World School Chess Championships 2013

[John Higgs]

The World School Chess Championships 2013 starts today in Porto Carras, Greece.

The England delegation is 48 players and 12 coaches. The event is a FIDE rated 9-round standard play tournament for U7s through to U17s. We have players - girls and boys - in almost all the sections.

The pairings are up at 1pm Greek time (we are 2 hours ahead of UK) and the first round is at 4pm local.

Useful shortcuts to follow our progress:

Event Website: http://www.gamesfestival.com

Meet the team: http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/worl ... -the-team/

ECF Junior page for daily blog and photographs: http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/

twitter feed: @ECFWSCC2013

Subject to local wifi I will post results and pairings.

Wish us luck!

[Angus French]

Fantastic effort. Good luck to the England players.

[John Higgs]

Results from day one can be viewed at:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr95776.a ... n=1&wi=821

We scored 13.5/48.

Updates etc during the day twitter @ECFWSCC2013

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Thanks for the update. Best of luck to all!

[John Higgs]

Round two results and round three pairing to follow.

[John Higgs]

Round two results and round three pairings can be viewed at:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr95775.a ... n=1&wi=821

The team scored 20.5/48 in round two, an uplift from 13.5/48 in round one.

Do follow our progress during the day via twitter: @ECFWSCC2013

[John Higgs]

Round 3 results and round 4 pairings to follow.

[John Higgs]

Round 3 results and round 4 pairings can be viewed at:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr95776.a ... n=1&wi=821

Two of our players are on 3/3 - Haolin Zhao U7 open and Adiyta Verma U9 open. Look out for both boys on the live boards today.

Today is double round day, rounds 4 & 5.

Follow us during the day via twitter: @ECFWSCC2013

[Matthew Turner]

I think I counted 15.5 points for yesterday's round. Today is a really important day, because with so many players new to such a big event it takes time to adjust to the environment. Some players will only just be getting the hang of things. We are only 1/3 of the way into the tournament at the beginning of the day, but suddenly at the end of the day we are more than half-way through.

[Matthew Turner]

Just played through Haolin Zhao's round 3 game and have round 4 up live. The young man appears to be rather good.

[Simon Brown]

Thanks Matthew. Just about to go into a long board meeting by conference call, so this can be a distraction. And he does play well!

[John Higgs]

Watch Haolin U7 open on live boards:

http://gamesfestival.chessdom.com/world ... live-games

[Matthew Turner]

A very stylish display and 4/4 for Haolin.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

A very stylish display and 4/4 for Haolin.

Article from January here:

http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news ... to_Greece/

[Simon Brown]

I particularly enjoyed a1 = B!