Texas Tech Knight Raider GM Georg Meier defeated super GM Movsesian with Black to give Germany a 2-1 lead. This guarantees Germany a medal at the 2011 European Team Championship, perhaps gold if Gustafsson can hold against Sargissian. [Event...
ETCC round 7 matchups
Round 7 top team pairings No. SNo Team Team Pts. MP Res. : Res. MP Pts. Team Team SNo 1 7 BUL Bulgaria 15 10 : 10 15 Azerbaijan AZE 3 2 17 ROM Romania 15½ 10 : 9...
Upset galore
What if someone would have told you before round 4 at the European Team Championship that Spain will hold Azerbaijan while Bulgaria and Germany will crush Russia and Ukraine? Would you have believed it? Well, it did happen. Illescas...
Game of the day: Meier vs Eljanov
[Event “ETCC 2011”][Site “Greece”][Date “2011.11.06”][Round “4”][White “Meier, Georg”] Texas Tech Knight Raider[Black “Eljanov, Pavel”][Result “1-0”] 1.c4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.b3 Ne4 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.0–0 Qe7 8.Bb2 Nd7 9.Nc3 f5 10.Ne2 0–0 11.h4 b6 12.Nf4 Bb7...
3 possible winners going into the final round
Tuesday, October 25 @ 1 pm – Final round 10 GM Feller 2668 (8 pts) – GM Meier 2648 (14 pts)GM Le 2717 (14 pts) – GM Dominguez 2710 (15 pts)GM Shulman 2608 (7 pts) – GM Robson 2583...
Game of the day: Meier vs Robson
[Event “SPICE Cup 2011”][Site “Texas Tech University”][Date “2011.10.23”][Round “8”][White “Georg Meier”][Black “Ray Robson”][Result “1-0”][WhiteElo “2648”][BlackElo “2583”] 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. g3 Bg7 6. Bg2 Nb6 7. d3 Nc6 8. Be3...
Germany set for the European Team Championship
GM Arkadij Naiditsch Germany set for the European Team Championship German roster for the Open section of the European Team Chess Championship will be as follows: Arkadij Naiditsch, Daniel Fridman, Georg Meier, Jan Gustafsson and Rainer Buhmann. Captain is...
Knight Raiders having fun at first official team meeting
First meeting of the new semester for the 20+ members of the Texas Tech Knight Raiders Chess Team Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar