{"id":928,"date":"2017-12-18T01:29:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T15:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/?p=928"},"modified":"2018-01-17T16:32:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T06:32:35","slug":"8-disaster-australia-south-africa-3-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/2017\/12\/8-disaster-australia-south-africa-3-5-5\/","title":{"rendered":"World U16 Teams Round 8 disaster Australia v South Africa 0.5-3.5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nLike almost every tournament, individual and team, we had missed opportunities and lucky breaks. And like in almost every event, it is the final rounds that determine one’s performance. We got more points than we deserved against Mozambique in round 7 but returned the points in round 8. <\/div>\n
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\nEveryone is all smiles at the start.<\/div>\n
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\nThe very patient and supportive parents<\/div>\n
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\nMembers of the Malaysian team practising.<\/div>\n
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\nCoaching this team was rewarding, especially the evening postmortems. OUr preparation was limited because of the tight schedule and the fact the pairings only came out after 11pm. Also, not all players had many games to look at.<\/div>\n
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\nIt is not possible to sit for 4 hours watching, so I had a chance to stroll around and watch some of the other games. One of the highlights was the board one game in Iran – India Blue. Black to play.<\/div>\n
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\nIn our match, nothing went right. Hughston played a natural looking move in the opening that turned out to be a mistake (9.Rd1), followed by a tactical oversight two moves later. He fought on for a long time and was the last to finish, his opponent showed too much endgame class.<\/div>\n
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\nIsaac didn’t understand the urgency of playing e5 or c5 in the opening around move 8 and suffered from space deprivation for the rest of the game. I am partly to blame for that as I advised him to play this solid system without explaining it properly.<\/div>\n
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\nI thought we had salvaged a point on board three when I saw the handshake with Gordon having an extra piece. He had played an excellent game. To my horror, I soon realised that a draw had been agreed. Gordon was on the increment, had a stomach ache and couldn’t find a way to win so that explains it. When it rains…..<\/div>\n
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\nBrigitte Watkins played a great game only going astray late in the ending. I feel that if she had found the unnatural 22…Rfd8 with the idea of  Nf8-g6 black is doing well.<\/div>\n
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\nThe real disappointment, however, was that we got the bye in the last round. Oh well, win some, get the bye some \ud83d\ude41<\/div>\n
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\nNow just the closing ceremony to go and the bus is waiting…<\/div>\n

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Like almost every tournament, individual and team, we had missed opportunities and lucky breaks. And like in almost every event, it is the final rounds that determine one’s performance. We got more points than we deserved against Mozambique in round 7 but returned the points in round 8.  Everyone is all smiles at the start. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}