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Bobotsov and Ólafsson



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How curious

Ian Thompson wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 29, 2026 8:22 pm

Player defaulted for an unspecified fair play breach when they were one move away from mating their opponent.

Do we have any idea who and what this was about?

How strong would Larry Evans have been? Elo was running a shadow unofficial rating list of top players and events. Olimpbase has copies. https://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo196706e.html According to the June 1967 list, Evans was in equal 31st with Averbakh and Suetin at 2560, but ahead of Pachman at 2...

How strong would Larry Evans have been?

Re: the Open team, four players lost rating points (Mickey only marginally). Only two of the Women players did (Elmira even more marginally).

Fantastic performance by Germany, who may even feel they should have won it

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 27, 2026 10:24 am

and that has probably decided the Olympiad gold medals.

I am not sure why, would Uzbekistan have missed out on gold if that game were drawn?

Awesome would not be the word for Mickey's 21st

Ian Thompson wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 27, 2026 4:24 am

In a similar vein, I note that the Seychelles' women's board 2 has been selected to play 5 times and defaulted 5 times.

Awesome

No, but I remember Adlestrop

Open:

Leading teams and draw, women:

Blimey.

Incidentally my Player of the Tournament lost again and is currently looking at dropping 34 Elo points

Looking difficult for the Women's team now as Lan Yao only had a narrow path to take full advantage of her extra exchange (and she has not found it). She can still play on forever if she wants to, as can Dzagnidze on board one The loss from Harriet was a time trouble blunder. Can't really avoid tho...