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<\/a><\/p>\nOur players now smelling blood and knowing that a win earns them another shot against top players, the guys spanked Seychelles 4-nil. The girls fought hard against Japan with the advantage going back and forth and back and forth. In the end Japan escaped with a draw. Bear in mind though that the only other time we played Japan, T&T lost!<\/p>\n
Statistically, what does this mean for the ladies of T&T? In the history of women’s Olympiad, Trinidad’s best performances have been:<\/p>\n
In 2006 we got 3 team wins & 2 team draws (33.3% of the total possible points)<\/p>\n
In 1984 and 3 team wins and 1 team draw (34.6% of the total possible points)<\/p>\n
In 1986 (with our strongest ever women’s team) we got 2 team wins and 2 team draws (38.5% of the total possible points)<\/p>\n
So far after 3 rounds, our team has scored 1 team win and 1 team draw (54.16% of the possible points after 3 rounds). More importantly the girls have earned the right to play stronger players which is a very big deal.<\/p>\n
In athletics one can improve by training and competing against the clock, but in chess, training alone is not enough; one needs hundreds of games against world class players in order to build up ratings and skills. Unfortunately T&T and indeed Caribbean countries suffer from limited opportunities to play world class players, so an Olympiad campaign is more valuable the more opportunities we get to engage top class players.<\/p>\n
Go T&T Go!!!<\/p>\n
Tune in later to find out who we play next!!<\/p>\n
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Our National Olympiad teams climbed up the ladder of success yesterday as the ladies hammered Palau 4-0 whilst the men downed the Bhutanese team 3.5 – 05. This performance earned the ladies a round 3 match against Japan and earned the men a match against Seychelles. Our players now smelling blood and knowing that a win earns themRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-latest-in-the-subzonal","category-international-tournaments","category-news-and-events"],"better_featured_image":null,"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}