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Friday, November 26, 2010

Snowdrops lead 14-10 against Oldhands in Czech Coal Chess

Chess news and chess trivia blog (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2010



Chess in the snow: Mariánské Lázne

Hello Everyone,

The Snowdrops are doing a nice chess job in the beautiful city of Mariánské Lázne where it is snowing nicely. They are ahead of the veterans (Oldhands) by 14-10 after six rounds.

The Snowdrops vs Oldhands Czech Coal Match 2010 is being held from November 20-27. The (rising generation girls) of Snowdrops are Indian grandmaster Humpy Koneru, currently the world second highest rated female player, the Lithuanian grandmaster Viktorija Cmilyte, the Philippine born Australian WIM Arianne Caoili and the Czech WIM Tereza Olsarova. The 20th century chess legends are Lájoš Portisch, Vlastimil Hort, Dragoljub Velimirovic and Wolfgang Uhlmann.

The games start each day at 3 p.m. in the Villa Butterfly Hotel in Marienbad. The rate of play is 90 minutes for 40 moves, 30 minutes for the rest, with an increament of 30 seconds per move.

Team results

R1
R2
R3
R4
R5
R6
R7
R8
Snowdrops
3
1
3.5
2.5
2.0
2.0
Oldhands
1
3
0.5
1.5
2.0
2.0
Total Snowdrops
3
4
7.5
10
12
14
Total Oldhands
1
4
4.5
6
8
10

Individual results

O1
O2
O3
O4
O1
O2
O3
O4
Total
S1Humpy Koneru
1
0
1
1
1/2
1
4.5
S2Arianne Caoili
1
1/2
1
0
0
0
2.5
S3Tereza Olsarova
1
1/2
0
1/2
1
0
3.0
S4Viktorija Cmilyte
1/2
1
1
1
1/2
0
4.0
S1
S2
S3
S4
S1
S2
S3
OS4
O1Wolfgang Uhlmann
0
1
0
0
0
0
1.0
O2Vlastimil Hort
1/2
1/2
1
1
1/2
1/2
4.0
O3Lajos Portisch
1
0
1/2
0
1/2
0
2.0
O4Dragoljub Velimirovic
0
1
1
0
1
0
3.0



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