England’s senior team won three European gold medals on Wednesday, as a generation that was second only to the Soviet Union in the 1980s and 1990s continued to show its enduring strength. The nine-day tournament was held in Terme Catez, Slovenia, and involved 21 over-50 teams and 30 over-65 teams.
England’s Over-50 Grandmasters team, consisting of John Ames, Glenn Freer, Keith Acker, Nigel Davies and Stuart Conquest, lost in the second round Montenegro recovered well, winning its next five games before losing to Hungary in the penultimate round.
In the last round, after playing against other top teams, they met England’s second team and won 3-1, defeating Hungary and Italy in the tie-break. All three of them got match points of 14/18 . Acker and Conquest won individual gold, Davis silver and Fryer bronze.
In the crucial match against Italy, Conquest relied on the tactic of 32…d2+! to win the deciding game with a score of 2.5-1.5.
England 65+ was led by individual world 65+ champion John Nunn, who scored an impressive victory in the final round, sacrificing the knight on f5 to reach the winning queen and pawn endgame.
Peter Large launched a scathing attack on the ultra-fortified Fort Knox variant of the French defense, then tweeted: “I’ve debunked Fort Knox!”
Tony Kosten, Chris Baker and Nigel Povah make up the team. In the end, England was 17/18, Slovakia was 15, and Slovenia was 14.
England’s over-50 women’s team of Sheila Jackson, Natasha Regan, Petra Funk-Nunn, Helen Frostick and Susan Chadwick also won gold, although they were the only ones with Female players competing against men. At last year’s World 50+ event, England’s women’s team also won the gold medal, ahead of the favorites, China.
The next major senior event is the World Senior Championship in Krakow, Poland, from July 1st to 12th. Since the United States is the main competitor, this may be much more difficult. England, with the help of a new £500,000 government grant for elite chess, will field at least nine teams, with the over-50 team led by world champion Michael Adams and the over-65 team led by Nunn . In both 2022 and 2023, there were over 50 close games with Team USA, resulting in one gold medal and one silver medal each.
15 歲的施裡亞斯·羅亞爾(Shreyas Royal) 在價值60,000 歐元的沙迦公開賽中取得了良好的開局，他正在尋求自己的第三個也是最後一個特級大師標準，並打破英國年齡log.
The Greenwich teenager beat top Kazakh general manager Rinat Jumabayev in the first round with a rating of 2595.
The Royals lost in the second round to UAE’s No. 1 Salem Saleh, rated 2629, and then again in the third round against Australia’s No. 1 Temur Kuybokarov, rated 2600, This time the opponent ends with a checkmate at the end of the marathon queen and pawn.
Royal, a formidable attacker who lost to Iran’s top master Parham Maghsoodloo in the fourth round on Friday with two points from three , ranked 19th in the world with a rating of 2732.
Royal’s performance rating in the tournament so far is 2733 points, well above the 2600 points he needs in the GM standard, and the rich Sharjah Championship also has the potential to be the international opportunity for the 15-year-old to flourish. The stage for a major breakthrough in your chess career.
The Maghsoodloo vs Royal match starts at 11.15am BST and you can watch the lichess match play by play.
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Since relinquishing his world title last year, Magnus Carlsen seems to have had a weight lifted off his shoulders and is competing with a newfound freedom. Despite trailing China’s Wei Yi by 2.5 points after five days of play, the top-ranked player took victory in the Superbet Poland Quick and Blitz in Warsaw.Carlsen has won ten games in a row, including a late win over his opponent captured on videoand then won the last two games by half a point.
Wei remains a revelation. At 15, the now 24-year-old became the youngest player ever to reach an elite GM rating of 2700, but he prioritized his math studies in subsequent years before returning in impressive fashion at the start of this year Wijk aan Zee Championship Tour. His style of play is highly tactical, echoing that of the great Mikhail Tal, and he is ready to excel in the blitz, as his brilliant performance in Warsaw proved.
After Warsaw, Carlsen won seven consecutive online or overall games, although none of them were played under the slow classical time limit. He has strong online skills and successfully won an early round of the Chess.com Classic last week.
An eighth victory looked imminent on Wednesday, as Carlsen moved 2-1 ahead in the finals over Alireza Firouzja and won the fourth game but missed out Promote his e-piece for a chance of victory.
The effect was dramatic, with Firouzja winning that match and then the Armageddon tiebreaker before repeating the process in their rematch. Firouzja was so comfortable with his anticipated failure early on that he neglected to prepare: “I was so tired of setting up gaps for him that I just played to the best of my ability.”
Carlsen’s next classic event will be the Norwegian Chess Tournament in Stavanger starting on May 27, where he will face top American pair Fabiano Caruana and Nakamura Hikaru Nakamura, and world champion Ding Liren.
Before that, there’s this weekend’s Casablanca Chess, a novel idea that will be tested at the Moroccan Championship supported by the Casablanca Stock Exchange. Carlsen, former world champion Vichy Anand, Nakamura and Bassem Amin will compete using selected locations from the famous historic game. Games kick off at 4.15pm (BST) on Saturday and 7.15pm on Sunday, with all games live on chess.com.
3920 1…Qh1+ 2 Ke2 Rxe3+ 4 matches! 3 fxe3 (3 Kxe3 Qe4 paired) Qg2+ 4 Kd3 Qd2 paired.
