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Four nations meet

16 February 2008 6:13 PM | Last modified: 22:17

Their top player is in Mexico, but the Norwegians do manage to attract some attention anyway by inviting England, Latvia and Sweden for their Four Nations Chess Challenge.

This weekend (15-17 February) the four nations England, Latvia, Sweden and host nation Norway are playing in matches over 10 boards, with five female and five male players on all teams. There’s one round per day with a time control of 90 minutes + 30 minutes with 30 seconds increment, just like at Olympiads, for which this event will serve as excellent preparation.

Favorite to win this event is Sweden, who came with 2500 players on the first six boards. And indeed, they scored a big victory on Friday against England, who didn’t bring their strongest players.

Four Nations Chess Leage | Round 1 Results

  Latvia 5 5 Norway
1. GM Normunds Miezis (2553) ½ ½ GM Kjetil A. Lie (2556)
2. GM Maris Krakops (2525) 0 1 GM Leif E. Johannessen (2521)
3. GM Evgeny Sveshnikov (2506) 0 1 GM Berge Østenstad (2482)
4. IM Arturs Neiksans (2470) 0 1 GM Rune Djurhuus (2452)
5. Vadims Daskevics (2331) 1 0 IM Espen Lie (2428)
6. WGM Dana Reizniece (2309) 1 0 WIM Sheila B. Sahl (2227)
7. WIM Ilze Berzina (2281) ½ ½ WIM Ellen Hagesæther (2234)
8. WIM Tatjana Voronova (2242) ½ ½ WFM Silje Bjerke (2162)
9. WFM Viktorija Ni (2132) ½ ½ Torill Skytte (1971)
10. WFM Renate Praude (2131) 1 0 Yerazik Khachatourian (2044)
         
  Sweden 7½ 2½ England
1. GM Emanuel Berg (2583) 1 0 GM Gawain Jones (2562)
2. GM Tiger Hillarp-Persson (2535) 0 1 GM David Howell (2528)
3. GM Evgenij Agrest (2535) ½ ½ IM Simon Williams (2482)
4. GM Jonny Hector (2533) 1 0 IM Stephen Gordon (2501)
5. GM Pontus Carlsson (2501) ½ ½ GM Stewart Haslinger (2495)
6. GM Pia Cramling (2524) 1 0 IM Harriet Hunt (2457)
7. WIM Svetlana Agrest (2257) 1 0 WFM Sabrina Chevannes (2074)
8. WIM Christin Andersson (2194) ½ ½ Kanwal Bhatia (2054)
9. Inna Agrest (2168) 1 0 Sarah Hegarty (1974)
10. Ellinor Frisk (2127) 1 0 Amisha Parmar (1995)

At the moment of writing the second round, with Sweden-Norway and England-Latvia, is well under way.


Emanuel Berg (Sweden) - Gawain Jones (England) | Photo: Ole Valaker


Harriet Hunt (England) - Pia Cramling (Sweden) | Photo: Øivind Johansen


Evgeny Sveshnikov (Latvia) - Berge Østenstad (Norway) | Photo: Øivind Johansen


Ilze Berzina (Latvia) - Ellen Hagesæther (Norway) | Photo: Øivind Johansen

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Written by peter | Filed under Coverstory, League 

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