World Junior 2015

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World Junior 2015

Post by LawrenceCooper » Tue Sep 01, 2015 9:35 pm

All the very best to Amy Hoare and Ezra Kirk a long way from home about to embark on a daunting 13 round schedule:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr185842.aspx?lan=1
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr185847.aspx?lan=1


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Re: World Junior 2015

Post by Peter D Williams » Wed Sep 02, 2015 3:36 pm

LawrenceCooper wrote:All the very best to Amy Hoare and Ezra Kirk a long way from home about to embark on a daunting 13 round schedule:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr185842.aspx?lan=1
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr185847.aspx?lan=1
Yes best of luck to Amy Hoare and Ezra Kirk both of them should learn a lot from this event. I remember Ezra and his dad before all of them went off to France.His dad often give me words of encouragement about Peter and his chess.

Why does the Junior director not post on here about our players ? or is it not allowed by the ECF?
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Re: World Junior 2015

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Re: World Junior 2015

Post by John McKenna » Thu Sep 03, 2015 11:59 pm

Two losses with Black, against 2296 & 2265 WFMs, and the second included a difficult-to-spot repetition of position -



So near, but just out of sight.

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Re: World Junior 2015

Post by LawrenceCooper » Fri Sep 04, 2015 3:57 pm

A win for Amy and a loss for Ezra today so both on 1/3.

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Re: World Junior 2015

Post by LawrenceCooper » Sat Sep 05, 2015 3:02 pm

Another win for Amy to reach 2/4 but Ezra lost and so is on 1/4. Nine rounds to go though so plenty of time to recover.

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Re: World Junior 2015

Post by LawrenceCooper » Sun Sep 06, 2015 2:51 pm

Round 5 proved to be a tough day with both Amy and Ezra losing. Amy is on 2/5 and Ezra remains on 1. Two rounds to go before the rest day and a further six after that.

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Re: World Junior 2015

Post by Mike Truran » Sun Sep 06, 2015 5:12 pm

I find it slightly terrifying that a player graded ECF 223 should be on 1/5. :shock: :? :(

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Re: World Junior 2015

Post by LawrenceCooper » Sun Sep 06, 2015 6:10 pm

Mike Truran wrote:I find it slightly terrifying that a player graded ECF 223 should be on 1/5. :shock: :? :(
I'm a bit taken aback to see he now plays a 2400 IM in round 6 :(

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Re: World Junior 2015

Post by NickFaulks » Sun Sep 06, 2015 10:07 pm

LawrenceCooper wrote: I'm a bit taken aback to see he now plays a 2400 IM in round 6 :(
I was severely criticised here for saying that FIDE Swiss pairings should be avoided where possible, but I think this is a good example of why.
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Re: World Junior 2015

Post by Brian Towers » Sun Sep 06, 2015 11:25 pm

NickFaulks wrote:
LawrenceCooper wrote: I'm a bit taken aback to see he now plays a 2400 IM in round 6 :(
I was severely criticised here for saying that FIDE Swiss pairings should be avoided where possible, but I think this is a good example of why.
Why?

What would the ECF pairing be? And why would it be better?

Let's not overlook the fact that the 2300/2400 players who have ended up at the wrong end of the pairings have done so by playing badly.
Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.

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Re: World Junior 2015

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Sun Sep 06, 2015 11:54 pm

The ECF pairing would actually be the same, coincidentally. Lootens has to be median-flipped into the bottom half to play Dias, as O'Mahoney and Sabirov have already played Dias. That leaves Kirk and Isaev as the only white-seeking top-half players, and Isaev has already played Johansson.

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Re: World Junior 2015

Post by Roger de Coverly » Mon Sep 07, 2015 12:00 am

IM Jack Rudd wrote:The ECF pairing would actually be the same, coincidentally.
It just shows the strength of the tournament and the standard that younger English players have to reach in order to be world competitive.

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Re: World Junior 2015

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Mon Sep 07, 2015 12:01 am

In general, a lot of pairing systems will look a bit wonky when applied to long tournaments with small score-groups.

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