World Senior Teams 2023, September 18 to 29

[LawrenceCooper]

Today looks like the last good opportunity for the leaders, USA, to slip up.

Which they duly did.

This result makes the silver medal spot more problematic.

Agreed, albeit we have been out of the medal positions since round 4 so any medal will seem like a good salvage job.

[Mick Norris]

50+ final round pairings

Poland v USA (13)
Italy (13) v Montenegro
China ShenZhen W50 v England 1 (12)
England 2 v Iceland (12)
N Macedonia (10) v England 3

Board prizes

Mickey Adams looks certain to win gold on board 1

65+ final round pairings

Lasker (16) v Germany (10)
England 1 (14) v Switzerland (10)
Slovakia (12) v France (10)

Board prizes

John Nunn in 3rd on board 1; Tony Kosten looks certain to win gold on board 2; Terry Chapman looks certain to win silver on board 3; Nigel Povah second on board 5

Terry Chapman performing over 2400

[IM Jack Rudd]

Oh, but only four titled opponents. That's a pity.

[Mick Norris]

England 1 have won in both the 50+ and 65+

[LawrenceCooper]

If chess-results are correct then the final placings are:

50+

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds
Rk. SNo Team Games + = - TB1 TB2 TB3
1 1 USA 9 7 1 1 15 26 0
2 2 England 1 9 6 2 1 14 24,5 0
3 5 Iceland 9 6 2 1 14 24 0
4 3 Italy 9 6 2 1 14 23,5 0

https://chess-results.com/tnr805863.asp ... ES&flag=30

Edited to correct link.

[Brian Valentine]

England 1 secured a silver medal when Gary Clark (England 2) held a difficult ending against their key rival Iceland 1. This completed a great day for England Women, who had their contenders from China being whitewashed by England 1 That opened the door for them to grab the Womens gold. (China's minder was not amused.)

England 1 65+ also got silver

[Nick Burrows]

https://chess-results.com/tnr775458.aspx?lan=1

Seems to be the wrong link Lawrence.

[LawrenceCooper]

https://chess-results.com/tnr775458.aspx?lan=1

Seems to be the wrong link Lawrence.

Thanks, now corrected. That will teach me to have so many chess-results links open at once

[LawrenceCooper]

65+ top 3:

Final Ranking after 9 Rounds
Rk. SNo Team Games + = - TB1 TB2 TB3
1 1 Germany Lasker Schachstiftung GK 9 8 1 0 17 25,5 0
2 2 England 1 9 8 0 1 16 26 0
3 3 Slovakia 9 6 1 2 13 21 0

https://chess-results.com/tnr805864.asp ... ES&flag=30

[Mick Norris]

Bronze for Nunn, Gold for Kosten, Silver for Chapman and Povah

Gold for Adams, Bronze for Flear and Davies

Pretty good medal haul

Edit - Gold for England's women too in the 50+

[Kevin Thurlow]

Yes - good performances all round. Well done!

[David York]

https://www.englishchess.org.uk/Seniors ... gel-povah/
Full coverage and all the background in a great piece by Nigel Povah