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Phil Thomas · King Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 758

The following players will be representing Scotland at World Youth 2009 in Turkey November 11 to 23

U18 Boys Connor Woods and Daniel Maxwell
U16 Boys Andrew Newton
U14 Boys Ian McDonald
U12 Boys Ben He
U8 Boys Kai Pannwitz

U16 Girls Maryann McDonald
U14 Girls Ali Roy

Round 1 starts tomorrow.

This link should get you to the official web site

http://wycc2009.tsf.org.tr

Jacqui Thomas · King Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 340

Good luck to all our players & enjoy

AMcHarg · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:29 pm Post subject:

Good luck all, have fun! Cool

Clement Sreeves · Bishop Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 38

Best of luck to everyone in Turkey!

Mike Scott · King Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 676 Location: Edinburgh

Well done to the squad - some great results today!

Alan Tate · King Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 377 Location: Edinburgh

Round 2: Connor won, Ali won, and Kai won. Ian and Ben both got off the mark with draws. Some good positions were had by those that lost, so we can take encouragement from that. Team morale is high, and we're looking forward to improving in the results department as the tournament progresses.

Phil Thomas · King Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 758

Great set of Round 2 results.

Glad to see the players were not intimidated by their opponents grades

To save readers trawling through multiple pages today's opponents were graded as follows

Connor 2234
Daniel 2169
Andrew 2041
Ian 1932
Maryann 1878
Ben1807
Kai and Ali opponents were unrated

AMcHarg · Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:09 am Post subject:

Well done all, keep up the good work. Cool

Alan Tate · King Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 377 Location: Edinburgh

Kai won again, Ian won, and Ali won. Daniel drew....... Smile

Phil Thomas · King Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 758

To save readers trawling through multiple pages here are the grades of the Round 3 opponents.

Ali 1908
Connor 2360
Daniel 2105
Andrew 1787
Ian 1811
Maryann 2148
Ben1780
Kai's opponents was unrated

A word about gradings in the U8 section.

Only 15 of the 129 players have a Fide average of those grades is 1,598

5 of those graded players are on 3/3 average of their grades 1707
4 of those graded players are on 1/3 average of their grades is 1739

Overall the graded players have scored only 68.8% - without yet meeting one another.

I wonder how many of the wins by FIDE rated players were aided by the mindset of the ungraded player ??

Alan Tate · King Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 377 Location: Edinburgh

Internet was down all day for me. Ian won again, Ali drew, Ben drew, and Maryann drew. Andrew got off the mark against Carlos Bye Wink

Phil Thomas · King Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 758

Fantastic results by Ian moving onto a plus score despite being outgraded by an average of 307 points.

Ali Roy also has a plus score (2.5/4)

I know that all the players will be working extremely hard before and during their games.

Today there are two games, tomorrow is the rest day.

Which will be a well earned rest for all the squad.

Smile

Friseal · Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:08 am Post subject:

Looks like Ali has made the photo Gallery: Round 4 Photos
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If I have not seen as far as others it's because giants were standing on my shoulders.

Alan Tate · King Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 377 Location: Edinburgh

Round 5: Maryann and Daniel got their first wins, Ali drew.........

Mike Scott · King Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 676 Location: Edinburgh

Games from rds 1&2 are up - some nice games by our players. Great finish to Kai's rd2 game.