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11/09/2024 FIDE Chess Olympiad 2024 Round 1
The numbering of tables, as represented on Chess_results.com makes it evident that host nation Hungary was going to be playing on table 2 throughout (unless they went into the lead) with others following on in the usual Swiss pairing order. Thus England’s Open team, being seeded 8, was on table 9 in round 1, and England’s Women’s team, being seeded 15, was on table 16. Except for round 11, all rounds start at 2.00 BST.
England Open opponents, China Taipei, is the team of Taiwan (aka Republic of China) as opposed to mainland China (aka People’s Republic of China). After World War II, China hade various territories ceded back by Japan. Then, after the communist take‑over, Chiang Kai-Shek’s legitimate China government retreated to the island of Taiwan, where it has remained ever since, still not recognising the legitimacy of the communist regime on the mainland. Taipei is the capital city of Taiwan. One wonders, therefore, whether the pairing of China (PRC) with China Taipei (ROC) will be studiously avoided as was the pairing England v Germany in the 1939 Olympiad after World War II broken out during the event in Buenos Aires.
Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey, all UK nations or UK crown territories, have their teams. (“Ireland” was presumably the Irish Republic.) Here we are following three teams, England Open, England Women and Papua New Guinea Open, the latter featuring Rupert Jones as a player and having Jonathan Arnott as captain/coach.
On the “live” boards, board 1 in the England v Chinese Taipei did not spring to life, so either a player was absent or there was something in the nature of a loose connection. (Update: The next day, the score of a game became available via “pgn” link on chess_results,com, so it must have been a loose connection.)
England Open’s other two wins were as follows. Click on “play” to play through the game in question on screen in a new window.
England Women crashed home with little resistance. Papua New Guinea had a good result on board 2 (actually, it seems, the PNG player won by default, no game-score appearing later, but it looks good in the results), but Rupert Jones on board 3 was unable to refute the rating disparity. Here is Rupert’s game.
Rupert Jones is the one at the back, scratching his head.
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