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Gawain Jones on Twitter wrote:On 4/4 in Reykjavik after a really crazy game yesterday. Today top board and White against Caruana. Interesting to play someone in top 10
That's a great result! How many rounds is the tournament? (oh, hang on, he's playing Caruana today, I misread that and thought Gawain had beaten him).Paul Cooksey wrote:Gawain Jones on Twitter wrote:On 4/4 in Reykjavik after a really crazy game yesterday. Today top board and White against Caruana. Interesting to play someone in top 10
Definitely some edge for White now and Simon also looks to be doing wellPaul Cooksey wrote: Caruana responded very solidly to Gawain's g3 anti-sicilian - I can't decide if I think the resulting IQP is a little better for white or equal
Is there any chance of Adam getting his third and final GM norm from this tournament? I couldn't find any information on the official website about what category the tournament is or what scores are needed for norms.LawrenceCooper wrote:Round 6 is currently in progress with Gawain on 4.5/5 playing on board 4 and Adam Hunt (4/5) is playing on board 8
He currently has 4.5/6 against an average of 2345 (one player rounded up to 2200) so he needs to have played an average of at least 2380 for a score of 7/9 to suffice and he needs to play two more titled players (incl one GM). So 2.5/3 against an average of 2.5/3 or 2/3 against an average of 2612 roughly.Jon D'Souza-Eva wrote:Is there any chance of Adam getting his third and final GM norm from this tournament? I couldn't find any information on the official website about what category the tournament is or what scores are needed for norms.LawrenceCooper wrote:Round 6 is currently in progress with Gawain on 4.5/5 playing on board 4 and Adam Hunt (4/5) is playing on board 8
I'm guessing from the round 7 loss and the average rating of his opponents, that even a win for Adam Hunt won't be enough for a GM norm, or is there still a chance?LawrenceCooper wrote:http://live2.chess.is/2012/RvikOpen2012/r9/tfd.htm
Gawain Jones and Simon Williams are both white in the last round whilst Adam Hunt plays black. All three are on live at the above link.
That's correct. He needed 2.5/3 so the loss in round seven put him out of contention. Having two norms though the rating points are very important to him so I hope he can have a good result to finish with.Christopher Kreuzer wrote:I'm guessing from the round 7 loss and the average rating of his opponents, that even a win for Adam Hunt won't be enough for a GM norm, or is there still a chance?LawrenceCooper wrote:http://live2.chess.is/2012/RvikOpen2012/r9/tfd.htm
Gawain Jones and Simon Williams are both white in the last round whilst Adam Hunt plays black. All three are on live at the above link.