Chess Olympiad 2012 - Istanbul

[prashanthm]

First round will be played tomorrow.......

India is 13th in the Men's Starting rank list

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1	GM	SASIKIRAN KRISHNAN	2707
2	GM	HARIKRISHNA PENTALA	2685
3	GM	GUPTA ABHIJEET	2637
4	GM	NEGI PARIMARJAN	2664
5	GM	GOPAL GEETHA NARAYANAN

India is 6th in the Women's Starting rank list

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1	GM	DRONAVALLI HARIKA	2503
2	IM	SACHDEV TANIA	2379
3	WGM	GOMES MARY ANN	2396
4	IM	KARAVADE SANJAY EESHA	2371
5	WGM	SOUMYA SWAMINATHAN	2271

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Round 1

Indian men against Wales
Indian Women against Macedonia

Both our teams should aim for a 4-0 score.....

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Round 1 - Board Pairings

Sasikiran taking a break for Rd 1...., Our guys need to show killer instinct to get a 4-0 here......

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IM	Jones, Richard	2393	-	GM	Harikrishna, Pentala	2685	
	Kett, Tim	2237	-	GM	Negi, Parimarjan	2664	
	Dineley, Richard	2259	-	GM	Gupta, Abhijeet	2637	
CM	Jones, Iolo	2243	-	GM	Gopal, Geetha Narayanan	2550	

This looks much easier for the Women's team..

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Bejatovic, Bojana	1978	-	GM	Dronavalli, Harika	2503	
Stojkovska, Monika	1939	-	IM	Karavade Sanjay, Eesha	2371	
Nikolovska, Dragana	1828	-	IM	Sachdev, Tania	2379	
Lakinska, Simona	1655	-	WGM	Soumya, Swaminathan	2271

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4-0 wins for both Men's & Women's teams......

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Rd 2 pairings

Men

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GM	Sasikiran, Krishnan	2707	-	IM	Firat, Burak	2423	
GM	Negi, Parimarjan	2664	-	FM	Ali Marandi, Cemil Can	2362	
GM	Gupta, Abhijeet	2637	-	CM	Sanal, Vahap	2387	
GM	Gopal, Geetha Narayanan	2550	-	CM	Dastan, Muhammed Batuhan	2317

Women

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IM	Karavade, Eesha Sanjay	2371	-	WIM	Caoili, Arianne	2204	
IM	Sachdev, Tania	2379	-		Yu, Sally	1990	
WGM	Gomes, Mary Ann	2396	-		Nguyen, Giang	2105	
WGM	Soumya, Swaminathan	2271	-	WIM	Novakovic-Dekic, Biljana	2104

[sameerph]

Which teams are we playing ?

[jaydeep]

Which teams are we playing ?

In the second round our men's team is facing young Turkish side, Turkey 2016 and women's side is facing Australia.

[prashanthm]

Oops! missed the opponent country info completely..

Hari is taking a break today, while Sasi gets his first game.... Good strategy this to give the bottom board players more exposure during the initial rounds and the top board players more rest....

[Prashant]

Is this a Swiss system? You play better teams as you win more rounds?

Has there ever been a major chess tournament with a decent website? Why do they all suck so much?

[suresh]

Which teams are we playing ?

In the second round our men's team is facing young Turkish side, Turkey 2016 and women's side is facing Australia.

I wondered about that as well -- Turkey was easy to guess but the other team was tricky with Vietnamese, Serbian and Asian sounding names.

[suresh]

Is this a Swiss system? You play better teams as you win more rounds?
Has there ever been a major chess tournament with a decent website? Why do they all suck so much?

It is a Swiss system where you play teams with comparable scores/standing. The Chess Olympiad site appears to be similar if not identical to the one's I have seen in earlier Olympiads.

[jaydeep]

Has there ever been a major chess tournament with a decent website? Why do they all suck so much?

I think it is decent website with all necessary info - http://www.chessolympiadistanbul.com/

Our both teams loses unnecessary 1 and ½ point respectively against lowly rated Turkey 2016 men's team and Australia women's team ... We need to avoid such slip-up to finish inside top 10.

Men's Round 2
(13) India bt (72) Turkey 2016 3-1

GM Krishnan Sasikiran (IND,2707) bt IM Burak Firat (TUR16,2423) 1-0 (W)
GM Parimarjan Negi (IND,2664) dw FM Cemil Can Ali Marandi (TUR16,2362) ½-½ (B)
GM Abhijeet Gupta (IND,2637) bt FM Vahap Sanal (TUR16,2387) 1-0 (W)
GM Geetha Narayanan Gopal (IND,2550) dw FM Muhammed Batuhan Dastan (TUR16,2317) ½-½ (B)

Women's Round 2
(6) India bt (50) Australia 3½-½

IM Eesha Karavade (IND,2371) bt WIM Arianne Caoili (AUS,2204) 1-0 (W)
IM Tania Sachdev (IND,2379) bt Sally Yu (AUS,1990) 1-0 (B)
WGM Mary Ann Gomes (IND,2396) bt IM Duc Hoa Nguyen (AUS,2505) 1-0 (W)
WGM Swaminathan Soumya (IND,2271) dw Biljana Novakovic-Dekic (AUS,2104) ½-½ (B)

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Negi botched up a huge advantage in the end game to end up with a draw......
Gopal never got going in his game and managed only a draw...

On the women's side, it looked like a close one after Eesha's win on Board 1..., but Tania got some help from her opponent in mutual time trouble and Mary had enough advantage to get home the point for a 3.5-0.5 win......

Big upset of the day, Al-Modiahki stuns Ivanchuk and helps Qatar takes a point off Ukraine...
Only a couple of teams seem to be with the full 8 points so far......

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Rd 3

vs Solvenia for Men's team...
vs Armenia for Women's team, this could be tough......

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Rd 3 Pairings

Included countries today......

Men - Slovenia v. India

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GM	Lenic, Luka	2640	-	GM	Sasikiran, Krishnan	2707	
GM	Beliavsky, Alexander	2609	-	GM	Harikrishna, Pentala	2685	
GM	Sebenik, Matej	2552	-	GM	Gupta, Abhijeet	2637	
GM	Skoberne, Jure	2552	-	GM	Gopal, Geetha Narayanan	2550

Women - Armenia v. India

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GM	Danielian, Elina	2476	-	GM	Dronavalli, Harika	2503	
IM	Mkrtchian, Lilit	2454	-	IM	Karavade, Eesha Sanjay	2371	
IM	Galojan, Lilit	2349	-	IM	Sachdev, Tania	2379	
WGM	Kursova, Maria	2338	-	WGM	Gomes, Mary Ann	2396