Graz Open 12th to 19th February 2016

[John Higgs]

Good luck to England juniors Daniel and Robert playing in Graz Open group A:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr181947. ... =30&wi=821

Event website:

http://www.chessopengraz.com/2016/en/

[John Higgs]

The final results for both Daniel & Robert:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr181947. ... =30&wi=821

Congratulations to both players!

[J T Melsom]

John, for the benefit of those of us less familiar with junior chess, can you perhaps enlighten us as to why these performances are particularly noteworthy? Do they meet performance targets/objectives set by anybody with oversight for junior chess? To the uniformed these seem relatively modest gains in rating, so I'm assuming the international experience is also regarded as a positive. I'm not keen on discussing individual junior players, and I got my first FIDE rating with a 1/9 performance, but is 1.5/9 in the top section a better grounding than playing and probably scoring more heavily than in some of the other sections. I can think of plenty of U12s who would regard sitting on the bottom boards quite dispiriting, so hope this is an exception to that rule.

[IM Jack Rudd]

A 96-point rating gain is modest?

[Alan Walton]

If we ignore the stupid k=40 issue, Daniel's performance was still +2.4 above his expected score; whereas Robert's performance was +0.5 above his

I considered anything over +1.0 to be a successful tournament so Daniel's performance relatively speaking is a standout performance, with Robert's respectable (I believe half a point either way is par score)

[J T Melsom]

Jack / Alan

Apologies I misread and conceivably misunderstood one of the two performance rating gains, and as Alan rightly points out +2.4 is a decent performance.