European Team Chess Championship 2017 Rd2

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Hungary beat Azerbaijan.

Papp,P defended solidly and won as Black against a Scotch in an interesting RR vs RBN endgame.

Hungary will face Georgia next round.

Round 2 on 2017/10/29 at 15:00
Bo. 13 Israel Rtg – 15 Italy Rtg 3½: ½
1.1 IM
Shvayger, Yuliya
2442 – IM
Zimina, Olga
2394 ½ – ½
1.2 WGM
Efroimski, Marsel
2329 – FM
Brunello, Marina
2353 1 – 0
1.3 IM
Klinova, Masha
2289 – IM
Sedina, Elena
2288 1 – 0
1.4 WIM
Gutmakher, Olga
2226 – FM
Di Benedetto, Desiree
2190 1 – 0
Bo. 16 Czech Republic Rtg – 1 Russia Rtg 1½:2½
2.1 WGM
Worek, Joanna
2299 – GM
Kosteniuk, Alexandra
2552 0 – 1
2.2 WIM
Havlikova, Kristyna
2272 – GM
Lagno, Kateryna
2541 0 – 1
2.3 WGM
Rodshtein, Tereza
2233 – WGM
Girya, Olga
2505 ½ – ½
2.4
Novosadova, Kristyna
2184 – WGM
Goryachkina, Aleksandra
2478 1 – 0
Bo. 6 France Rtg – 2 Georgia Rtg ½ :3½
3.1 GM
Sebag, Marie
2495 – IM
Batsiashvili, Nino
2472 0 – 1
3.2 IM
Milliet, Sophie
2377 – GM
Khotenashvili, Bela
2459 0 – 1
3.3 IM
Skripchenko, Almira
2399 – IM
Javakhishvili, Lela
2438 ½ – ½
3.4 WGM
Guichard, Pauline
2285 – IM
Melia, Salome
2412 0 – 1
Bo. 3 Ukraine Rtg – 11 Armenia Rtg 3 : 1
4.1 GM
Muzychuk, Anna
2576 – GM
Danielian, Elina
2415 1 – 0
4.2 GM
Zhukova, Natalia
2426 – IM
Mkrtchian, Lilit
2390 ½ – ½
4.3 GM
Ushenina, Anna
2445 – WGM
Kursova, Maria
2259 ½ – ½
4.4 IM
Gaponenko, Inna
2433 – WIM
Gevorgyan, Maria
2262 1 – 0
Bo. 4 Poland Rtg – 5 Germany Rtg 3 : 1
5.1 GM
Socko, Monika
2479 – IM
Paehtz, Elisabeth
2453 ½ – ½
5.2 IM
Szczepkowska, Karina
2406 – WIM
Heinemann, Josefine
2269 1 – 0
5.3 WGM
Kulon, Klaudia
2358 – WGM
Hoolt, Sarah
2423 1 – 0
5.4 WGM
Majdan, Joanna
2349 – WGM
Levushkina, Elena
2309 ½ – ½
Bo. 8 Azerbaijan Rtg – 7 Hungary Rtg 1½:2½
6.1 WGM
 
Mammadzada, Gunay
2393 – GM
 
Hoang, Thanh Trang
2438 1 – 0
6.2 WGM
 
Mamedjarova, Zeinab
2298 – IM
 
Lazarne Vajda, Szidonia
2364 0 – 1
6.3 WGM
 
Fataliyeva, Ulviyya
2348 – WGM
 
Papp, Petra
2326 0 – 1
6.4 IM
 
Mammadova, Gulnar
2385 – IM
 
Gara, Anita
2382 ½ – ½
Bo. 12 Spain Rtg – 9 Romania Rtg 3½: ½
7.1 IM
Vega Gutierrez, Sabrina
2405 – IM
Bulmaga, Irina
2423 1 – 0
7.2 FM
Garcia Martin, Marta
2315 – IM
Peptan, Corina-Isabela
2399 1 – 0
7.3 IM
Matnadze, Ana
2368 – WGM
Cosma, Elena-Luminita
2333 1 – 0
7.4 WGM
Calzetta Ruiz, Monica
2218 – WGM
Sandu, Mihaela
2278 ½ – ½
Bo. 10 Turkey Rtg – 14 Netherlands Rtg 2½:1½
8.1 IM
Atalik, Ekaterina
2468 – GM
Peng, Zhaoqin
2362 1 – 0
8.2 WGM
Yildiz Kadioglu, Betul Cemre
2350 – WGM
Haast, Anne
2288 ½ – ½
8.3 WGM
Ozturk, Kubra
2364 – WGM
Paulet, Iozefina
2281 1 – 0
8.4 WFM
Arda, Cagil Irmak
2040 – FM
Kazarian, Anna-Maja
2191 0 – 1
Bo. 17 Greece 1 Rtg – 23 England Rtg 3 : 1
9.1 WGM
Botsari, Anna-Maria
2287 – IM
Houska, Jovanka
2393 ½ – ½
9.2 WGM
Tsolakidou, Stavroula
2340 – IM
Ciuksyte, Dagne
2318 1 – 0
9.3 WIM
Pavlidou, Ekaterini
2198 – FM
Kalaiyalahan, Akshaya
2026 ½ – ½
9.4 FM
Avramidou, Anastasia
2257 – WFM
Bhatia, Kanwal K
2080 1 – 0
Bo. 25 Austria Rtg – 18 Belarus Rtg ½ :3½
10.1 WIM
Newrkla, Katharina
2170 – IM
Ziaziulkina, Nastassia
2369 ½ – ½
10.2 WIM
Exler, Veronika
2118 – WIM
Badelka, Olga
2353 0 – 1
10.3 WFM
Schnegg, Anna-Lena
2114 – WFM
Revo, Tatiana
2097 0 – 1
10.4 WFM
Novkovic, Julia
2111 –
Ilyuchyk, Yana
1992 0 – 1
Bo. 19 Serbia Rtg – 26 Switzerland Rtg 2½:1½
11.1 WGM
Rapport, Jovana
2327 – WFM
Georgescu, Lena
2130 1 – 0
11.2 WIM
Eric, Jovana
2257 – WIM
Heinatz, Dr. Gundula
2174 1 – 0
11.3 WIM
Zarkovic, Mila
2241 – WFM
De Seroux, Camille
2163 0 – 1
11.4 WFM
Injac, Teodora
2244 – WFM
Stoeri, Laura
2150 ½ – ½
Bo. 29 Belgium Rtg – 20 Slovenia Rtg 0 : 4
12.1 WFM
Goossens, Hanne
2188 – WIM
Unuk, Laura
2363 0 – 1
12.2 WFM
Vanhuyse, Nele
2061 – WGM
Krivec, Jana
2270 0 – 1
12.3
Barbier, Astrid
1815 – WFM
Janzelj, Lara
2192 0 – 1
12.4 WCM
Vanduyfhuys, Daria
1737 – WFM
Vidic, Teja
2159 0 – 1
Bo. 22 Croatia Rtg – 24 Lithuania Rtg 2 : 2
13.1 WGM
Golubenko, Valentina
2291 – IM
Cornette, Deimante
2404 0 – 1
13.2 WIM
Franciskovic, Borka
2242 – WIM
Zaksaite, Salomeja
2272 0 – 1
13.3 WFM
Purgar, Ivona
2200 – WIM
Kiseleva, Simona
2241 1 – 0
13.4 FM
Cvitan, Ena
2165 –
Gailiunaite, Saule
1838 1 – 0
Bo. 27 Greece 2 Rtg – 28 Norway Rtg 2 : 2
14.1 WIM
Makka, Ioulia
2182 – WIM
Sahl, Sheila Barth
2180 0 – 1
14.2
Makka, Evanthia
2095 –
Machlik, Edit
2030 0 – 1
14.3
Serefidou, Despina
1965 –
Kyrkjebo, Hanna B.
1996 1 – 0
14.4
Vozinaki, Anthi – Maria
1989 – WFM
Rodsmoen, Maud
1972 1 – 0
Bo. 31 Montenegro Rtg – 30 FYROM Rtg 1½:2½
15.1 WIM
Milovic, Aleksandra
2191 – WFM
Stojkovska, Monika
2088 0 – 1
15.2 WIM
Stojanovic, Marija R
2102 –
Nikolovska, Dragana
1854 1 – 0
15.3
Koljevic, Nikolina
1837 –
Bejatovic, Bojana
2035 ½ – ½
15.4
Delevic, Nina
1745 – WIM
Koskoska, Gabriela
2018 0 – 1
Bo. 21 Slovakia Rtg – 32 Finland Rtg 4 : 0
16.1 WGM
Cibickova, Zuzana
2290 –
Dannenberg, Alia
1975 1 – 0
16.2 WFM
Vrbova, Niki
2188 – WFM
Puuska, Heini
1947 1 – 0
16.3 WFM
Motycakova, Monika
2143 –
Rinne, Heini
1765 1 – 0
16.4 WFM
Vrtiakova, Anna
1994 – WFM
Walta, Paivi
1672 1 – 0

Round 1 Games

Gara,A-Maroroa

After 29..Nxe4(Diagram)

Find the knockout blow.

After 29..Nxe4

Kalaiyalahan-Gara,T

After 32.Nd6(Diagram)

The strong knight on d6 gives some compensation for the pawn but Black also has strongly centralized minor pieces.

A pawn is pawn so how should Black continue?

After 32.Nd6

Standings Rank after Round 2

It is too early to get exited as there is a traffic jam of undefeated teams at the moment.

Rk. SNo FED Team Games   +   =   –  TB1  TB2  TB3  TB4  TB5
1 13 ISR Israel 2 2 0 0 4 7,0 6,5 5,5 18,8
2 2 GEO Georgia 2 2 0 0 4 7,0 6,0 9,0 26,5
3 12 ESP Spain 2 2 0 0 4 7,0 6,0 7,0 21,0
4 4 POL Poland 2 2 0 0 4 6,0 5,5 9,5 25,8
5 3 UKR Ukraine 2 2 0 0 4 6,0 5,5 8,5 23,5
6 10 TUR Turkey 2 2 0 0 4 5,0 5,5 6,5 17,5
7 7 HUN Hungary 2 2 0 0 4 5,0 5,5 6,0 16,0
8 1 RUS Russia 2 2 0 0 4 5,0 5,0 10,0 25,0

Open

A smashing victory for Hungary.

Bo. 20 Romania Rtg – 7 Hungary Rtg ½ :3½
2.1 GM
 
Lupulescu, Constantin
2620 – GM
 
Leko, Peter
2679 ½ – ½
2.2 GM
 
Parligras, Mircea-Emilian
2616 – GM
 
Rapport, Richard
2686 0 – 1
2.3 GM
 
Deac, Bogdan-Daniel
2560 – GM
 
Almasi, Zoltan
2707 0 – 1
2.4 GM
 
Szabo, Gergely-Andras-Gyula
2563 – GM
 
Berkes, Ferenc
2661 0 – 1

Erdos-Steingrimsson rd1

After 18..Rc8(Diagram)

Black unnecessarily weakening his kingside pawns shield earlier and hopes the bishops and c-pawn will be enough compensation after taking the c5-pawn.

How should White deal with this plan?

After 18..Rc8

Gretarsson-Rapport,R rd1

Queen’s Indian Defence

Rapport played the Queen’s Indian quite creatively and exploited some optimistic but ultimately loosening pawn play by White.

After 44.Re7(Diagram)

The Ne5 is attacked.

How should Black continue?

After 44.Re7

Standings Rank after Round 2

Rk. SNo FED Team Games   +   =   –  TB1  TB2  TB3  TB4  TB5
1 7 HUN Hungary 2 2 0 0 4 7,0 6,5 8,0 26,3
2 10 NED Netherlands 2 2 0 0 4 6,0 5,5 9,0 24,5
3 6 ARM Armenia 2 2 0 0 4 6,0 5,5 9,0 24,3
4 11 CZE Czech Republic 2 2 0 0 4 5,0 6,0 6,5 18,3
5 22 ITA Italy 2 2 0 0 4 5,0 5,0 10,5 26,3
6 14 CRO Croatia 2 2 0 0 4 5,0 5,0 9,5 23,8
7 1 RUS Russia 2 2 0 0 4 5,0 5,0 9,0 22,5
8 12 FRA France 2 1 1 0 3 6,0 5,5 6,5 15,3
9 15 ESP Spain 2 1 1 0 3 6,0 5,0 8,5 20,0
10 9 GER Germany 2 1 1 0 3 3,5 5,5 5,5 14,8
11 4 ENG England 2 1 1 0 3 3,0 5,0 6,0 15,0
12 5 ISR Israel 2 1 1 0 3 3,0 5,0 6,0 15,0
13 8 POL Poland 2 1 1 0 3 3,0 5,0 5,5 14,0
14 19 GRE Greece 1 2 1 0 1 2 6,0 5,5 7,5 16,3
15 2 AZE Azerbaijan 2 1 0 1 2 6,0 5,5 5,5 9,5
16 16 BLR Belarus 2 1 0 1 2 6,0 5,0 7,0 14,5
17 17 SRB Serbia 2 1 0 1 2 6,0 5,0 7,0 14,5
18 18 TUR Turkey 2 1 0 1 2 6,0 5,0 6,5 12,8
19 3 UKR Ukraine 2 1 0 1 2 6,0 5,0 6,0 10,0
20 13 GEO Georgia 2 1 0 1 2 6,0 4,5 9,0 18,0
21 34 POR Portugal 2 1 0 1 2 6,0 4,5 6,5 12,0
22 21 SLO Slovenia 2 1 0 1 2 6,0 4,0 7,0 12,5
23 30 MNE Montenegro 2 1 0 1 2 4,0 4,0 7,0 10,0
24 27 ISL Iceland 2 1 0 1 2 4,0 3,5 8,5 11,5
25 26 SUI Switzerland 2 1 0 1 2 4,0 3,5 7,5 10,5
26 20 ROU Romania 2 1 0 1 2 2,0 4,5 8,5 11,3
27 29 GRE Greece 2 2 0 1 1 1 6,0 3,0 10,5 16,0
28 24 MDA Moldova 2 0 1 1 1 6,0 3,0 10,0 15,0
29 25 NOR Norway 2 0 1 1 1 6,0 3,0 10,0 15,0
30 28 SVK Slovakia 2 0 1 1 1 6,0 2,5 10,5 12,8
31 35 FAI Faroe Islands 2 0 1 1 1 3,0 3,0 7,0 9,0
32 33 MKD FYROM 2 0 1 1 1 2,0 3,0 6,5 8,5
33 39 GRE Greece – Crete 2 0 1 1 1 0,0 2,0 8,5 6,0
34 40 SCO Scotland 2 0 1 1 1 0,0 2,0 7,5 6,0
35 36 BEL Belgium 2 0 0 2 0 3,0 2,0 8,5 7,8
36 37 ALB Albania 2 0 0 2 0 3,0 2,0 8,5 7,8
37 31 DEN Denmark 2 0 0 2 0 2,0 2,0 10,0 9,0
38 38 KOS Kosovo* 2 0 0 2 0 2,0 1,5 9,0 6,5
39 32 FIN Finland 2 0 0 2 0 1,5 1,5 10,0 7,3
40 23 AUT Austria 2 0 0 2 0 1,0 0,5 10,5 2,5

 

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