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e2e4 Dublin International : 28 March - 1 April
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:01 pm
by Sean Hewitt
Live games are available at
www.e2e4.org.uk/live
Rounds start at 10am and 3pm each day.
Re: e2e4 Dublin International : 28 March - 1 April
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 10:06 am
by Sean Hewitt
Live games from round 2 at Dublin are underway with some English interest
Pairings round 2 (Friday, 29 March 2013)
Table White Flags Score Fed. Rating Black Flags Score Fed. Rating Result
1 GM Braun, Arik Germany 1.0 GER 2556 FM McMahon, Daire Rathmines 1.0 IRL 2150
2 Kosiorek, Marek Poland 1.0 POL 2366 GM Petrov, Marijan Bulgaria 1.0 BUL 2508
3 GM Gormally, Daniel W Cheddleton 1.0 ENG 2507 Redmond, John P. Atticus 1.0 IRL 2236
4 Vaarala, Eric Seden 1.0 SWE 2258 GM Arkell, Keith C 4NCL Cheddleton 1.0 ENG 2472
5 IM Hawkins, Jonathan 4NCL Cheddleton 1.0 ENG 2503 Aoustin, Arnaud CORK 1.0 FRA 2130
Re: e2e4 Dublin International : 28 March - 1 April
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 11:35 pm
by Christopher Kreuzer
Re: e2e4 Dublin International : 28 March - 1 April
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 1:15 am
by IM Jack Rudd
And what for norm purposes is a frustrating 2588 performance. He could have done with a last-round opponent 100 or so points higher-rated.
Re: e2e4 Dublin International : 28 March - 1 April
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:35 am
by Alex Holowczak
IM Jack Rudd wrote:He could have done with a last-round opponent 100 or so points higher-rated.
He could have had Arkell if Braun withdrew before the final round...
Re: e2e4 Dublin International : 28 March - 1 April
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 8:54 am
by Christopher Kreuzer
IM Jack Rudd wrote:
And what for norm purposes is a frustrating 2588 performance. He could have done with a last-round opponent 100 or so points higher-rated.
I suppose it doesn't help that the highest-rated player was 2556 (German GM Braun who beat Hawkins and also got 7/9), with the other GMs being 2472, 2508, and 2507. I had thought about asking at the start of the tournament if a GM norm was on the cards, and looking at the field had assumed not. You have to essentially play all the GMs and beat all of them, I think, with maybe a couple of draws. Braun's performance wasn't over 2600 either. An IM norm seems more likely, but maybe no-one got that either. Eric Vaarala of Sweden looks to have come closest (he played six titled players), but seems to have fallen short of the 2450 TPR requirement (2409). I presume a last round win would have done it for him? He lost, ironically enough, to Hawkins.