European Team 2025

[LawrenceCooper]

The latest registration lists are on chess-results:
https://s1.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.aspx ... no=1214003

[NickFaulks]

ENG reserves to follow, presumably.

[LawrenceCooper]

ENG reserves to follow, presumably.

I would hope so, along with a few more teams in both sections.

[Jonathan Rogers]

Do we know whether the men are listed in playing order or alphabetical order? Vitiugov on board four would be surprising, notwithstanding how he played the opening yesterday - and McShane not being on 4 would be almost as surprising.

[LawrenceCooper]

Do we know whether the men are listed in playing order or alphabetical order? Vitiugov on board four would be surprising, notwithstanding how he played the opening yesterday - and McShane not being on 4 would be almost as surprising.

I suspect not, in recent events the registered order has tended to look intentionally different to any of the more plausible orders.

[Alex Holowczak]

Do we know whether the men are listed in playing order or alphabetical order? Vitiugov on board four would be surprising, notwithstanding how he played the opening yesterday - and McShane not being on 4 would be almost as surprising.

I suspect not, in recent events the registered order has tended to look intentionally different to any of the more plausible orders.

I asked one team about a particularly funky board order ahead of the Chennai Olympiad. When they were registering players, they had to provide photo ID, flight details, and much more besides. You could leave some fields blank and fill them in later, but this Federation official - not unreasonably - had better things to do with his time than go back and forth with limited data, so he would only fill out a player's registration once he got 100% of the information he needed. As a result, their initial board order that we published was the order in which his team responded to the email requesting the information.

[LawrenceCooper]

ENG reserves to follow, presumably.

Now on chess-results https://s3.chess-results.com/tnr1214003 ... 0&SNode=S0

[LawrenceCooper]

Round 1 team pairings now published:

https://s2.chess-results.com/tnr1263014 ... 0&SNode=S0
https://chess-results.com/tnr1263013.as ... =1&flag=30

[LawrenceCooper]

Bo. 30 Croatia Rtg - 12 England Rtg 0 : 0
12.1 WFM Ivekovic, Tihana 2078 - IM Houska, Jovanka 2342
12.2 WFM Zagorac, Lara 2074 - IM Hunt, Harriet V 2284
12.3 WFM Radikovic, Anamarija 2053 - WGM Mirzoeva, Elmira 2300
12.4 Mihaljevic, Eva 2041 - WFM Sivanandan, Bodhana 2205

Bo. 5 England Rtg - 25 Sweden Rtg 0 : 0
5.1 GM Vitiugov, Nikita 2654 - GM Grandelius, Nils 2645
5.2 GM Adams, Michael 2646 - IM Seo, Jung Min 2483
5.3 GM Maroroa Jones, Gawain C B 2643 - IM Trost, Edvin 2457
5.4 GM Royal, Shreyas 2501 - IM Pantzar, Milton 2433

[Mick Norris]

Good luck to the England teams

[LawrenceCooper]

Good luck to the England teams

Gawain gives the open team an early lead.

[LawrenceCooper]

The open team is 2-1 up having drawn the two black games. The women lead 1.5-0.5. Jovanka drew and Elmira won.

[LawrenceCooper]

2.5-1.5 for the open team (Gawain won). The women lead 2.5-0.5 with wins from Harriet & Elmira and Bodhana may also be grinding out a win.

[Mick Norris]

Good news

Top seeds Germany lost to Denmark in the Open, Netherlands beat Bulgaria with Giri beating Naiditsch (is that county number 3 for him?) with black

I see Bodhana won, good result for the Women

[Jonathan Rogers]

How many teams appear to be fully represented at this event? In recent years it has seemingly been relatively few (but among them, always England). Or to rephrase the question, is there really only one active GM from Sweden?