A few details of my forthcoming adventure should anyone be particularly bored over the next week or so.
I shall be away with my 4NCL team at the European Club Cup in Durres, Albania – 7 rounds, 1st to 7th October ( flying at 07:00 the day after the Corden Cup 🙁- ).
The full details of the event and, subsequently, the results can be found here => Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com – 38th European Chess Club Cup
This is our 6th assault on Europe, over the last 15 years, and we always seem to be ranked just below halfway which means we get paired with a monster team in the first round (which is perfect, previous round 1 opposing teams have featured Ivanchuk, Kamsky, Vitiugov and assorted 2700’s etc ).
As of today, we are seeded 49th of 84 so a team with a mere average of 2625 beckons.
The top seeds, the imaginatively named ‘Superchess’ aren’t bad =>
1 GM Anand, Viswanathan 2754 IND
2 GM Rapport, Richard 2752 ROU
3 GM Deac, Bogdan-Daniel 2702 ROU
4 GM Shevchenko, Kirill 2677 ROU
5 GM Van Foreest, Jorden 2699 NED
6 GM Fedoseev, Vladimir 2683 SLO
7 GM Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 2600 ROU
8 GM Lupulescu, Constantin 2581 ROU
The 4th seeded Norwegian team have quite a decent top board as well 🙂-
Anyway, if I get time / remember I shall try to post some updates and, maybe, even point readers at a decent game or two.
I guess the games (certainly the top x matches anyway ) will be going out live from 15:00 Albanian time. My Team is Blackthorne.