Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017
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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017
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...
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...
Tim Harding
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Author of 'Steinitz in London,' British Chess Literature to 1914', 'Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography', and 'Eminent Victorian Chess Players'
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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017
Board 8 could produce another 7/9.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...
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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017
Now drawn so just the seven listed above.LawrenceCooper wrote:Board 8 could produce another 7/9.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...
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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
FIDE report on Gawain winning Dubai
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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017
The Chessbase report is here:
http://en.chessbase.com/post/dubai-open ... jones-wins
http://en.chessbase.com/post/dubai-open ... jones-wins
The complexity of some of the lines in the annotations has to be seen to be believed.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.