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First round today and first upset - Kamsky drew against a 2200 in a very strange game.

http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/l ... s_toma.htm

is the link.

Both Ivanchuk and Kamsky were held to draws, (or failed to win) .

The more bizarre episode was that according to the commentators, Shirov was crushed off the board. It appears though, that for all the high tech on display, the elementary precaution of ensuring that all the games were correctly labelled had not been followed and that what appeared to be Shirov getting destroyed by someone rated 500 points below him was in fact Navarra winning with ease.

Roger de Coverly wrote: The more bizarre episode was that according to the commentators, Shirov was crushed off the board. It appears though, that for all the high tech on display, the elementary precaution of ensuring that all the games were correctly labelled had not been followed and that what appeared to be Shirov getting destroyed by someone rated 500 points below him was in fact Navarra winning with ease.

Indeed. There was a communication error between the arbiting team and the live boards team, and boards 6 and 7 turned out to be the other way round from what the live boards team expected.

Just been to have a look at the the live games and yesterday's are still up for PC/Laptop!

John Moore wrote:Just been to have a look at the the live games and yesterday's are still up for PC/Laptop!

Very odd, I've had the round 2 games on from the start without any issues.

Good luck to Yang- Fang Zhou on board 18 today. I can remember Yang -Fang at age 8 beating me at the Richmond junior chess club with some wonderful attacking moves it was clear to me then what a fine player he was going to become. I have a lovely picture of Yang-Fang with his Richmond team mates his first medal it was.

Nice Peter - he is becoming a serious player

A Worst Move On The Board arose in Hackner-Neumanova today. Yes, black's already lost at that point, but 34...Kc6 puts it beyond all doubt.

[Event "Tradewise Gibratar Chess Festival 2013 -"] [Site "?"] [Date "2013.01.26"] [Round "5.110"] [White "Hackner, Oskar A"] [Black "Neumanova, Monika"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A00"] [WhiteElo "2015"] [BlackElo "1701"] [PlyCount "69"] [EventDate "2013.01.22"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. e3 Nbd7 7. Bd3 Be7 8. Qc2 h6 9. Bh4 O-O 10. Nge2 Re8 11. O-O Nh5 12. Bxe7 Qxe7 13. Rae1 Ndf6 14. h3 Ne4 15. Bxe4 dxe4 16. Rd1 Nf6 17. Ng3 Bd7 18. f3 exf3 19. Rxf3 Be6 20. Rdf1 c5 21. Qf2 Rad8 22. dxc5 Qxc5 23. Rxf6 gxf6 24. Nge4 Qb6 25. Nxf6+ Kh8 26. Qf4 Kg7 27. Nh5+ Kf8 28. Qxh6+ Ke7 29. Qg5+ Kd7 30. Nf6+ Kc8 31. Nxe8 Rxe8 32. Nb5 Bxa2 33. Rc1+ Kd7 34. Rd1+ Kc6 35. Rd6# 1-0

chessdom.com are reporting an issue or dispute from round 7.

http://www.chessdom.com/drama-in-gibral ... forfeited/

In the event, they "got away with it". Precedent from the European Championships would have had them defaulted.

Here's the game, Ivanchuk is white.

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bf4 Nc6 6.e3 a6 7.Rc1 Bf5 8.Nf3 e6 9.Qb3 Ra7 10.Ne5 Nxe5 11.Bxe5 Nd7 12.Bg3 Be7 13.Qd1 0-0 14.Bd3 1/2-1/2

On the same day one of the lower boards also agreed a draw before move 30, but was made to resume the game. The same thing happened in a game in this event last year.
Different rules for the top seeds, it seems.

John Wright wrote: Different rules for the top seeds, it seems.

While the brochure mentions a prohibition on draw agreements in under 30 moves, there isn't an explanation either there or on the website as to the procedure for agreeing a draw, or the penalties for contravention. For example, would you be allowed to offer the draw on the basis of a likely repetition without a position actually appearing three times? Someone was defaulted for doing this in the European Championship.

In the London Classic, with only 4 games at a time, the procedure was that they had to offer the draw to one of the arbiters, who would decide whether it could be conveyed to the opponent.

Nice game from Mickey today. 17 e5 must have felt good!

Is it only me !! - but why are the reports from John Saunders (which are excellent) so far behind. We are now on R9 but the report for R6 doesn't seem to have arrived

John Moore wrote:Is it only me !! - but why are the reports from John Saunders (which are excellent) so far behind. We are now on R9 but the report for R6 doesn't seem to have arrived

Just keep doing a refresh, eventually you will see round R7, then after more refreshes you will see R8, then after more refreshes you will see R9. Refresh is <Ctrl> and F5. You may have to do refresh multiple times, but eventually it will come through.