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Wales Open team Olympiad Report, Chennai 27 July-10 August Adam Hunt The team for this event was 1. Grzegorz Toczek (2287) 2. Jonathan Blackburn (2176) 3.Tim Kett (2197) 4. Alex Bullen (2106) 5. Allan Pleasants (2024). We all travelled independently to India and the majority arrived on Wednesday 27th, the day before the opening ceremony. […] Wales sent a last-minute fairly youthful and inexperienced team to Chennai. A target of 50% seemed reasonable given our seeding, but once it dawned that many teams were either ungraded or vastly undergraded, with FIDE-supplied GM coaches and pre-tournament training camps, as well as several teams very possibly doing strange things with their board orders, […] Follow the Open games live here Follow the Women’s games live here Follow Open Round by Round scores on Chess Results here Follow Women’s Round by Round scores on Chess Results here Read Mike Healey’s regular blog on kingstonchess.com The WCU is entitled to nominate one player for this event which is a 9-round Swiss to standard FIDE time limits taking place from Saturday 13 August to Sunday 21 August in Torquay. Any player interested in the nomination should contact Peter Bevan internationaldirector@welshchessunion.uk by the end of Saturday 30 July.
50 years ago, pre-Olympiad beginnings – Stuart Hutchings writes …… With the 2022 Olympiad in Chennai, India imminent, my mind drifted back some 50 years. When 1972 is mentioned, chess fans immediately think of the Fischer – Spassky World Championship match. For Wales, 1972 was also the first time ever the country played in an […] The results were as follows: 1st Peter Wells 8/9 2nd Keith Arkell 7/9 =3rd Jose Camacho Collados, John Richardson, Jack Rudd, Hugh Murphy and Andrei Maksimenko 6/9 48 competed. Wales fielded two teams in this event – Wales Silures and Wales Cymru. The Wales Silures team consisted of Sven Zeidler, Charles Morris, John Fletcher, Mark Adams and Anthony Hughes. The Wales Cymru team consisted of Charles Higgie, Gary Thomas, Lynda Smith and Gary Slegg. The Wales Silures team finished on 16.5 points […] Wales has 2 teams in the 50+ years World Team Championships. (We could not also raise a team for the 65+ years team.) These are being held in Italy at Aqui Terme 19-30 June. Official Website: https://www.scaccomattissimo.com/acqui-2022-en/ Live games on the higher boards: http://livechess24.com/Tournaments/Campionato_Mondiale_Seniores_a_Squadre_50__65_ Progress and Daily Results: https://chess-results.com/tnr641917.aspx?lan=1 Note: The downloadable PGN of all […] UEGENT EXPRESSION OF INTEREST DEADLINE 3rd July 2022 Dear chess friends, We are delighted to be inviting you to this years European Senior Team Chess Championship taking place in Dresden, Germany. In past years we’ve welcomed participants from your federation to our seniors’ tournaments in Dresden and in Radebeul and we would be […] The 2022 Olympiad will take place at Chennai, India between 27th July and 10th Augyst, The Welsh teams have just been announced. The Open team is as follows: Board 1 Grzegorz Toczek Board 2 Jonathan Blackburn Board 3 Tim Kett Board 4 Alex Bullen Board 5 Allan Pleasants Captain Adam Hunt (England) The Womens team […] |
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