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European Individual Chess Championship 2024 Herceg Novi, Montenegro 07-Nov-24 20-Nov-24

Starting tomorrow:

https://chess-results.com/tnr1011499.as ... ES&flag=30

Seven players from England:

GM Vitiugov Nikita 4152956 ENG 2668
GM Fernandez Daniel Howard 5801605 ENG 2503
IM Wadsworth Matthew J 415804 ENG 2461
IM Willow Jonah B 438804 ENG 2454
IM Zhou Yang-Fan 468584 ENG 2418
FM Derakhshani Borna 12518450 ENG 2355
FM Kalavannan Koby 425753 ENG 2225

Good luck to all the ENG players!

Am I right that Howell and Jones would normally have played in this event? I have a vague memory that they played this event in the past, but maybe there are reasons. I think McShane and Adams tend to play less at events like this (but without looking it up, may be making that up).

2023

2022

2021 Gawain was top seed

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 08, 2024 9:24 am

Good luck to all the ENG players!

Am I right that Howell and Jones would normally have played in this event? I have a vague memory that they played this event in the past, but maybe there are reasons. I think McShane and Adams tend to play less at events like this (but without looking it up, may be making that up).

Howell barely plays nowadays apart from the Olympiad/European Team and sometimes the British. Gawain is also playing less for very understandable reasons.

Borna's pairing the stand out of the first round:

Pairings of the next round for ENG
Rd. Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 7 201 FM Citak Selim 2366 0 0 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2668 7
1 21 215 FM Derakhshani Borna 2355 0 0 GM Ivanchuk Vasyl 2640 21
1 69 263 FM Kalavannan Koby 2225 0 0 GM Vogel Roven 2558 69
1 105 299 WIM Hryzlova Sofiia 2177 0 0 GM Fernandez Daniel Howard 2503 105
1 129 323 Sakmak Kutay 2104 0 0 IM Wadsworth Matthew J 2461 129
1 131 325 FM Bognar Csaba Dr. 2101 0 0 IM Willow Jonah B 2454 131
1 162 162 IM Zhou Yang-Fan 2418 0 0 Tsanatsqenishvili Alexandre 1987 356

https://lichess.org/broadcast/european- ... R/htuLiw42

Ireland's Tarun Kanyamarala on board 1 in round 1 v 2700+ Fedoseev.

LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 08, 2024 12:38 pm

Borna's pairing the stand out of the first round:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/european- ... R/htuLiw42

Game drawn in 35 moves.

Results of the last round for ENG

Rd. Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 7 201 FM Citak Selim 2366 0 0 - 1 0 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2668 7
1 21 215 FM Derakhshani Borna 2355 0 ½ - ½ 0 GM Ivanchuk Vasyl 2640 21
1 69 263 FM Kalavannan Koby 2225 0 0 - 1 0 GM Vogel Roven 2558 69
1 106 299 WIM Hryzlova Sofiia 2177 0 1 - 0 0 GM Fernandez Daniel Howard 2503 105
1 130 323 Sakmak Kutay 2104 0 0 - 1 0 IM Wadsworth Matthew J 2461 129
1 132 325 FM Bognar Csaba Dr. 2101 0 0 - 1 0 IM Willow Jonah B 2454 131
1 162 162 IM Zhou Yang-Fan 2418 0 ½ - ½ 0 Tsanatsqenishvili Alexandre 1987 356

Went to look at Dan Fernandez's loss, and it shows a win for White after three moves...

https://lichess.org/broadcast/european- ... e/Og1FnaPz

Anyone know what happened there? Looking at the other boards, several are also only showing a limited number of moves. Was there a breakdown in the broadcast of the moves?

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 09, 2024 12:36 am

Went to look at Dan Fernandez's loss, and it shows a win for White after three moves...

https://lichess.org/broadcast/european- ... e/Og1FnaPz

Anyone know what happened there? Looking at the other boards, several are also only showing a limited number of moves. Was there a breakdown in the broadcast of the moves?

I think it has to be issues with multiple, but not all, boards.

That probably means a physical connection failure somewhere - with a bunch of boards connected up in a row, it's easy for an "if one fails, they all fail" situation to develop.

Win for KRB v KR on top board.

Results of the last round for ENG
Rd. Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
2 5 7 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2668 1 1 - 0 1 GM Stefansson Hannes 2485 116
2 18 129 IM Wadsworth Matthew J 2461 1 ½ - ½ 1 GM Rodshtein Maxim 2636 24
2 20 131 IM Willow Jonah B 2454 1 0 - 1 1 GM Cheparinov Ivan 2632 26
2 91 29 GM Santos Latasa Jaime 2630 ½ 1 - 0 ½ FM Derakhshani Borna 2355 215
2 108 302 WIM Kanyamarala Trisha 2171 ½ 0 - 1 ½ IM Zhou Yang-Fan 2418 162
2 110 105 GM Fernandez Daniel Howard 2503 0 1 - 0 0 FM Olcum Ahmet 2180 297
2 166 360 Volcov Igor 1954 0 0 - 1 0 FM Kalavannan Koby 2225 263

Congrats to Matthew on his draw with a 2600+ GM.