Auteur: Marc Smith

Marc Smith visits the Semi-finals of the TampAlt The field for the last major Alt event of 2020, the TampAlt, began with 38 teams, but now just four remain. Although two of the surviving teams are all-European, all continents except Australasia and Antarctica are still represented. The winners of the Swiss, CLEMENT (Greece, Lebanon, Canada,…

Marc Smith visits the Quarter-finals of the TampAlt The field for the last major Alt of 2020, the TampAlt, began with 38 teams but, after four days of play, just eight remained. As the winners of the Swiss, CLEMENT (Greece, Lebanon, Canada, Egypt) began with a 10.1-IMP carryforward advantage over SELIGMAN (USA, England). Having finished…

Marc Smith visits the climax of the Swiss stage at the TampAlt Last week, we left the TampAlt at the midway point of the Swiss. The format was a 38-team, 10-match Swiss of 14-board matches, with the top eight teams advancing to the knockout stage at the end of the week. This week, we will…