European MV Renjus

Hello! The European Championship in Snooker will be held in St. Petersburg from 28.07.-2.08. The final tournament will feature 26 players from 6 countries, with 9 rounds played in the Swiss system. Estonians are represented by Tunnet Taimla, who recently became the world champion with the Estonian team at the team World Championship (in addition, the 2003 individual world champion, who performs in snooker under the name "golden"), Aivo Oll and Andry Purk. Andry defeated Björn Wallgren (Sweden) and Russian Konstantin Nikonov in the first rounds. Aivo was better than Marcus Eriksson (Sweden) and Vladimir Filinov. Both Estonians are sharing 1st-6th place after 2 rounds. Tunnet Taimla tied with Pavel Makarov (Russia) in the opening round and then defeated another Russian, Karen Sirategjan, now sharing 7th place. You can follow the tournament table yourself at http://renju.net/media/tourninfo.php?tournament_id=474

doesn't seem particularly exciting.. a bunch of Russians, a few Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks and then Estonians and Swedes on the side.irw

Blaa's ironic remark could be answered by saying that well, if you look at geography, then there were probably times in chess when representatives of almost only one country - the USSR - played at the top. In fact, of course, there is a problem (blaa, by the way, did not mention the Ukrainians), it is played practically only in Eastern and Central Europe (Hungarians, Czechs and Poles will also come from Europe to the Youth World Championship in Haapsalu, which starts on 3.08.) in addition to Sweden and Finland

Well, that's what I meant, the Czechs and Finns were present at the team event. But their absence this time is probably due to the fact that since they don't have any special opportunities anyway, they don't bother going through the hassle of visas and spending money. The results page is down. Did Estonia still win?

1 Aivo Oll Estonia Tallinn 181 201 121 9½ 51 101 31 2½ 41 8 46.50 40.75 2 Sergey Artemiev Russia Saint Petersburg 120 191 201 6½ 4½ 161 101 1½ 51 6½ 45.50 31.25 3 Tunnet Taimla Estonia Tallinn 22½ 251 71 50 191 131 10 91 101 6½ 43.00 27.75 4 Yuriy Tarannikov Russia Moscow 161 80 111 14½ 2½ 121 91 61 10 6 48.50 29.50 5 Alexandr Kadulin Russia Podyuga 241 71 101 31 10 90 6½ 141 20 5½ 49.50 27.25 6 Pavel Salnikov Russia Saint Petersburg 100 17½ 241 2½ 151 81 5½ 40 131 5½ 44.50 25.50 7 Stefan Karlsson Sweden Stockholm 21 50 30 17½ 20½ 111 131 121 9½ 5½ 42.00 23.75 8 Egor Serdyukov Russia Podyuga 231 41 90 13½ 120 60 201 191 141 5½ 40.50 23.25 9 Andry Purk Estonia Tallinn 151 141 81 1½ 100 51 40 30 7½ 5 51.00 26.75 10 Yulia Savrasova Russia Arkhangelsk 61 131 50 121 91 10 20 171 30 5 50.00 23.5 not bad