Wednesday 25 July 2007

All African Games - Chess Results

I had hoped to publish some up to date scores from this event earlier, but the web coverage of the Games (not just the chess) has been woeful. Nonetheless word did get out from Algeria about the tournament and Egypt has won the Gold!
Silver went to South Africa, narrowly ahead of Zambia.
Full match results and crosstable are here, courtesy of the Chess Drum. There is also a discussion about the event on their blog.
From looking at the results it seemed that the Ugandan chess team didn't make it after all, which probably accounts for the bye. Also the strategy of the Kenyan team to put their strongest players on the bottom boards seems neither to have helped the team, nor their players medal chances. As yet I haven't seen reports of any medals going to Kenya from the chess, although the individual medal results are still incomplete.

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