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| (1) Posted by Marjan Kovačević [Wednesday, Nov 26, 2008 00:55] |
A problemist playing well in the Dresden Olympiad
Those who followed the Dresden Olympiad may have noticed one problemist playing quite well. Bojan Vuckovic (28), European solving champion in 2007 and the runner-up in 2008, made 7 out of 9 on the fourth board of the Serbian team that ended on 20th place out of 146 teams. With Rating Performance 2.695, Bojan was only one point behind the bronze medal for the first reserve players (http://www.chess-results.com/).
It may be interesting to know that Bojan began solving chess problems 5-6 years ago, and he proved to be capable of composing very well, too. Since then, his OTB rating (2.561) has been growing all the time, as well as his solver's rating (2.652). After being a member of the Serbian solving team for the last 4 years, in 2008 he was invited to the Serbian chess team for the Olympiad as a reserve player. At the end, he had the best Rating Performance of all five. A nice example for young chess players to be introduced to Problem Chess!
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| (2) Posted by Miodrag Mladenović [Wednesday, Nov 26, 2008 10:08] |
By the way, I did enjoy following up on his games online. Regardless if he is black or white he always goes for win. My congrats to Bojan!
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| (3) Posted by Frank Richter [Wednesday, Nov 26, 2008 10:31] |
At least two other problemists played in Dresden in the main tourney:
Colin McNab (SCO): 5/9
Michael Prusikin (GER3): 5,5/9
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| (4) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Wednesday, Nov 26, 2008 13:33] |
Hrmph, with my lousy 2300 (and an even lousier score in
the side tourney) I maybe should emigrate to Finland
to be able to play the next chess olympiad.
Väisi, viilti, veisti, voitti! :-)
Hauke
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| (5) Posted by Eric Huber [Thursday, Nov 27, 2008 22:17] |
Congratulations to Bojan for his great result. I saw some of his games and was really amazed by his impressive fighting spirits.
Let's not forget the women's Olympiads (Dinu-Ioan Nicula reminded them to me). The Romanian players Alina Motoc and Iozefina Paulet took respectively 3rd place on board 5 and 4th place on board 4. Alina and Iozefina are also solvers and took respectively the silver and bronze medals at the last Romanian solving championship (women) at Amara in 2007.
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| (6) Posted by Neal Turner [Monday, Dec 1, 2008 10:44] |
According to the July list, there are 50 players in Finland with a FIDE rating above 2300 - so you'd have to go to the back of a rather long queue!
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| (7) Posted by Sarah Hornecker [Monday, Dec 1, 2008 15:10]; edited by Sarah Hornecker [08-12-02] |
If Antarctica joins the FIDE, you can go there to be the first chess player from that continent. :-)
PS, after seeing Thomas' reply below: I meant moving permanently.
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| (8) Posted by Hauke Reddmann [Monday, Dec 1, 2008 18:33] |
The tempo at which I go braindead, Tonga Islands maybe an option.
(I must have mislooked - I remember ELO ratings of ~2250 listed
somewhere which is of course nonsense, they have a 2600+ GM playing.
Simplify read "Finland" as "far far away" :-)
Hauke
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| (9) Posted by Thomas Maeder [Monday, Dec 1, 2008 22:46] |
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If Antarctica joins the FIDE, you can go there to be the first chess player from that continent. :-)
Hmm. http://www.franziska-iseli.ch/Antarctica/ThomasinAntarctica.html
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