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cathexis God Member Offline No matter where you go, there you are. Posts: 614 Joined: 03/03/20	Re: European Team championship (Budva 11-20/11 2023) Reply #3 - 11/21/23 at 14:08:18	Post Tools	Print Post
	Serbia discovered the Volcano Defense, it blew up at Iceland.


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Re: European Team championship (Budva 11-20/11 2023)
Reply #2 - 11/21/23 at 07:05:20

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an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 11/21/23 at 04:57:56:

It was very close at the end. Serbia played well, but maybe they were lucky they could blank Iceland in the first round. I remember flipping from a report about Grindavik evacuations on the Saturday, to reviewing the round one results where only Iceland and Montenegro Youth went 0-4. How focused were the Icelanders on the boards in front of them?

Going through the games Iceland actually seemed to fight very well in R1. It's just they somehow didn't end up with any points despite this. Pretty extraordinary scoring from Serbia there.
Speaking of Iceland. In the last round they not only go ahead and miraculously save a -5 position, they also dodge a TB loss (opponent missed it) and in the end draw Turkey 2-2. That meant four massively sweet Sonneborn-Berger points for Serbia. There are obviously a lot of other last round matches and even individual games that could have impacted the tiebreak as well, but that's the most funny example to me.

White to move. 47.Kxd5(?) was played.

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an ordinary chessplayer God Member Offline I used to be not bad. Posts: 1680 Location: Columbus, OH (USA) Joined: 01/02/15	Re: European Team championship (Budva 11-20/11 2023) Reply #1 - 11/21/23 at 04:57:56	Post Tools	Print Post
	It was very close at the end. Serbia played well, but maybe they were lucky they could blank Iceland in the first round. I remember flipping from a report about Grindavik evacuations on the Saturday, to reviewing the round one results where only Iceland and Montenegro Youth went 0-4. How focused were the Icelanders on the boards in front of them? Of course there is always some luck in Swiss events.


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Confused_by_Theory God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 649 Location: Europe Joined: 05/13/15 Gender:	European Team championship (Budva 11-20/11 2023) 11/20/23 at 23:38:22	Post Tools	Print Post
	Hello. Congratulations to Serbia on winning the European team ch. 2023 and Bulgaria for winning the Women's tournament. https://chess-results.com/tnr832215.aspx?lan=1&art=0&rd=9&turdet=YES&flag=30 I looked at the tiebreaks below if anyone is interested (not official calculation though). It's funny how literally half a game point difference in numerous matches (not only Serbia's or Germany's) could have swung the tiebreak to favour Germany. Serbia Iceland 4x9 Italy 2,5x9 Germany 1,5x15 Slovenia 3x8 Croatia 3x11 Armenia 2x13 Romania 2,5x11 England 2,5x11 Greece 3x11 = 252 - cut 1 (Slovenia 24) Total = 228 Germany Sweden 2,5x8 Hungary 2,5x11 Serbia 2,5x15 Poland 2x12 Armenia 3x13 Romania 2x11 England 2x11 France 2,5x11 Croatia 2,5x11 = 247 -cut1 (Sweden 20) = 227 Have a nice day.


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