Olympiad starts in Budapest tomorrow 9/10/24
Opening ceremony today - round one tomorrow 11 September.
Open team 3.5-.5 over Panama - paired against Singapore in Rd 2
Women 4-0 over Jordan - paired against Philippines in Rd 2
Round 2 - both US teams win 4-0
On to Round 3!
According to chess-results the women won by 3.5-0.5.
Oops. You are correct. Board 1 draw.
Round 3
Open 3.5 -.5 over Bulgaria - draw on board 4 by Robson
Women 3.5 -.5 over Canada - draw on board 1 byTokhirjonova
Rd 4 woman vs Netherlands. Open vs Ukraine
Open team wins silver medal
Womens team wins bronze medal after starting ranked 7th!
On the political side
Dave Hater reelected to Ethics and Disciplinary Commission
Allen Priest elected as chair of the Verification Commission
Motions to ease sanctions on Russia were defeated
Russian backed candidate for chair of EDC was defeated.
Board prizes
Carissa Yip wins board2 gold
Alice Lee board 4 silver
Levon Aronian board silver
What were the three tiebreak criteria listed. TB2 was obviously game points, but it wasn’t clear what TB1 and TB3 were.
TB1 is probably “Sonneborn-Berger for teams” which is what FIDE calls our USAT tie break. (Sum across matches of opponent’s match points x score vs that opponent). TB3 looks about the correct level to be Buchholz (what we would call Solkoff).
TB1 is FIDE’s Olympiad SB tiebreak for teams, number of game points scored against opponent multiplied by that opponent’s number of match points. However, it is modified by excluding the opponent who scored the lowest number of match points.
TB2 is total number of game points.
TB3 is sum of the match points of 10 best opponents, again excluding the lowest score.
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