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Graham Morrison vs Dritan Mehmeti
24th European Teams (2023), Budva MNE, rd 8, Nov-19
Queen's Indian Defense: Classical. Traditional Variation (E17)  ·  1-0

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Nov-22-23  SkySports: This was the only individual victory of Scotland in the whole tournament. Not surpringly, they closed in the last spot with zero points.

It must said, by the way, that they were by far the lowest rated team...

Nov-22-23
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  Sally Simpson: Yes P.9. L.9 had me having a minor grumble about this on the Chess Scotland Forum.

Chess Scotland cannot afford to pay traveling costs or appearance fees so the team was made up of brave volunteers who could afford to pay their own way and take the time off. Two players born in 1966, two in 1958 and one born in 1945!

My grumble was Scotland is fairly bristling with younger talent and the odd GM knocking about and chipped in with an idea how to raise funds to send a team who would at least register a 50% score.

Those who stepped up were very good players in their day, which is how I remember them. But father time did have an appearance fee and he popped up to encourage missed chances and silly blunders.

One case in point is A Muir vs H E Nielsen, 2023


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White's sense of danger totally deserted him, he played 31.Ra2 and resigned after Black's reply. Sadly all of the players had these moments.

And although I am a heartless sod when it comes to blunders and losses I really feel sorry for these guys (against all of those I played in the past I have a minus score. ) However, they were not sent into the lions' den they walked in on their own accord, they will have known they were on a hiding to nothing.

Having said that some of the games they lost were future POTD's, check out M Mitchell vs R Egilstoft, 2023


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White (again a sense of danger blip) played 27.Rd1. Wrap up that one as Black.

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