2014 Chess Olympiad (Tromsø)

I don't have very good feelings about Hungary's match against China. This thing yesterday against Venezuela with Rapport losing and Judit winning a game with black which was valued +4 for white at some point, just for the 2300 Venezuelan FM to blunder it away in time trouble: this is not the way one is supposed to play against an opponent rated 300 points lower on average ( only Almasi had a clean win, Leko was OK to draw because Iturrizaga is a world class player to be reconed with ).

On the other hand China is rising, the 2700+ list is getting packed with chinese recently, there are almost as many chinese there as russians.

Why do players have to forfeit when they don't arrive  on time? Can't they just wait until the clock runs out and win on time?

Will there be a Germany Vs Brasil or Germany VS Argentina (jokes)

Germany vs Portugal would suit. 4-0 ;)

Impossible to see Germany versus Brasil since there only are 4 boards. (Sorry Brazilians, you have the best girls!)

Some of the matches should be crazy good, but am excited to see some of the potential individual games on the top boards:

Aronian v. MVL

Nakamura v. Giri

Irina Krush v. Yifan Hou

And every board in the whole Hungary v. China match should be great.

Germany against France is top quality, both in chess and football (soccer).

I think Norway would be hard to beat if everbody had to   put four chessplayers in the footballteam. Agdestein has put a goal for the national footballteam, and Carlsen is an ok footballplayer too. Football is an important toy in the Norwegian chessenvironment.

Round 3 pairings are now up:

https://chess24.com/en/olympiad2014/news/round-3-board-pairings-clash-of-the-titans

Nakamura is now in Tromsø (see the link in the post right above this one).

How long is it till the round starts?

8:00 am EST, I believe.

LOL this is a good match. Maybe USA can get revenge because of world cup loss:

I must celebrate. Norway 1 might win, and most of all , my clubmate in Nordtrand, Johan Salomon (17 years old)won with white over  the 120 higher rated IM Denis Kadric and saved a draw for Norway 2. Johan is heading for IM-norm. I think he has to bites in the norm already.

http://www.nrk.no/sport/sjakk/?sjakkparti=2013

Norway is a very pretty country, it would be nice to have a home there. I don't speak the language though.

First big match for the US and Nakamura draws with White after like 15 moves.  Way to represent your country.

Looks like England will tie Germany. Luckily for them they can't lose on penalty kicks.

I think I'm going to root for Cuba in this one.

I like to live here, and I like that all the forests and mountains and seas are for everyone to use, no matter who owns it. The language are difficult for Englishspaking people to learn, beacause most Norwegian thinks its fun to talk English, so it isnt nessesary enough. I live in the largest city with easy access to big forest and some crowded beaches by the sea. And I am euforic about my chessclub, where I started the 2. of January.

France beat Armenia & it looks like U.S. will draw their match. Russia is starting to do what's expected of them, they went 4-0. Norway won 3-1. The Hungary-China match still looks tough, hard to tell yet. England-Germany looks drawn.

Djonni, what % of the population do you estimate speak english there?

US loses to Netherlands. Maybe we can switch Kamsky to board #1.