European Team Championship 13-22 November 2015

[LawrenceCooper]

Netherlands with black next for the open team and white against Italy for our women.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Carlsen beat Leko.

[LawrenceCooper]

Bo. 18 England Rtg - 15 Italy Rtg 0 : 0

8.1 IM Houska, Jovanka 2391 - IM Sedina, Elena 2305
8.2 IM Ciuksyte, Dagne 2356 - FM Brunello, Marina 2292
8.3 WIM Chevannes, Sabrina L 2106 - WFM Movileanu, Daniela 2192
8.4 WIM Sarakauskiene, Zivile 2145 - WFM Santeramo, Alessia 2041

Bo. 9 Netherlands Rtg - 5 England Rtg 0 : 0
6.1 GM Giri, Anish 2778 - GM Adams, Michael 2744
6.2 GM L'ami, Erwin 2623 - GM Howell, David W L 2693
6.3 GM Van Wely, Loek 2632 - GM Mcshane, Luke J 2687
6.4 GM Tiviakov, Sergei 2608 - GM Jones, Gawain C B 2615

[Leonard Barden]

Jovanka Houska's performance so far deserves a highlight:

http://chess-results.com/tnr191480.aspx ... =30&wi=821

[LawrenceCooper]

Jovanka Houska's performance so far deserves a highlight:

http://chess-results.com/tnr191480.aspx ... =30&wi=821

Indeed, she's currently ranked second on board 1 rating performance whilst Gawain is third among the board 4 performances.

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr191480. ... =30&wi=821
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr191479. ... =30&wi=821

[Christopher Kreuzer]

It would be annoying if the default win over Anna Muzychuk (no fault of Muzychuk - it was travel problems, I believe) led to Jovanka's performance not being eligible for a GM norm calculation. Has she got a GM norm before, I seem to remember that but might be confusing it with a WGM norm?

[Chris Rice]

I'd be surprised if she had any chance of a title norm. Jovanka has been clinical against the lower rated players but she's only played one player higher that her rating of 2391 who she drew with. http://chess-results.com/tnr191480.aspx ... 821&snr=35 Mind you I can see a performance rating of 2640 so maybe she can?

[LawrenceCooper]

I'd be surprised if she had any chance of a title norm. Jovanka has been clinical against the lower rated players but she's only played one player higher that her rating of 2391 who she drew with. http://chess-results.com/tnr191480.aspx ... 821&snr=35 Mind you I can see a performance rating of 2640 so maybe she can?

The default win in round one made any norm opportunity somewhat problematic but a board prize is certainly a possibility.

[Andrew Bak]

Does the default win count towards the board prize?

[Alan Walton]

The default doesn't matter due to the following regulation

Only 7 games are required for 8 or 9 round World Team and Continental Team Championships.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

It was more that if Houska had played Muzychuk, she would have had 2 GMS played so far. Though she would have been unlikely to get a third anyway (11 GMs playing in the whole of the women's section: 6 on board 1; 5 on board 2; 2 on board 3; and 1 on board 4), it was that I was thinking of. I think her TPR is so high because she has scored so heavily. (She is both a WGM and IM).

[LawrenceCooper]

The default doesn't matter due to the following regulation

Only 7 games are required for 8 or 9 round World Team and Continental Team Championships.

It makes a big difference when there are only a small number of teams with GMs. She now needs to play two GMs in the last two rounds as opposed to one and given that there are only 7 teams with GMs and some are too far ahead for England to play then the odds must be against the pairings being kind to her two rounds in a row.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

I think I was thinking of the London Classic 2011 when Jovanka just missed out on a GM norm.

I see France beat Ukraine - big result there - due to a blunder by Eljanov.

I also see Simon Williams has a beard - how long has that been there for?!? (Or is this some Movember thing?)

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Gawain has allowed a tactic by his opponent, but will Tiviakov see it? (move 23)

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Would anyone be able to post the England results here when known? Thanks.