Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Tim Harding » Tue Apr 11, 2017 6:29 pm

It's a seven -way tie and the tiebreak rule is:

Points scored (obviously all the same)
Direct encounter (can't be relevant as I doubt they all played each other)
Buchholz without the lowest scoring opponent
Median Buchholz
Wins
Rating

Players involved in order showing on chess24 are Jones, Yilmaz, Vidit, Iturrizaga, Adly, Zhigalko, Rakhmanov.

It probably helps Gawain that his first round opponent finished with five and a half points.

I'll let somebody else work it out...
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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by LawrenceCooper » Tue Apr 11, 2017 6:39 pm

Tim Harding wrote:It's a seven -way tie and the tiebreak rule is:

Points scored (obviously all the same)
Direct encounter (can't be relevant as I doubt they all played each other)
Buchholz without the lowest scoring opponent
Median Buchholz
Wins
Rating

Players involved in order showing on chess24 are Jones, Yilmaz, Vidit, Iturrizaga, Adly, Zhigalko, Rakhmanov.

It probably helps Gawain that his first round opponent finished with five and a half points.

I'll let somebody else work it out...
Board 8 could produce another 7/9.

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by LawrenceCooper » Tue Apr 11, 2017 7:17 pm

LawrenceCooper wrote:
Tim Harding wrote:It's a seven -way tie and the tiebreak rule is:

Points scored (obviously all the same)
Direct encounter (can't be relevant as I doubt they all played each other)
Buchholz without the lowest scoring opponent
Median Buchholz
Wins
Rating

Players involved in order showing on chess24 are Jones, Yilmaz, Vidit, Iturrizaga, Adly, Zhigalko, Rakhmanov.

It probably helps Gawain that his first round opponent finished with five and a half points.

I'll let somebody else work it out...
Board 8 could produce another 7/9.
Now drawn so just the seven listed above.

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Wed Apr 12, 2017 9:23 am

Any news on who won?

http://chess-results.com/tnr275075.aspx ... =30&wi=821

Chess-results page shows Gawain as first.

Closing ceremony is today at 19:00 according to the event website.

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Chris Rice » Wed Apr 12, 2017 6:23 pm

Gawain and Sue certainly believe he's the back to back champion. https://twitter.com/WIM_Maroroa/status/ ... 4733903873

Incidentally Lorin finished well with a win in the last round to end up on 5½. Sue drew the last round to finish on 3½ and 38 points down, she'll get them back, no worries. Gurveen Kapoor got a default win in the last round against a 2027 Sri Lankan to finish on 4/9 gaining 49 points.

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Chris Rice » Thu Apr 13, 2017 7:27 am

Gawain tweeted "Dubai is evidently my lucky place! 7-way tie for 1st but my ties edged ahead and I get to take another beautiful trophy home."

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Mick Norris » Thu Apr 13, 2017 9:18 am

Well done Gawain; a good recovery to get back all but 5 of the rating points he lost in Sharjah
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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Chris Rice » Fri Apr 14, 2017 10:11 am

FIDE report on Gawain winning Dubai

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Sat Apr 15, 2017 10:32 pm

The Chessbase report is here:

http://en.chessbase.com/post/dubai-open ... jones-wins
Alexander Fier of Brazil who finished eighth in the tournament has annotated his final round game in wonderful depth that you just should not miss—the analysis is a work of grandmaster art.
The complexity of some of the lines in the annotations has to be seen to be believed.