Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Chris Rice » Sat Apr 08, 2017 8:22 pm

The Round 7 pairings have come out and Gawain has made it on to Board 1 as White. The round I think starts tomorrow at 1.30pm (BST):

1 GM Jones Gawain C B 2671 5 5½ IM Santos Latasa Jaime 2565
2 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2670 5 5 GM Safarli Eltaj 2680
3 GM Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo 2671 5 5 IM Karthikeyan P. 2507
4 GM Sargissian Gabriel 2666 4½ 5 GM Yilmaz Mustafa 2614
39 IM D`costa Lorin A R 2390 3½ 3½ CM Aditya Mittal 2183
79 Saranya Y 1890 2 2 WIM Maroroa Sue 2148
101 Kapoor Gurveen 1666 1 ½ Hafenstein Andrea 1896

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Sun Apr 09, 2017 2:32 pm

It is difficult to calculate as he has played a lot of games, but how is Gawain's rating doing? Hope he can win tomorrow and be in contention in the last two rounds and maybe even win! (It is a 9-round tournament).

Reykjavik after this? A lot of chess!

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Chris Rice » Sun Apr 09, 2017 3:09 pm

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:It is difficult to calculate as he has played a lot of games, but how is Gawain's rating doing? Hope he can win tomorrow and be in contention in the last two rounds and maybe even win! (It is a 9-round tournament).

Reykjavik after this? A lot of chess!
I don't think his rating is moving too much. He lost 8.9 at Sharjah. Coming into today's round he was up 3.2 in Dubai so overall down 5-6 points on his Elo at the moment I guess with, as you say, lots of games to go in Dubai & Reykjavik before the next list comes out.

Update: Gawain won today so we can add more Elo to that 3.2

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by LawrenceCooper » Sun Apr 09, 2017 5:13 pm

A win for Gawain against the leader to leave him on 6/7 and temporary outright leader.

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Mick Norris » Sun Apr 09, 2017 6:05 pm

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:It is difficult to calculate as he has played a lot of games, but how is Gawain's rating doing? Hope he can win tomorrow and be in contention in the last two rounds and maybe even win! (It is a 9-round tournament).

Reykjavik after this? A lot of chess!
Actually, it isn't difficult :wink: , you go to 2700.com, type ENG in the white "enter name or country" box towards the top right, and it tells you that his live rating is 2666.8, which is 4.2 points down on his ELO after today's win

You'll also notice that Short has dropped below Sadler, albeit marginally, and there aren't really that many points between Howell as no 2 and Jones as no 5 although David has gained in the Bundesliga this weekend
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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Tim Harding » Sun Apr 09, 2017 7:22 pm

Vidit and Iturrizaga are also on 6/7.
Seven in the chasing group half a point behind.
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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Chris Rice » Sun Apr 09, 2017 7:36 pm

Round 8 pairings (Gurveen Kapoor won again beating an 1896 German in Round 7):
1 GM Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo 2671 6 6 GM Jones Gawain C B 2671
2 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2670 6 5½ GM Korobov Anton 2695
3 GM Oleksiyenko Mykhaylo 2643 5½ 5½ GM Areshchenko Alexander 2686
4 IM Santos Latasa Jaime 2565 5½ 5½ GM Amin Bassem 2663
5 GM Yilmaz Mustafa 2614 5½ 5½ GM Mareco Sandro 2655
19 GM Pantsulaia Levan 2589 4½ 4½ IM D`costa Lorin A R 2390
77 WIM Maroroa Sue 2148 2½ 2½ Shourya Jain 1879
93 Yalkanova Maya 1863 2 2 Kapoor Gurveen 1666

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Chris Rice » Mon Apr 10, 2017 9:10 am

Round 7 report and it appears that this event is at the old venue of the Dubai Chess and Culture Club this year and not the Marriot after all. No mention of any prayer break in the report so hopefully that's gone as Paul said earlier.

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by LawrenceCooper » Mon Apr 10, 2017 6:31 pm

Gawain drew in round 8 and is likely to be one of four players on 6.5/8 going into the last round.

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by LawrenceCooper » Mon Apr 10, 2017 9:46 pm

Pairings/Results
Round 9 on 2017/04/11 at 17:30
Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 8 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2670 6½ 6½ GM Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo 2671 6
2 7 GM Jones Gawain C B 2671 6½ 6½ GM Yilmaz Mustafa 2614 18
3 1 GM Korobov Anton 2695 6 6 GM Zhigalko Sergei 2639 17
4 2 GM Areshchenko Alexander 2686 6 6 GM Adly Ahmed 2597 22
5 10 GM Rakhmanov Aleksandr 2665 6 6 IM Santos Latasa Jaime 2565 31
6 11 GM Amin Bassem 2663 6 6 GM Idani Pouya 2573 29
7 24 GM Indjic Aleksandar 2589 6 6 GM Oleksiyenko Mykhaylo 2643 14
8 32 GM Fier Alexandr 2562 6 6 GM Zhang Zhong 2641 16

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Mon Apr 10, 2017 10:38 pm

"Main Prizes will be awarded based on Tie-Break and will not be shared"

Tie Break:

Direct encounter
Buchholz (lowest)
Buchholz (highest + lowest)
Great Number of victories

A win for Gawain would gain either $7,000 or $10,000 (USD).

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Chris Rice » Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:31 am

Just for completeness, Lorin is down 2.9 so hopefully with a win today will finish with a plus performance:

34 IM D`costa Lorin A R 2390 4½ 4½ Jayakumaar S 2229

Sue is down 30 points already so it's damage limitation today:

76 Srimathi R 1810 3 3 WIM Maroroa Sue 2148

A real success story coming out of Dubai is 12 year old Gurveen Kapoor who won again in Round 8 vs an 1863 player from Turkmenistan and is already 48.8 points up going into the last round. No doubt he'll be expecting a move up the Maidenhead B board order when he gets back:

84 Kapoor Gurveen 1666 3 3 FM Piyumantha M Sasith Nipun 2027

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Chris Rice » Tue Apr 11, 2017 5:34 pm

Another English success as Gawain ties first in Dubai. The four leaders on 6½ drew on the top two boards but there will be quite a few players on the winning score of 7/9 before the end of the round.

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Tue Apr 11, 2017 5:35 pm

Is it possible to calculate tie-breaks?

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Re: Dubai Open 3 to 11 April 2017

Post by Chris Rice » Tue Apr 11, 2017 5:47 pm

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Is it possible to calculate tie-breaks?
Not sure if its possible if the round isn't finished but I'm no expert on this. What I do know is that Gawain was leading on tie breaks at the end of Round 8 so hopefully should be first if they are doing it that way. http://chess-results.com/tnr269348.aspx ... =30&wi=821