Challenge Cup, Slater-Kennington Cup, Felce Cup, Wernick Cup. Its the summer of 2015 so it must be time for the Surrey Individual competitions again! Surbiton have a total of 22 entrants to the various competitions at all levels. From mid-2015 onwards such news will appear on our home page and will be supplemented by the news from our twitter feed.
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This is an archive of our members' exploits in individual events from 2010 through to mid-2015. Although Kazakhstan’s 2½-1½ victory over the Spaniard is considered to be an upset rating-wise, the result is not that surprising given how well the Kazakh squad has been playing throughout the event.Latest News of our Members in Individual Tournaments Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan also joined the chasing group, as they obtained wins over Peru and Spain respectively. Vincent Keymer and Matthias Bluebaum | Photo: Lennart Ootes
Kollars won his game and Keymer held the draw, giving Germany a 2½-1½ victory. Dmitrij Kollars was on the winning side with an extra pawn in a queen plus minor piece endgame, while Vincent Keymer had an extra queen against Aleksandar Indjic, but the lady was only good enough to fight for a draw in the endgame, as she was facing a strong bishop pair and passed pawns. Matthias Bluebaum and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu drew. Against Serbia, they had a rating edge on all boards. Before the rest day, they scored a somewhat lucky victory against Italy. The Germans, ninth on the starting rank, had already suffered a defeat in round three, against Austria. Maxime Lagarde scored for France, while Benjamin Bok equalized for the Dutch squad. In round 7, France faced the Netherlands, who had lost in round 4 against Israel. The one legal king move would have lost on the spot! Final score: 2-2. Since Hovhanissyan had not actually given the check, Shankland realized he had no choice but to resign the game. Hovhannissyan got an advantage early on as the game progressed, Shankland managed to equalize and finally, when the engines were showing a 0.00 evaluation, the American touched his king after anticipating his rival would give a check on the first rank. Given these results, the outcome hinged on the game between Robert Hovhanissyan and Sam Shankland, which took a dramatic course. The Cuban-born grandmaster has been impressive in Chennai, scoring four wins and two draws for a 5/6 score despite having played four times with the black pieces. Leinier Dominguez recovered team USA’s lead by beating Samvel Ter-Sahakyan. Leinier Dominguez taking a look at Sam Shankland’s game | Photo: Lennart Ootes Peter Svidler, an 8-time Russian champion who is commentating for chess24, thus described Sargissian: It involved a magnificent tactical sequence of forcing checks.Īrmenia’s top board Gabriel Sargissian levelled the score by beating none other than Fabiano Caruana. The refutation, which So found in a bit over a minute, was brilliant. Levon Aronian decided not to play against his compatriots and former colleagues.įacing Wesley So, Hrant Melkumyan missed a decisive blow in what was actually a decent position, giving the USA an early lead. Thus, the top match in round 7 was Armenia against the US. Paraguay, Israel and Iran were each beaten only by the smallest of margins, while Uzbekistan, led by an inspired Nodirbek Abdusattorov, had in fact managed to draw the Americans. The US had not really convinced in previous rounds, though.
In sole second place was the United States, the heavy favourites to get the gold medal with their 2771 rating average. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > The ultimate chess experience every day, Pla圜 welcomes 20,000 chess players from all around the world – from beginner to grandmaster.īefore the break, the Armenian team - without its former top player, Levon Aronian, who has transferred to the US federation - had defeated the in-form, youthful second team presented by India, and was thus the only team left with a perfect score.Memorize it easily move by move by playing against the variation trainer.