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European Team Championships - 7-18 Nov

  • 09-11-2013 12:27pm
    #1
    EnPassant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭


    The European Team Chess championships are on in Warsaw this week - the first round was yesterday. The website is here http://etcc2013.com/

    Ireland did not send a team, nor did Portugal, Moldova, Slovakia, Moldova, Bosnia, Albania, Macedonia, Estonia, Latvia or Luxembourg. Russia (Grischuk, Svidler, Andreikin, Morozevich, Tomashevsky) are the top seeds. Wales and Scotland are the lowest seeds by a long way. After losing 4-0 yesterday, Wales have to play Netherlands (lowest player 2618) today. Very surprising that there is no Slovakian team, seeing as they don't have far to travel.

    I cannot remember the last time that Ireland sent a team to this event. In theory it should be a great opportunity for norms, even if the team is in last place - of the 189 players, 142 are GMs, 31 are IMs, 8 are FMs and there are only 8 untitled players.

    I noticed that the board 1 on the Lithuanian Women's team, Viktorija Čmilytė, is higher-rated than anyone on the Lithuanian Open team. Judit Polgar is on the Hungarian open team. Both won yesterday.

    There are live games and commentary from 2pm Irish time every day this week. There are sure to be some longer games than Carlsen-Anand ...


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  • #2
    Sparks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    Seems even this level of sport doesn't escape the politics :(

    From ChessVibes:
    Live games controversy

    Before finishing this report, it cannot remain unmentioned that the organizers of the European Team Championship have taken the controversial decision not to allow online chess platforms to transmit the games live. The are only allowing Chessbase to transmit the games, but not others such as ICC or Chessbomb or Chess.com, who have recently started bringing live games as well. The reasoning behind this policy includes the following:
    It is widely recognized that chess games cannot be copyrighted, but the live transmission of games is under the copyright.

    However, this sentence is logically inconsistent. If chess games cannot be copyrighted (which is true), you cannot stop someone from showing them online "live". (And what is "live" in the first place? No delay? One second delay? Is a 30-second delay still live? Where to draw the line?)

    Besides, it is certainly not "widely recognized" that "the live transmission of games is under the copyright". Chessbase won the court case against the Bulgarian Chess Federation, who tried to prevent the Hamburg company from transmitting the Anand-Topalov World Championship match.

    Apparently there were some technical problems during the third round. This prompted Ilya Levitov, FIDE Vice President and Head of the Management Board of the Russian Chess Federation, to post the following on Facebook:
    Dear Polish chess federation! If you want to sell smth. try to make your product work. You are the first federation that suddenly blackmails other federations who want to do the usual broadcast from the tournaments, but your online doesn't even work! What does the "best chess manager" and ECU President think about that?


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