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| Sep-18-24 | | GlennOliver: Bodhana Sivanandan, aged 9, must surely be the youngest player ever to appear in the Chess Olympiads. A tremendous achievement, congratulations to her. |
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Sep-18-24
 | | perfidious: That youngster smashes the mark which, so far as I know, was long held by the late Andrew Scherman, who competed at Siegen 1970, aged eleven, then in Nice four years on. |
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Sep-18-24
 | | Troller: Randa Seder was 8 years old when playing the last Olympiad. Bodhana is the youngest Brit ever to compete in the Olympiad though. |
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Sep-18-24
| | perfidious: John Jarecki competed for the British Virgin Islands at La Valletta in 1980 and Lucerne 1982. |
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| Sep-18-24 | | fabelhaft: The game of the day, worthy of deeper analysis than given at lichess, maybe especially of moves 28 top 32: https://lichess.org/broadcast/45th-... |
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| Sep-18-24 | | fabelhaft: The last of several times the Seychelles player with black in the game above failed to find Qc1+
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| Sep-18-24 | | fabelhaft: And here the position before black’s last move, there are many fairly quick mates, the easiest maybe beginning with Rf5+ but black found the quickest of them all with Nxd5:
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Sep-19-24
| | Troller: <fabelhaft> Same game? We should consider that the top diagram involves a rather long move. Not to mention it is also a <mate-in-3> which is of course never easy. |
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| Sep-19-24 | | fabelhaft: <Same game?> Yes, Barra Ana had lost all her previous 13 Olympiad games and must have had her hopes up quite a bit before that last move... |
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Sep-20-24
 | | Atterdag: Carissa Yip, USA, has played in all rounds. 6½ of 7. Very impressive. Her games bear witness of her usual dynamic/aggressive style. |
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Sep-20-24
 | | keypusher: <Atterdag: Carissa Yip, USA, has played in all rounds. 6½ of 7. Very impressive. Her games bear witness of her usual dynamic/aggressive style.> Alice Lee is no Yip when it comes to dynamism, but she's also got 6 1/2 out of 7. The U.S. women are playing powerhouse India next. |
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Sep-20-24
| | Atterdag: Yes, indeed, quite remarkable achievement by both of them. |
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Sep-20-24
| | keypusher: < keypusher: <Atterdag: Carissa Yip, USA, has played in all rounds. 6½ of 7. Very impressive. Her games bear witness of her usual dynamic/aggressive style.>
Alice Lee is no Yip when it comes to dynamism, but she's also got 6 1/2 out of 7. The U.S. women are playing powerhouse India next.> ...and, it was a 2:2 tie. Tokhirjonova won, Krush lost, Yip and Lee drew. |
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Sep-21-24
| | keypusher: <Atterdag> I checked the official website. Yip has played in 9 out of 9 rounds and scored +7-0=2. Eight times on Board 2 and once on Board 1. Lee has played in 8 rounds and scored +6-0=2, five times on Board 4 and three times on Board 3. So yes, very impressive by both of them, but especially Yip. https://chessolympiad2024.fide.com/... |
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| Sep-21-24 | | fabelhaft: An 80-year-old that isn’t doing too badly:
Budapest Olympiad (Women) (2024)/Rani Hamid |
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| Sep-21-24 | | notyetagm: <Atterdag: Yes, indeed, quite remarkable achievement by both of them.> With one round to go, Yip has Gold on Board 2 and Lee has Silver on Board 4. BOARD PRIZES -> https://chess-results.com/tnr967172... The Women's Team would win Gold if they beat Kazakhstan and India loses. |
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| Sep-22-24 | | fabelhaft: India is leading before the last round, which is surprising given how much their top boards have underperformed. Board 1 has lost 13 Elo and isn’t among the top 15 on board 1, while board 2 lost 9 Elo and isn’t top 10. On board 1 the 2256 rated Mongolian player has performed 50 Elo better than Harika (2502) and on board 2 the 49 year old Repkova (2319) performed almost 200 Elo better than Vaishali (2498). |
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Sep-22-24
| | keypusher: And Yip won again to wrap up an amazing Olympiad. But it's not looking great for the U.S. team overall against Kazakhstan. |
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| Sep-22-24 | | Fish55: In the end the best team won, the US team can thank their young players for winning the bronze, and China choked. |
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| Sep-22-24 | | notyetagm: <In the end the best team won, the US team can thank their young players for winning the bronze, and China choked.> Yip (10/11!) and Lee (8) scored 18 points, the other 3 players scored 12.5. |
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Sep-23-24
| | Atterdag: For reasons unknown to myself (!), I have a particular admiration for Carissa Yip. A modest and charming young woman who has given women chess in the US a boost. What a fantastic result here in Budapest. Love her style of play, how skillfully she outmanoeuvres her opponents. |
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| Sep-23-24 | | notyetagm: <Atterdag> Yep, Yip did beyond great, as did Alice Lee. Krush and Zatonsikh were just along for the ride, like when your group project gets an A+ and you did almost nothing. |
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| Sep-24-24 | | notyetagm: <Fish55: In the end the best team won, the US team can thank their young players for winning the bronze, and China choked.> Also have to thank the Ukrainian women's champion for giving up a fortress with 62 ... Rf5-g5? to lose a critical game and give the otherwise drawn Round 10 match to the USA. G Tokhirjonova vs Y Osmak, 2024 
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Sep-26-24
| | Atterdag: <notyetagm: <Atterdag> Yep, Yip did beyond great, as did Alice Lee. Krush and Zatonsikh were just along for the ride, like when your group project gets an A+ and you did almost nothing.> LOL to <Yep Yip> and the <group project>! Many of us can recognize the mechanics in the latter. :-) To be a bit fair towards Zatonskih and Krush they probably did their best but didn't meet opponents they were comfortable with. That need not have anything to do with ranking and placement, but more about style. |
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Jan-06-25
 | | GrahamClayton: 8 countries fielded teams in a women's Olympiad for the first time in Budapest: https://wom.fide.com/incredible-res... |
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