Gretarsson-Shirov from Round 1 of the European Team Championship

It's an interesting game and a bit of a man-bites-dog story, so following a reader suggestion (third comment down) I've annotated the round 1 upset win by Hjorvar Steinn Gretarsson (an FM, not to be confused with GM Helgi Gretarsson) over the famous super-GM Alexei Shirov. Most of the sources for games from this event - including the official site(!) - failed to include the game, but an Icelandic site was understandably happy to supply it.

Have a look, here.

Comments

[Eyal]

"Most of the sources for games from this event - including the official site(!) - failed to include the game"

In the first two rounds, at least, the transmission of the games included for some reason only the first 9 group-boards out of a total of 19 (i.e., only 36 games out of 76). Apparently, all the games are *supposed* to be eventually included in http://euro2011.chessdom.com/etcc-2011-games-and-statistics (the link “PGN open section”) – as for the time of posting, it includes all 76 games of the first round, but still not those of the second.