Yesterday I played (and won) my first game in Latvian Team Championship 2010. Strictly speaking this may not be called the first as I took part also in first match (this was the second), but my opponent did not arrive and I earned the point for my team with making only one move - 1.e4 and White won. :D Out team won with 5:0 then.
Latvian Team Championship 2010 is round robin tournament and takes part from April up to June and all teams (this year they are 10 - here you can see the list of them) should play their matches during this time period. Scoring system has became more "team like" - 2 points for team win (independently from result - they will become important only when teams have the same number of points) and 1 point for draw. Unlike all previous team championships, this one is ELO rated with 90+30 time control.
I play at the same team as in previous year, but to compare with previous year our team seems to be weaker, as 1) we don`t have IM Vitalijs Samolins - Latvian champion 2009 and the best scorer for our team last year 2) GM Evgeny Sveshnikov are unable to play all the matches - for example he did not play yesterday. Some of our new players (like Vladlens Shulmans, who was able to hammer GMs when he was in good form, when he played chess regulary) are not so bad, but most of them are almost retired from chess and dont play too often.
Yesterday we played with not the strongest team of Rīgas Šaha Skola (Riga Chess School) and absence of Evgeny Sveshnikov affected our result- 2,5:2,5 which was really unpleasant surprise. I won my game on 2nd board and Vladimirs Pankratovs (solid player with lack of practice) wom on 4th board, Vladimir Sveshnikov (1st board) lost to another FM Kristaps Krustkalns (which did not surprise me too much, though), our team captain Boleslavs Kilgasts (3rd board) lost to Gustavs Upmanis (obviously weaker player) and the most surpsising result for me was on 5th (women) board where our WFM Viktorija Ni could not win another obviously weaker opponent Elina Otikova. I hope in next weekend (when we will play 3 matches in Liepaja) our team will perform much better.
Here you can see my yesterday`s game:
Latvian Team Championship 2010 is round robin tournament and takes part from April up to June and all teams (this year they are 10 - here you can see the list of them) should play their matches during this time period. Scoring system has became more "team like" - 2 points for team win (independently from result - they will become important only when teams have the same number of points) and 1 point for draw. Unlike all previous team championships, this one is ELO rated with 90+30 time control.
I play at the same team as in previous year, but to compare with previous year our team seems to be weaker, as 1) we don`t have IM Vitalijs Samolins - Latvian champion 2009 and the best scorer for our team last year 2) GM Evgeny Sveshnikov are unable to play all the matches - for example he did not play yesterday. Some of our new players (like Vladlens Shulmans, who was able to hammer GMs when he was in good form, when he played chess regulary) are not so bad, but most of them are almost retired from chess and dont play too often.
Yesterday we played with not the strongest team of Rīgas Šaha Skola (Riga Chess School) and absence of Evgeny Sveshnikov affected our result- 2,5:2,5 which was really unpleasant surprise. I won my game on 2nd board and Vladimirs Pankratovs (solid player with lack of practice) wom on 4th board, Vladimir Sveshnikov (1st board) lost to another FM Kristaps Krustkalns (which did not surprise me too much, though), our team captain Boleslavs Kilgasts (3rd board) lost to Gustavs Upmanis (obviously weaker player) and the most surpsising result for me was on 5th (women) board where our WFM Viktorija Ni could not win another obviously weaker opponent Elina Otikova. I hope in next weekend (when we will play 3 matches in Liepaja) our team will perform much better.
Here you can see my yesterday`s game:
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