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The ongoing corona pandemic still makes it difficult to play over-the-board tournaments, and this year's French Blitz Team Championship also moved online, to the Playchess server, host of a number of individual and team tournaments.
The preliminaries of the French Blitz Team Championship were played on Saturday, the final will follow on the next weekend. The event attracted a number of grandmasters, and one of them was ChessBase author Christian Bauer, who scored 10½/12 and helped helped his team Nizza to qualify for the finals.
In the following nice game against "Nikam", aka GM Igor Efimov, Bauer won with a straightforward attack against the enemy king.
Strike first with the Scandinavian
The Scandinavian is a rarely employed opening on the hightest level und guides your opponent on much less familiar terrain than for example the Sicilian, French or any 1.e4 e5 system. After 1.e4 d5 Black fights for the initiative from move one.
| Rg. | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Tb1 | Tb2 | Tb3 |
| 1 | Nice | * | 13½ | 12 | 13½ | 39,0 | 22 | 0 |
| 2 | Monaco | 2½ | * | 7 | 12½ | 22,0 | 12 | 0 |
| 3 | Chartres | 4 | 9 | * | 7½ | 20,5 | 9 | 0 |
| 4 | Agen | 2½ | 3½ | 8½ | * | 14,5 | 5 | 0 |
| Rg. | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Wtg1 | Wtg2 | Wtg3 |
| 1 | Mulhouse | * | 7 | 12 | 11½ | 30,5 | 17 | 0 |
| 2 | Metz | 9 | * | 8½ | 9 | 26,5 | 12 | 0 |
| 3 | Lyon | 4 | 7½ | * | 8½ | 20,0 | 11 | 0 |
| 4 | Vandoeuvre | 4½ | 7 | 7½ | * | 19,0 | 8 | 0 |
