Has anyone tried following the games live? I'm just looking at the Scotland vs Tunisia match in the Women's competition (Scotland's board 1 plays for the same club as me) and it seems that both have Scotland's top two boards have just blundered their queens in really simple positions. And in the game on board 4 it was the Tunisian player who gave away her queen for nothing.
Is it possible that the positions shown on the website are incorrect? If not this is the strangest match I've ever seen - three queen-losing blunders out of four games!
Edit: OK, they've changed all three games and now none of them has blundered a queen. Looks like the positions and moves shown on the live site can't be trusted.
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Originally posted by Fat LadyAbsolutely incredible! I can't see the queen blunder on board 2 though. I wonder whether those two pawn captures which blundered away queens were actually the pawns being adjusted in their squares under the 'j'adoube' rule.
Has anyone tried following the games live? I'm just looking at the Scotland vs Tunisia match in the Women's competition (Scotland's board 1 plays for the same club as me) and it seems that both have Scotland's top two boards have just blundered their queens in really simple positions. And in the game on board 4 it was the Tunisian player who gave away her q ...[text shortened]... this is the strangest match I've ever seen - three queen-losing blunders out of four games!
I misread the name of the Scottish girl on board 3 at first. I thought she was called 'Army Officer'.
I took screen captures of boards 1 and 4 and e-mailed them to Heather to show how the audience at home saw her blunder her queen. Board 2 had been corrected before I got a chance to get that one.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b177/gallicrow/olympiad1.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b177/gallicrow/olympiad2.jpg
Heather won in the end, her opponent blundered a rook (unless that's another mistake in the transmission...)
Hi FL - can you email me the pics.
I've been 'hired' by Scottish Chess to cover the Scottish Games.
Here are the 1-5 reports.
http://chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandlerarticle.php?ChandID=298
Strange rule that at anybody not seated at their board when the
Klaxon sounds then the game is defaulted (I already have been
defaultwed) and if any player leaves the players area then they are
not allowed back in!!
Cheers FL for pics.
I'm working this week - have to rush home - download games
write report and post before 8.30 - just made it.
http://chessedinburgh.co.uk/chandlerarticle.php?ChandID=299
Edit:
Wow great game just played it over - old greenpawn gut rolled.
(quicker win by Nak missed?) It never usually fails....
Edit 2 - 39.Re6 (instead of 39.Re5) is bugging me - it's a standard
Queen & Rook attacking pattern - time trouble and worrying
about the passed c-pawn? (knew there was something - think I'm right).
Edit3: trying to do the thing in my head - Re6 stops the d6 pin and
creates a mating net - good game - need to print it out and
play it OTB. cheers.
Originally posted by eladyI'd say Russia performing badly isn't a surprise. Their team had very bad chemistry. USA took bronze in both divisions, and the men had to win 3.5-.5 against the Ivanchuk-and-Karjakin led Ukraine in the last round to do it.
It's all over
Armenia won it!
There are 2 big surprises:
1)Israel - 2-nd place 🙂 😀 😛
2)Russia played very bad
Originally posted by Fat LadyJust as a late postscript regarding the "blundering queens" match: I spoke to Heather about this last night and she said that at this point in her game an arbiter marched over, took a photograph of the board and rushed away again! Clearly he used this to correct the live board shown on the internet.
Has anyone tried following the games live? I'm just looking at the Scotland vs Tunisia match in the Women's competition (Scotland's board 1 plays for the same club as me) and it seems that both have Scotland's top two boards have just blundered their queens in really simple positions. And in the game on board 4 it was the Tunisian player who gave away her q ...[text shortened]... ered a queen. Looks like the positions and moves shown on the live site can't be trusted.