Gibraltar

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Gibraltar

Post by John Moore » Tue Jan 22, 2013 4:56 pm

First round today and first upset - Kamsky drew against a 2200 in a very strange game.


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Re: Gibraltar

Post by Roger de Coverly » Wed Jan 23, 2013 1:17 am

Both Ivanchuk and Kamsky were held to draws, (or failed to win) .

The more bizarre episode was that according to the commentators, Shirov was crushed off the board. It appears though, that for all the high tech on display, the elementary precaution of ensuring that all the games were correctly labelled had not been followed and that what appeared to be Shirov getting destroyed by someone rated 500 points below him was in fact Navarra winning with ease.

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Re: Gibraltar

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:41 am

Roger de Coverly wrote: The more bizarre episode was that according to the commentators, Shirov was crushed off the board. It appears though, that for all the high tech on display, the elementary precaution of ensuring that all the games were correctly labelled had not been followed and that what appeared to be Shirov getting destroyed by someone rated 500 points below him was in fact Navarra winning with ease.
Indeed. There was a communication error between the arbiting team and the live boards team, and boards 6 and 7 turned out to be the other way round from what the live boards team expected.

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Re: Gibraltar

Post by John Moore » Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:24 pm

Just been to have a look at the the live games and yesterday's are still up for PC/Laptop!

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Re: Gibraltar

Post by LawrenceCooper » Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:47 pm

John Moore wrote:Just been to have a look at the the live games and yesterday's are still up for PC/Laptop!
Very odd, I've had the round 2 games on from the start without any issues.

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Re: Gibraltar

Post by Peter D Williams » Thu Jan 24, 2013 2:23 pm

Good luck to Yang- Fang Zhou on board 18 today. I can remember Yang -Fang at age 8 beating me at the Richmond junior chess club with some wonderful attacking moves it was clear to me then what a fine player he was going to become. I have a lovely picture of Yang-Fang with his Richmond team mates his first medal it was.
when you are successful many losers bark at you.

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Re: Gibraltar

Post by John Moore » Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:13 pm

Nice Peter - he is becoming a serious player

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Re: Gibraltar

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:06 pm

A Worst Move On The Board arose in Hackner-Neumanova today. Yes, black's already lost at that point, but 34...Kc6 puts it beyond all doubt.


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Re: Gibraltar

Post by Roger de Coverly » Tue Jan 29, 2013 12:11 pm

chessdom.com are reporting an issue or dispute from round 7.

http://www.chessdom.com/drama-in-gibral ... forfeited/

In the event, they "got away with it". Precedent from the European Championships would have had them defaulted.

Here's the game, Ivanchuk is white.


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Re: Gibraltar

Post by John Wright » Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:00 pm

On the same day one of the lower boards also agreed a draw before move 30, but was made to resume the game. The same thing happened in a game in this event last year.
Different rules for the top seeds, it seems.

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Re: Gibraltar

Post by Roger de Coverly » Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:49 pm

John Wright wrote: Different rules for the top seeds, it seems.
While the brochure mentions a prohibition on draw agreements in under 30 moves, there isn't an explanation either there or on the website as to the procedure for agreeing a draw, or the penalties for contravention. For example, would you be allowed to offer the draw on the basis of a likely repetition without a position actually appearing three times? Someone was defaulted for doing this in the European Championship.

In the London Classic, with only 4 games at a time, the procedure was that they had to offer the draw to one of the arbiters, who would decide whether it could be conveyed to the opponent.

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Re: Gibraltar

Post by Simon Brown » Wed Jan 30, 2013 5:40 pm

Nice game from Mickey today. 17 e5 must have felt good!

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Re: Gibraltar

Post by John Moore » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:11 pm

Is it only me !! - but why are the reports from John Saunders (which are excellent) so far behind. We are now on R9 but the report for R6 doesn't seem to have arrived

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Re: Gibraltar

Post by David Clayton » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:32 pm

John Moore wrote:Is it only me !! - but why are the reports from John Saunders (which are excellent) so far behind. We are now on R9 but the report for R6 doesn't seem to have arrived
Just keep doing a refresh, eventually you will see round R7, then after more refreshes you will see R8, then after more refreshes you will see R9. Refresh is <Ctrl> and F5. You may have to do refresh multiple times, but eventually it will come through.

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