Congratulations from me too.
I still have three games going on. One I am going to win, the other two probably will end in draws, though the game against Ostschweiz is particularly difficult.
Michael, how are our chances to qualify?

Congratulations to TalJechin!  I just got this message after yet another win from him on Board 2:

1)     Name of the tournament: Champions League 2010 C Group 2 Board 2
2)     Start date of the tournament: 25 January 2010
3)     Category of the tournament: 1
4)     Name of the player: TalJechin
5)     ICCF ID of the player: 
6)     Nationality: SWE
7)     Norm achieved: IM
8)     Number of GMs and SIMs: N/A
9)     Number of points required for the norm: 9.5
10)  Score of the player so far: 10.0

Seems the team didnt get less strong 

Bump and update.

I'm nearly done with my games, standing at +6 =4 with two games left. Trying out corr-play has been an enjoyable experience and since the games have been going so well for me, I've actually just started a blog where I'll be commenting on the games in the order they were decided. First game will appear on Sunday the 8th of August and then more or less every Sunday evening until all have been accounted for. If the blogbug bites I might continue with other chess stuff as well...

http://borgchess.blogspot.com/


Btw, seeing the crosstable (http://www.iccf-webchess.com/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=20734) I noticed that it seems to be ordered according to game points and not match points. Is that officially what decides or is it just how they happened to sort the table?

Anyway, it seems that we might have a shot at taking one of the two qualifying spots to the B-group. At the moment we're 5th on game score but 2nd on percentage and 3rd on match points...

Willempie wrote on 05/22/10 at 09:39:32:


Thanks. Well, my main corr motivation was to try something new (or actually old, as I was a convinced 1.d4 and French player until the early 1990s).

Besides, after 1.e4 c5! it feels like an uphill battle for white. Especially since it seems very common in corr, so experienced corr players will have detailed files in all the critical MLs, while I've been playing the Grand Prix, Closed SI, and various 2nd/3rd moves for a long time now. - Ironically, it was the lure of the Open Sicilian that made me change to 1.e4 once upon a time.. 

Besides, as can be seen vs Triay - 1.d4 can be just as sharp as any crazy line after 1.e4.

Btw, I think 11.Qd3 vs Dorer and 18.Qe2 vs Triay Moll, are both novelties (after the game was over I saw that Dreev briefly mentions 18.Bf3, the comp's 1st choice.. 
If somebody wants Emms or Scherbakov to comment, send them an email! 

Good luck with that, as Scherbakov hasn't even commented on Bacrot-Aronian yet - the stem game of 17.f4!? though this seems much more poisonous practically than theoretically.

Congratulations to TalJechin on his fine win.  With that victory, I'm pleased to report that the team is rolling along at a 61% rate, top in our group, although we have completed fewer games than most teams.

Send a kind message to HgMan. He is the team-captain.