World Senior Teams 19 to 30 June 2022

[Tim Harding]

The World Senior Team Championships start at 3pm today local time (2pm British time) and the definitive team lists and round 1 team pairings are now posted and as I write this the board pairings just went up.

I have updated my senior news and senior calendar pages at <url>http://www.chessmail.com/seniors/Seniors-news.html</url> and may start a separate page for the championships in a day or two.

Inconveniently, there are now two separate chess-results pages for the two championships, not linked to each other.

50+ is at <url>https://chess-results.com/tnr641917.asp ... art=8</url>

65+ at <url>https://chess-results.com/tnr641925.asp ... art=8</url>

In the first round of the 50+, England 1 play Oslo, and Michael Adams is rested.
Match 6 is England Women v Hungary, match 7 is England 3 v Germany 1, match 8 is Italy Asti Sempre Uniti v England 2 and England 4 play a Dutch team.
Scotland play Acqui Terme and Ireland (headed by GM Baburin) are in match 3 against a Georgian team headed by GM Sturua which includes GM Nona Gaprindashvili and IM/WGM Nana Ioseliani.
Wales SIlures play Italy-1 but Wales Cymru have the bye as they are the lowest seeded of 23 teams.

There is no bye in the 65+ as one team seems to have dropped out.
Israel are top seeds and play a Danish team while England 1 play England 2 in match 2.
Ireland (weakened because our 65+ champion had to switch to the 50+ team) meet a Danish squad. No Scots or Welsh in this event.

[Roger de Coverly]

Scotland play Acqui Terme

David Levy returns to action for Scotland, but playing on the reserve board.

http://chess-results.com/tnr641917.aspx?lan=1&art=8

The England 1 line up is

Adams
Short
Hebden
Emms
Arkell

[Tim Harding]

David Levy is playing today.

Only the top two matches in each tournament are being shown live and not in a very satisfactory way.
I had to hunt for them:

http://livechess24.com/Tournaments/Camp ... dre_50__65_

[Nick Burrows]

http://livechess24.com/Tournaments/Camp ... dre_50__65_

The link doesn't work for me

[LawrenceCooper]

http://livechess24.com/Tournaments/Camp ... dre_50__65_

The link doesn't work for me

Nor me.

[Nick Burrows]

Strangely, this link looks identical, but works:

http://livechess24.com/Tournaments/Camp ... dre_50__65_

[LawrenceCooper]

Strangely, this link looks identical, but works:

http://livechess24.com/Tournaments/Camp ... dre_50__65_

Still not for me

[Tim Harding]

http://livechess24.com/Tournaments/Camp ... dre_50__65_
This is pasted directly from the address bar in my browser (as was my previous one)

When I tried Nick's link in Chrome I got:

Whitelabel Error Page
This application has no explicit mapping for /error, so you are seeing this as a fallback.

Mon Jun 20 18:10:50 CEST 2022
There was an unexpected error (type=Internal Server Error, status=500).
No message available

So is this a browser-related issue?

[Tim Harding]

So far in the 50+ England-1 are leading 2-0 as Mark and Keith have won.

At first I was confused by the results being displayed above the boards and thought for a moment that they related to the England 1 v England 2 match in the 65s.

Great disappointment here that the organisers only have 16 live boards and are not showing match 3 in the 50+ where Ireland are playing the Georgians. I think that would have been of greater interest than the all-American match.

But disappointment is usually the order of the day when a tournament is run by arcoworldchess,

[Nick Burrows]

Strangely, this link looks identical, but works:

http://livechess24.com/Tournaments/Camp ... dre_50__65_

Still not for me

I just went to the livechess24 homepage and it worked from there.

[Nick Burrows]

[Event "FIDE World Senior Team 65+ Championship 2022"] [Site "Acqui Terme"] [Date "2022.06.20"] [Round "?"] [White "Nunn, John D M"] [Black "Page, Mark E"] [Result "1-0"] [Board "13"] [Input "DGT6785"] [Owner "CIRCOLO SCACCHI CORSICO"] [WhiteClock "1:30"] [BlackClock "1:30"] [Clock "B/0:00.19"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nb3 Be6 8. f3 Nbd7 9. g4 b5 10. g5 b4 11. Ne2 Nh5 12. Qd2 Be7 13. Ng3 Nxg3 14. hxg3 a5 15. f4 Qc7 16. f5 Bc4 17. Bxc4 Qxc4 18. Qd3 Qc6 19. O-O-O a4 20. Nd2 Rc8 21. Kb1 O-O 22. Rh2 Rfd8 23. b3 axb3 24. cxb3 Qc3 25. Qxc3 Rxc3 26. Nc4 Nf8 27. Rc2 Nd7 28. Rxc3 bxc3 29. Kc2 f6 30. Nxd6 Ra8 31. a4 fxg5 32. Nc4 Nc5 33. Rd5 Nxe4 34. Rxe5 Nxg3 35. Rxe7 1-0

[Nick Burrows]

[Event "FIDE World Senior Team 65+ Championship 2022"] [Site "Acqui Terme"] [Date "2022.06.20"] [Round "?"] [White "James, Geoffrey H"] [Black "Littlewood, Paul E"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [Board "14"] [Input "DGT7003"] [Owner "CIRCOLO SCACCHI CORSICO"] [WhiteClock "1:30"] [BlackClock "1:30"] [Clock "B/n/a"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. O-O a6 5. Bxd7+ Bxd7 6. d4 cxd4 7. Nxd4 Nf6 8. Nc3 e6 9. Bg5 Be7 10. Qd3 O-O 11. Rad1 Qb6 12. Kh1 Rac8 13. Nb3 Bc6 14. f3 Rfd8 15. Qe3 Qc7 16. Rfe1 h6 17. Bxh6 gxh6 18. Qxh6 Nh7 19. f4 Bf8 20. Qh5 d5 21. e5 Be8 22. Qg4+ Bg7 23. Rd3 f5 24. exf6 Nxf6 25. Qxe6+ Bf7 26. Qf5 Re8 27. Rde3 Rxe3 28. Rxe3 d4 29. Nxd4 Rd8 30. Nce2 Qb6 31. c3 Qxb2 32. Rg3 Nh5 33. Rg5 Qa1+ 34. Ng1 Qxc3 35. Ndf3 Nf6 36. Ne5 Rd1 37. h3 Qc5 38. Rxg7+ Kxg7 39. Qg5+ Kh7 40. Qf5+ 1/2-1/2

[Nick Burrows]

Stebbings is losing, Snape is winning.

[Nick Burrows]

[Event "FIDE World Senior Team 65+ Championship 2022"] [Site "Acqui Terme"] [Date "2022.06.20"] [Round "?"] [White "Stebbings, Anthony J"] [Black "Bowmer, Kevin"] [Result "0-1"] [Board "15"] [Input "DGT6241"] [Owner "CIRCOLO SCACCHI CORSICO"] [WhiteClock "1:30"] [BlackClock "1:30"] [Clock "W/0:10.12"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Qb3 dxc4 6. Qxc4 O-O 7. Bf4 Na6 8. e4 c5 9. dxc5 Qa5 10. e5 Be6 11. exf6 Bxc4 12. fxg7 Kxg7 13. Bxc4 Qb4 14. Bxa6 bxa6 15. Be3 Qxb2 16. O-O f6 17. Rfc1 Qb7 18. Rab1 Qc8 19. Rd1 Kf7 20. h3 Rb8 21. Rxb8 Qxb8 22. Rb1 Qc8 23. Nd2 Rd8 24. Rc1 Qe6 25. a4 g5 26. Nf3 Qc8 27. Nd4 e5 28. Nde2 Kg6 29. Ne4 f5 30. Nd6 Qe6 31. f3 h5 32. Bf2 Qa2 33. Ng3 Qd2 34. Rc4 Rb8 35. Nge4 Rb1+ 36. Kh2 fxe4 37. Nxe4 Qd1 38. h4 Qh1+ 0-1

[Nick Burrows]

[Event "FIDE World Senior Team 65+ Championship "] [Site "Acqui Terme"] [Date "2022.06.20"] [Round "?.16"] [White "Reuben, Stewart"] [Black "Snape, Ian L"] [Result "0-1"] [PlyCount "72"] [EventDate "2022.??.??"] [WhiteClock "0:01:00"] [BlackClock "1:30:00"] 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Bb4 3. d3 Nf6 4. Bd2 O-O 5. a3 Be7 6. g3 d5 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. Bg2 Be6 9. Nf3 Nc6 10. O-O Nxc3 11. Bxc3 f6 12. b4 Nd4 13. Nxd4 exd4 14. Bb2 c6 15. Qd2 Qd7 16. e3 dxe3 17. fxe3 Bh3 18. Rf4 Bxg2 19. Kxg2 Rad8 20. Rd4 Qe6 21. Rxd8 Rxd8 22. Bd4 b6 23. Rd1 h5 24. Bb2 h4 25. d4 Qe4+ 26. Kg1 hxg3 27. hxg3 Qg4 28. Qe1 Bd6 29. Rd2 Re8 30. Rg2 Qf3 31. Bc1 c5 32. dxc5 bxc5 33. b5 c4 34. Qc3 Re4 35. Bd2 Bxg3 36. Qc1 Rg4 0-1