August 1, 2014 / Chess

Australian Olympiad Photos #1

My camera and I have reached some sort of peacefire, which I’m immediately taking advantage of in order to upload a few quick snaps. Helsingør (Denmark) and Oslo to date. Enjoy!

Tournament winner, Chinese GM Bu Xiangzhi — The playing ‘pit’. In the foreground: top-seed, Ukrainian GM Moiseenko

Tournament winner, Chinese GM Bu Xiangzhi

Gawain and Tiger analysing their final-round game in the Danish sunshine

Gawain also won the unofficial nightly pool tournaments.

2013-07-28 15.34.24 — Junta and Anton with their norms; Moulthun (middle, refusing to look at the camera) with his prize money.

2013-07-30 13.31.41 — Manuel and Anton join me for a selfie outside Oslo’s Tim Wendelboe cafe, apparently serving the world’s number one coffee

We'll make hipsters of them yet (captain Manuel and know-it-all Anton) — We’ll make hipsters of them yet (captain Manuel and know-it-all Anton)

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Miffy says:

August 6, 2014 at 6:29 pm

Manuel looks like one of those dudes in Kraftwerk.
Bahn,bahn,bahn auf der autobahn.
Brian Thomas says:

August 2, 2014 at 12:04 pm

Best of luck David to you and the rest of the team

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