World Seniors Championship - Vilnius, Lithuania

[Mick Norris]

Round 3 on 2014/07/15 at 14:00
Bo. 1 Lithuania 1 Rtg - 4 Russia Women Rtg 2 : 2
1.1 GM Kveinys, Aloyzas 2527 - WGM Strutinskaia, Galina 2306 1 - 0
1.2 GM Malisauskas, Vidmantas 2409 - WGM Saunina, Ludmila 2186 0 - 1
1.3 IM Dambrauskas, Virginijus 2277 - WGM Fatalibekova, Elena 2243 ½ - ½
1.4 FM Solys, Laimutis 2310 - WGM Kozlovskaya, Valentina 2161 ½ - ½
Bo. 14 Marijampole Lithuania Rtg - 2 England 1 Rtg ½ :3½
2.1 Valiunas, Rimantas 2038 - GM Arkell, Keith C 2433 0 - 1
2.2 Zygmanta, Eugenijus 1877 - GM Plaskett, H James 2477 0 - 1
2.3 Buzas, Narvydas Antanas 1789 - IM Cox, John J 2392 0 - 1
2.4 Usakovas, Jevgenijus 2084 - IM Pein, Malcolm 2357 ½ - ½

Rank after Round 3
Rk. SNo Team Games + = - TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4
1 2 England 1 3 3 0 0 6 24.0 10.0 17.5
2 1 Lithuania 1 3 2 1 0 5 24.0 9.5 19.0
3 4 Russia Women 3 2 1 0 5 16.0 7.5 20.5

[Mick Norris]

Round 4 on 2014/07/16 at 10:00
Bo. 2 England 1 Rtg - 1 Lithuania 1 Rtg 0 : 0
1.1 GM Arkell, Keith C 2433 - GM Kveinys, Aloyzas 2527
1.2 GM Plaskett, H James 2477 - GM Malisauskas, Vidmantas 2409
1.3 IM Cox, John J 2392 - IM Dambrauskas, Virginijus 2277
1.4 FM Chapman, Terry P D 2291 - FM Solys, Laimutis 2310

[Keith Arkell]

Hi MIck! Thanks a lot for the support.

I'd already completed a 'game' of chess before some of you got out of bed this morning

[NickFaulks]

People have criticised Keith over the years for drawing with 2600+ opponents, so I fear to think what they will say about this.

[Keith Arkell]

They'll crucify me Nick! Really at my age I ought to play at least 300 games a year and average at least 80 moves per game

[Keith Arkell]

Here's a link to the live games. If we can draw 2:2 we'll be in a fantastic position as we are outright leaders after 3 rounds, but the final 2 games look difficult...

http://vilnius2014.com/live-games

[Mick Norris]

Hi MIck! Thanks a lot for the support.

I'd already completed a 'game' of chess before some of you got out of bed this morning

You're welcome

It is the quality of the moves, not the quantity

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Terry Chapman's position on board 4 (currently at move 41) looks like the sort of position that would suit Keith!

[Barry Sandercock]

I predict a draw, but he needs to win to draw the match.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Doesn't 46...b5 just win for Black? (Oh, oops, Rook on c5 protected by pawn on d4 - I'll shut up again now!)

[Mick Norris]

Game drawn and match lost

[Mick Norris]

Round 5 on 2014/07/17 at 10:00
No. SNo Team MP Res. : Res. MP Team SNo
1 1 Lithuania 1 7 : 6 Logika Lithuania 3
2 14 Marijampole Lithuania 6 : 6 Rositsan ir Maccabi Lithuania 6
3 4 Russia Women 5 : 6 England 1 2
4 11 Finland 4 : 5 Latvia Women 10
5 7 Georgia Women 4 : 4 England 2 9

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Game drawn and match lost

Pity. Still in second place on tie-break (if the chess-results site are using the correct calculations).

[Mick Norris]

Bit early to worry about tiebreaks

Round 5 on 2014/07/17 at 10:00

Bo. 1 Lithuania 1 Rtg - 3 Logika Lithuania Rtg 0 : 0
1.1 GM Kveinys, Aloyzas 2527 - Novikov, Vitalij 2302
1.2 GM Malisauskas, Vidmantas 2409 - Rastenis, Gediminas 2333
1.3 IM Dambrauskas, Virginijus 2277 - Gefenas, Vladas 2280
1.4 FM Solys, Laimutis 2310 - Mikenas, Alius 2162

Bo. 14 Marijampole Lithuania Rtg - 6 Rositsan ir Maccabi Lithuania Rtg 0 : 0
2.1 Valiunas, Rimantas 2038 - FM Rositsan, Boris 2101
2.2 Zygmanta, Eugenijus 1877 - IM Zapolskis, Antanas 2297
2.3 Arulis, Algimantas 2040 - Pavlovicius, Vladimir 2191
2.4 Buzas, Narvydas Antanas 1789 - Cirtautas, Saulius 0

Bo. 4 Russia Women Rtg - 2 England 1 Rtg 0 : 0
3.1 WGM Strutinskaia, Galina 2306 - GM Arkell, Keith C 2433
3.2 WGM Saunina, Ludmila 2186 - GM Plaskett, H James 2477
3.3 WGM Kozlovskaya, Valentina 2161 - IM Pein, Malcolm 2357
3.4 WIM Titorenko, Natalia I 2129 - FM Chapman, Terry P D 2291

[Barry Sandercock]

Keith's game looks very interesting today(move 26). On a knife edge.