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Re: 11th 4NCL FIDE Rated Congress

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:03 pm
by LawrenceCooper
Jonathan Rogers wrote:
Jonathan Rogers wrote:Ahem. One more player can make 3.5/4, and Freddie Hand may well be on course to do it.
Not now, it seems. Some of the lower rated players on high boards have not quite handled the pressure today and have blown some good positions. (Generally though, Hand has made a very good impression this weekend)
Trent-Hand showing as 0-1 on both the live games and chess-results.

Re: 11th 4NCL FIDE Rated Congress

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:08 pm
by LawrenceCooper
Round 5 on 2016/11/06 at 1500
Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 6 IM Fernandez Daniel H 2450 3½ 3½ Hand Freddie 2103 25
2 1 GM Pert Nicholas 2566 3½ 3 GM Hebden Mark L 2491 2
3 5 GM Arkell Keith C 2450 3 3 Clarke Brandon Gi 2288 15
4 12 FM Jackson James P 2311 3 3 Jones Steven A 2215 18

Re: 11th 4NCL FIDE Rated Congress

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:13 pm
by Leonard Barden
LawrenceCooper wrote:
Jonathan Rogers wrote:
Jonathan Rogers wrote:Ahem. One more player can make 3.5/4, and Freddie Hand may well be on course to do it.
Not now, it seems. Some of the lower rated players on high boards have not quite handled the pressure today and have blown some good positions. (Generally though, Hand has made a very good impression this weekend)
Trent-Hand showing as 0-1 on both the live games and chess-results.
The final position is probably winning for White, so presumably Trent overstepped (all moves in 90 mins, plus 30 secs per move increment from move 1)

Re: 11th 4NCL FIDE Rated Congress

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:25 pm
by Jonathan Rogers
Leonard Barden wrote:
LawrenceCooper wrote:
Jonathan Rogers wrote:
Not now, it seems. Some of the lower rated players on high boards have not quite handled the pressure today and have blown some good positions. (Generally though, Hand has made a very good impression this weekend)
Trent-Hand showing as 0-1 on both the live games and chess-results.
The final position is probably winning for White, so presumably Trent overstepped (all moves in 90 mins, plus 30 secs per move increment from move 1)
Final position looks totally won for White - White king coming to c6 very soon - but after all this time waiting for the result to be "corrected", and seeing the next round pairings, it must indeed be a loss on time.

Wow! Shades of Gormally v Radanovic at Hastings a few years ago ...

Pressure on Pert to beat Hebden now! And the possibility of a multiple pile up, at least for second place, on 4/5 if he doesn't.

Re: 11th 4NCL FIDE Rated Congress

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:27 pm
by David Sedgwick
Jonathan Rogers wrote:Final position looks totally won for White - White king coming to c6 very soon - but after all this time waiting for the result to be "corrected", and seeing the next round pairings, it must indeed be a loss on time.

Wow! Shades of Gormally v Radanovic at Hastings a few years ago ...

Pressure on Pert to beat Hebden now! And the possibility of a multiple pile up, at least for second place, on 4/5 if he doesn't.
The pairings also indicate that Trent has withdrawn.

Re: 11th 4NCL FIDE Rated Congress

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:27 pm
by David Sedgwick
Graham Borrowdale wrote:Forgive me asking, but have the rest of the qualifiers or invitees to the British Knockout Championship been announced?
Rather to my surprise, it seems that they haven't, so I'd better not divulge them. I imagine that there will be a press release in a few days giving the players and the draw.
Graham Borrowdale wrote:My thought with the qualifying places was whether any of the participants at this congress had either already been selected or might reasonably expect to be selected or invited.
That I can answer and the answer is no.

None of the six invitees are playing at the 4NCL Congress. Unless anyone withdraws, only the two who qualify will get to play at the British Knockout Championship itself.

Re: 11th 4NCL FIDE Rated Congress

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:32 pm
by LawrenceCooper
Jonathan Rogers wrote:Pressure on Pert to beat Hebden now! And the possibility of a multiple pile up, at least for second place, on 4/5 if he doesn't.
I was expecting a draw to be enough for Pert and that the pressure was on Heb having to try to beat Nick with black.

Re: 11th 4NCL FIDE Rated Congress

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:33 pm
by Richard Bates
Jonathan Rogers wrote: Pressure on Pert to beat Hebden now! And the possibility of a multiple pile up, at least for second place, on 4/5 if he doesn't.
Nick just needs a draw, doesn't he?

Re: 11th 4NCL FIDE Rated Congress

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:35 pm
by Richard Bates
I think Fernandez and Pert both need a draw. If Fernandez draws and Pert loses then Hebden and Hands are tied on progressive scores, so it goes to sum of opponents ratings, probably favours Hebden, but haven't checked. So Hands would need to win.

If Fernandez and Hebden win then they take the places.

Re: 11th 4NCL FIDE Rated Congress

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:40 pm
by Jonathan Rogers
So it seems. I was wondering whether he (Pert) would finish ahead of Hand on tiebreak if top board was a draw. But I guess that Hand would lose out on sum of progressive, slightly unfairly one might think, since he had to play a strong player much earlier than Nick did. Though given how he won in round four, he would also be rather lucky to be in a tiebreak at all.

Ok, both Hand and Hebden need to pull off wins with Black then ....

(written before I saw Richard's mail. I haven't checked Hand v Hebden either)

Re: 11th 4NCL FIDE Rated Congress

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 2:43 pm
by Richard Bates
Jonathan Rogers wrote:So it seems. I was wondering whether he (Pert) would finish ahead of Hand on tiebreak if top board was a draw. But I guess that Hand would lose out on sum of progressive, slightly unfairly one might think, since he had to play a strong player much earlier than Nick did. Though given how he won in round four, he would also be rather lucky to be in a tiebreak at all.

Ok, both Hand and Hebden need to pull off wins with Black then ....

(written before I saw Richard's mail. I haven't checked Hand v Hebden either)
Hebden has indeed got a higher average rating than Hands

Re: 11th 4NCL FIDE Rated Congress

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 3:18 pm
by John Moore
Live games don't seem to have started yet - at least not on my PC.

Re: 11th 4NCL FIDE Rated Congress

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 3:28 pm
by Mike Truran
Matt Carr tells me they've all packed up - he's working on it.

Re: 11th 4NCL FIDE Rated Congress

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 3:29 pm
by John Moore
Thanks for the update, Mike.

Re: 11th 4NCL FIDE Rated Congress

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2016 3:34 pm
by John Moore
Signs of life on the top two boards!