2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

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2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

Post by Chris Rice » Sun Apr 02, 2017 7:33 pm

In Round 2 Jack beat GM Tiger Hillarp Persson https://live.chessbase.com/watch/Polar_ ... _Festival/ he is the co-leader with Mark Hebden and Daniel Abbas. Round 3 pairings

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Re: 2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:03 pm

JR's rating is only 2177?!?!
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Re: 2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

Post by LawrenceCooper » Sun Apr 02, 2017 8:20 pm

Matt Mackenzie wrote:JR's rating is only 2177?!?!
It does go up and down but hopefully he's on the way back up: https://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?event=405736

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Re: 2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

Post by Chris Rice » Mon Apr 03, 2017 12:48 pm

Jack beats Glen House in Rd 3 and may well end up being in the joint lead with Daniel Abbas who is currently much better against Mark Hebden.

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Re: 2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

Post by LawrenceCooper » Mon Apr 03, 2017 12:55 pm

Chris Rice wrote:Jack beats Glen House in Rd 3 and may well end up being in the joint lead with Daniel Abbas who is currently much better against Mark Hebden.
I glanced at the games earlier and saw that both Glenn and Jack had 1:22 left. A second later it became clear that Glenn had 1 minute 22 seconds whilst Jack had an 1 hour and 22 minutes :)

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Re: 2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Mon Apr 03, 2017 1:12 pm

Ah yes, Glenn is a terrific player but clock management has never been his strongest point ;)
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Re: 2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

Post by LawrenceCooper » Mon Apr 03, 2017 1:34 pm

Matt Mackenzie wrote:Ah yes, Glenn is a terrific player but clock management has never been his strongest point ;)
I think the clock times are more a reflection of Jack's speed than Glenn being slow.

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Re: 2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:20 pm

LawrenceCooper wrote:
Matt Mackenzie wrote:Ah yes, Glenn is a terrific player but clock management has never been his strongest point ;)
I think the clock times are more a reflection of Jack's speed than Glenn being slow.
Oh, I am aware of that as well :)
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Re: 2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

Post by Chris Rice » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:55 pm

Live stream from the venue of the Round 4 clash between Jack and Daniel Abbas. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/b43g92AWWaY

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Re: 2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

Post by LawrenceCooper » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:58 pm

Chris Rice wrote:Live stream from the venue of the Round 4 clash between Jack and Daniel Abbas. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/b43g92AWWaY
White seems to have a slight lead in development on board 3 :shock:

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Re: 2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

Post by Chris Rice » Mon Apr 03, 2017 5:56 pm

Jack's on fire. He won again, this time against Daniel Abbas to go to 4/4.

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Re: 2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

Post by Nick Burrows » Mon Apr 03, 2017 6:10 pm

Well played Jack!

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Re: 2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Mon Apr 03, 2017 6:16 pm

Life is good. It's a pity this tournament isn't a little bit stronger so that I would have GM norm chances, but I'm not complaining.

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Re: 2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

Post by LawrenceCooper » Mon Apr 03, 2017 6:21 pm

Nice king march from Heb to complete the mating attack.

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Re: 2017 Jersey Polar Capital Festival

Post by Mick Norris » Tue Apr 04, 2017 8:29 am

pairings

round 5

1 1 GM SPEELMAN Jon S 2511 3 4 IM RUDD Jack 2177 7
2 5 FM ABBAS Daniel 2285 3 3 GM HILLARP PERSSON Tiger 2503 2
3 4 IM MERRY Alan B 2412 3 3 GM HEBDEN Mark L 2494 3
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