29-07-2013, 12:37 AM
SCO 1½ Helsinki 2½ 
Not the way we wanted it to finish, but another cracking win by Raj. Phil drew, and Alastair and I played for nearly 140 moves to try to save the match, but no dice.
The noise issue reared its ugly head again today as arbiters sat around while heated discussions took place in the playing hall. (We only used the big conference hall this year.) Perhaps noise isn't such a big deal with German arbiters. It should be.
We finished 53rd, ten places below our 43rd seeding. Sounds pretty bad, but there were so many possible permutations from the teams/results around our position that it could have been 40-something. Winners were Israel, and Italy, with whom we drew in round one, finished 5th.
Not the way we wanted it to finish, but another cracking win by Raj. Phil drew, and Alastair and I played for nearly 140 moves to try to save the match, but no dice.
The noise issue reared its ugly head again today as arbiters sat around while heated discussions took place in the playing hall. (We only used the big conference hall this year.) Perhaps noise isn't such a big deal with German arbiters. It should be.
We finished 53rd, ten places below our 43rd seeding. Sounds pretty bad, but there were so many possible permutations from the teams/results around our position that it could have been 40-something. Winners were Israel, and Italy, with whom we drew in round one, finished 5th.