Summing Up The World Senior Team Championships

GERMAN club side Lasker were held to a 2-2 draw by compatriots Germany in the last round of the 65+ championship, but still finished first on 15 match points.

England 1 pounded Switzerland's Riehen 4-0 to reach 14pts, and actually scored half a game point more than the champions.

Slovakia took bronze with 13pts after drawing 2-2 with France, who, along with Italy, Germany and Israel, were one of four teams to finish on 11pts.

The team I was playing for, England 2, finished on 9pts, along with Finland 1 and North Macedonia, but our inferior game-point tiebreak meant we were placed 13th, although that is well above our seeding of 20th.

ENGLAND 2

Player                                       Score      Rating Performance  Elo Change

1. John M Quinn (2077)           +1=6-1                2172                    +19

2. Geoffrey H James (2082)     +2=3-2               2066                      -3

3. Brian Valentine (1907)          +0=2-5               1754                     -23.2

4. Tim Spanton (1850)              +2=2-4               1933                     +14

Res. Stewart Reuben (1912)    +4=0-2               1970                     +10.8

The United States crushed Poland 4-0 in the last round of the 50+ championship, finishing on 15 match points.

Italy, who were equal with the US on match points going into the last round, were held 2-2 by Montenegro, finishing on 14pts.

Unfortunately for the Italians, that meant they missed out on medals, thanks to game-point tiebreaks, as England 1 beat the Chinese women's team 4-0, and Iceland won 2.5-1.5 against England 2.

Those results catapulted England 2 from fourth to second, while Iceland won bronze.