WORLD RAPID & BLITZ CH - DOHA 2016

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Re: WORLD RAPID & BLITZ CH - DOHA 2016

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Fri Dec 30, 2016 8:31 pm

NickFaulks wrote:
Christopher Kreuzer wrote: The highest-placed non-GM was Israeli IM Alireza Firouzja
Iranian, bad mistake to make! Age 13 and clearly a real talent.
Oops. I need new glasses... Will go and correct that. :oops:

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Post by Ian Thompson » Fri Dec 30, 2016 8:53 pm

Andrew Bak wrote:His games were really bad - I'm not even sure he was a 100 ECF strength player. How did he qualify for the event?
IM Jack Rudd wrote:The usual answer is "local guy playing to make up the numbers" or "friend of the organizers" or something like that.
The event was open to anyone who was a national champion, as well as anyone over a certain rating. As Djibouti only has two rated players, the higher of whom is rated 1573, it's quite possible he is their national champion.

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Re: WORLD RAPID & BLITZ CH - DOHA 2016

Post by Peter Shaw » Fri Dec 30, 2016 8:56 pm

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Any good visual bits from the livestream footage?
The finish to Nakamura-Grischuk from round 19 is worth looking at. Pretty amusing, but maybe not for Nakamura!

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Post by Matt Fletcher » Fri Dec 30, 2016 8:59 pm

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Any good visual bits from the livestream footage?
Here's Karjakin dropping his Queen vs Nakamura in round 15
https://twitter.com/FollowChessApp/stat ... 5524546560

And a couple of good grabs from Olimpiu Urcan:

Jobava can't believe he lost from a winning position against Carlsen
https://twitter.com/OlimpiuUrcan/status ... 5529908224

A great piece of face-pulling from Nepo (I think he drew the game)
https://twitter.com/OlimpiuUrcan/status ... 8123536384

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Re: WORLD RAPID & BLITZ CH - DOHA 2016

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Fri Dec 30, 2016 9:32 pm

Hilarious, thanks for those. I saw the Karjakin one live. Nakamura-Grischuk from round 19 is a classic.

Going back to Karjakin-Nakamura, if Karjakin had played his king to f6 after the check, and taken the f7 pawn, would Naka have been able to mate with bishop and knight easily from that position? I know many players (especially the top GMs) in theory know that mate, but can they all do it with only seconds on the clock. I suppose they can build up time and then work it out/remember it if needed.

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Post by LawrenceCooper » Fri Dec 30, 2016 9:36 pm

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Hilarious, thanks for those. I saw the Karjakin one live. Nakamura-Grischuk from round 19 is a classic.

Going back to Karjakin-Nakamura, if Karjakin had played his king to f6 after the check, and taken the f7 pawn, would Naka have been able to mate with bishop and knight easily from that position? I know many players (especially the top GMs) in theory know that mate, but can they all do it with only seconds on the clock. I suppose they can build up time and then work it out/remember it if needed.
I suspect that Karjakin was probably that shocked that it may not have even occurred to him. That said the king is already fairly cut off and so the mate probably wouldn't be far away.

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Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Fri Dec 30, 2016 9:39 pm

I just tried to find Nakamura-Grischuk on the livestream and ended up watching bits of the prizegiving instead. It is quite funny to watch. Ivanchuk clearly doesn't like being showered with glitter and confetti at the end. :lol:

(Round 19 is from 2:57:30 on the 4 hour+ clip for rounds 13-21 of the Blitz. Amazing to watch some of that.)

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Post by Matt Fletcher » Fri Dec 30, 2016 9:46 pm

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:I just tried to find Nakamura-Grischuk on the livestream and ended up watching bits of the prizegiving instead. It is quite funny to watch. Ivanchuk clearly doesn't like being showered with glitter and confetti at the end. :lol:

(Round 19 is from 2:57:30 on the 4 hour+ clip for rounds 13-21 of the Blitz. Amazing to watch some of that.)
https://livestream.com/ChessCast/RapidB ... /145525778

The climax of Nakamura-Grischuk is from about 3:07

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Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Fri Dec 30, 2016 10:00 pm

Matt Fletcher wrote:
Christopher Kreuzer wrote:I just tried to find Nakamura-Grischuk on the livestream and ended up watching bits of the prizegiving instead. It is quite funny to watch. Ivanchuk clearly doesn't like being showered with glitter and confetti at the end. :lol:

(Round 19 is from 2:57:30 on the 4 hour+ clip for rounds 13-21 of the Blitz. Amazing to watch some of that.)
https://livestream.com/ChessCast/RapidB ... /145525778

The climax of Nakamura-Grischuk is from about 3:07
OMG, I couldn't stop laughing. The range of emotions Nakamura goes through in just a few seconds. :D

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Post by Chris Rice » Fri Dec 30, 2016 11:52 pm

Karjakin wins the World Rapid on tie-break after he and Carlsen got 16.5/21. Anna Muzychuk won the women's world blitz in addition to the rapid she already won. Report:

https://www.chess.com/news/view/karjaki ... paign=news

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Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Sat Dec 31, 2016 1:44 am

Chris Rice wrote:Karjakin wins the World Rapid on tie-break after he and Carlsen got 16.5/21. Anna Muzychuk won the women's world blitz in addition to the rapid she already won. Report:

https://www.chess.com/news/view/karjaki ... paign=news
Nice report. And a funny 50-move-rule incident. Great tweet from Karjakin.

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Post by Alex McFarlane » Sat Dec 31, 2016 7:30 am

I don't understand why the second claim was rejected. The last capture was on White's 92nd move. If the claim was made by Black on his 142nd move then both Black and White had made 50 moves without a capture or (non-existent) pawn move.

If this was nagging on Flores mind it is easy to see how he made the losing move.

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Post by NickFaulks » Sat Dec 31, 2016 7:54 am

Matt Fletcher wrote:And at the other end of the table, a fantastically consistent performance from Mohammed Ali Dima, scoring 0/15 in the Rapid and 0/21 in the Blitz.
On the women's side, the US representative Julia Sloan matched him in the rapid, her only point coming from a bye. She did score in the blitz, but still finished last.
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Post by LawrenceCooper » Sat Dec 31, 2016 8:57 am

Alex McFarlane wrote:I don't understand why the second claim was rejected. The last capture was on White's 92nd move. If the claim was made by Black on his 142nd move then both Black and White had made 50 moves without a capture or (non-existent) pawn move.

If this was nagging on Flores mind it is easy to see how he made the losing move.
There's a Facebook comment from Adly (which I can no longer find) with the final comment from him being a long the lines of "The arbiter and I were equally shocked when he played the move on the board and pressed his clock" which gave the impression that he was resigned to the draw claim being upheld if made correctly.

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Post by Alex McFarlane » Sat Dec 31, 2016 9:39 am

Hi Loz,

Thanks for that but my point was also that the second claim was made correctly. The count started with Black's 92 move so when the second claim was made BOTH players had completed 50 moves and not just White as the report stated.