 5. Nc3 Qd6 6. d4 Nf6 7. Bc4 a6 8.
Nf3 b5 9. Bb3 Bb7 10. Bg5 Nbd7 11. Qe2 e6 12. O-O-O Be7 13. d5 Nc5 14. dxe6
Nxb3+ 15. axb3 Qxe6 16. Rhe1 Qxe2 17. Rxe2 Kf8 18. Ne5 Bd6 19. Rde1 b4 20. Na4
Bd5 21. Nc5 h6 22. Ned7+ Nxd7 23. Be7+ Bxe7 24. Nxd7+ Kg8 25. Rxe7 Kh7 26. g3
a5 27. Ne5 f6 28. Ng4 Kg6 29. Rxc7 a4 30. bxa4 Rxa4 31. Ree7 Rg8 32. b3 Ra1+
33. Kd2 Bf3 34. Ne3 Rh1 35. Nc4 Rxh2 36. Ke3 Bd1 37. Nd6 Rh5 38. f4 Rh1 39. f5+
Kh7 40. Ne4 Kh8 41. Kf2 Bxc2 42. Nxf6 Rd8 43. Rxg7 Rd2+ 44. Kf3 Rd3+ 45. Kg4
Rd4+ 46. Kf3 Rd3+ 47. Kf4 Rf1+ 48. Ke5 Re1+ 49. Ne4 Rxe4+ 1-0[/pgn]

Great effort today. They are certainly doing us proud!

[Angus McDonald]

Can't claim to be a good player but I agree that Shivan and Sam were very unlucky. Must have been time trouble because I reckon Sam can certainly play on and Shivan is totally winning until the last few moves. I guess you are right and it must have been time trouble.

[robin moore]

Was a wee bit disappointed tonight when I got back from work to see that we had lost the 3 remaining games to be completed this afternoon (Ali had drawn before I left). It looks as though we may have got something more from all four games and can consider ourselves unlucky not to have done so. A great effort today from everyone, keep it going, we are all right behind and following you in every move of every game.

Robin.

[Andy Howie]

Games are already underway at the Kartepe Stadium where Scotland face the SA A team.

[Hugh Brechin]

Cracking result from Andrew there.

[Mike Scott]

Nice game again today from Andrew.

One thought when watching is that there are quite a few games reducing down to blitz at a much earlier stage (in terms of moves played) than normal, with final results being decided as usual by blunders at this stage. This suggest to me that our players there must think clearly about this and use it to their advantage if at all possible.

And secondly players should think about the event time controls before they go to it and make sure they get familiar with them in real games as part of their pre-event prep.

[Andy Howie]

I am feeling sorry for Shivan and Sam, their results are not reflecting their play.

Mike, show me an event in Scotland where we have a time control like that. I like the time control but we seem to have too many going to blitz which is where I think we went wrong yesterday.

My head and heart are both telling me we are going to win this afternoon.

Andrew and Ali are scoring some excellent points for the team. if we can convert the positions into points on the boards we are going to get a run of wins