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MSA Masters, Doha

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Mon Aug 21, 2017 7:46 pm

Five England-based players, including me and Keith Arkell, are playing in the MindSportsAcademy Masters in Doha at the moment.

See http://chess-results.com/tnr298214.aspx?lan=1 for the results so far.

I won this rather Arkellesque game this afternoon:


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Re: MSA Masters, Doha

Post by Brian Towers » Mon Aug 21, 2017 11:27 pm

IM Jack Rudd wrote:See http://chess-results.com/tnr298214.aspx?lan=1 for the results so far.
What bizarre results!

How normal is it to have one third of the players (16 out of 46) no show? Or have a player (Ali Almehaid) lose to a GM in the first round, not turn up for the next three rounds, leaving his opponents hanging, and not be kicked out of the tournament? Also unusual to have two players representing FIDE, although only one of them turned up to play.
Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.

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Re: MSA Masters, Doha

Post by Chris Rice » Tue Aug 22, 2017 9:05 am

IM Jack Rudd wrote:Five England-based players, including me and Keith Arkell, are playing in the MindSportsAcademy Masters in Doha at the moment.

See http://chess-results.com/tnr298214.aspx?lan=1 for the results so far.

I won this rather Arkellesque game this afternoon:

I very much liked Keith's comments on this game on FB: "That game definitely meets my approval. As I said when doing a piece in the 1980s on Ulf Andersson's style, for KIngpin, it's uncanny how often you end up with two connected central passed pawns when setting out to make favourable pawn exchanges from the start. 'Arkell's hierarchy of pawns' states that 'Unless one or both players castle Queenside, the pawns increase steadily in value from the a up to the f'."

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Re: MSA Masters, Doha

Post by LawrenceCooper » Tue Aug 22, 2017 11:37 am

Round 5 results here: http://chess-results.com/tnr298214.aspx ... d=5&wi=821 including wins for both Jack and Keith.

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Re: MSA Masters, Doha

Post by Chris Rice » Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:20 pm

MSA Masters Doha Convention Centre
Round 5 Board 2 2017.08.22
White: Rudd, Jack (2246)
Black: Fodor, Tamas (2502)

1-0

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Re: MSA Masters, Doha

Post by LawrenceCooper » Wed Aug 23, 2017 4:21 pm

Round 8 on 2017/08/24 at 1400
Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 5 GM Fodor Tamas Jr. 2502 5 6 GM Al-Sayed Mohammed 2508 4
2 1 GM Bologan Victor 2615 5 5½ IM Rudd Jack 2246 8
3 6 GM Arkell Keith C 2414 5 5 GM Kuzmin Alexey 2539 3
4 2 GM Hamdouchi Hicham 2578 5 4½ Salih Al Hor 1589 16

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Re: MSA Masters, Doha

Post by LawrenceCooper » Thu Aug 24, 2017 4:35 pm

Round 9 on 2017/08/25 at 1400
Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 1 GM Bologan Victor 2615 6 6 GM Hamdouchi Hicham 2578 2
2 4 GM Al-Sayed Mohammed 2508 6 5½ GM Arkell Keith C 2414 6
3 3 GM Kuzmin Alexey 2539 5½ 6 GM Fodor Tamas Jr. 2502 5
4 8 IM Rudd Jack 2246 5½ 4½ CM Al Khateeb Taher 2015 11
5 14 Ghanem Al Shamari 1619 4½ 5 Bin-Suhayl Ieysaa 2056 10

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Re: MSA Masters, Doha

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Fri Aug 25, 2017 4:57 pm

I was equal third; Keith was equal eighth.

http://chess-results.com/tnr298214.aspx ... t=4&wi=821

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Re: MSA Masters, Doha

Post by soheil_hooshdaran » Sat Aug 26, 2017 10:09 am

No PGN??

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Re: MSA Masters, Doha

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Sat Aug 26, 2017 10:11 am

No PGN, no. The tournament was, for whatever reason, not using duplicate scoresheets.

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Re: MSA Masters, Doha

Post by LawrenceCooper » Sat Aug 26, 2017 10:12 am

"Jack Rudd and Keith Arkell came equal first in the Mindsports Academy Exchange Chess tournament this morning. Behold the mighty Devonian Fossils!"

CHESS: Mindsports Academy held the WORLD'S BIGGEST Bughouse tournament here in Doha! There were 4 grand masters, and international master and lots of players having fun! Prize pool of $3000 has never been seen before in a bughouse tournament.

https://www.facebook.com/MSIAcademy/

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Re: MSA Masters, Doha

Post by Keith Arkell » Sat Aug 26, 2017 7:52 pm

Just a lazy copy and paste from my facebook wall:

'Finally the blitz, and so I was able to flex my muscles a bit: in a field which included 7 GMs, I was first = with 7.5/9'

Jack also had a chance to join Tamas Fodor and me but, sadly, lost in the last round.

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Post by David Sedgwick » Sun Aug 27, 2017 5:31 pm

IM Jack Rudd wrote:No PGN, no. The tournament was, for whatever reason, not using duplicate scoresheets.
That could have invalidated any title norms obtained.

Congratulations on a great result, Jack, but in the circumstances it is perhaps just as well that it wasn't a GM norm.

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Re: MSA Masters, Doha

Post by Tim Harding » Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:36 am

David Sedgwick wrote:
IM Jack Rudd wrote:No PGN, no. The tournament was, for whatever reason, not using duplicate scoresheets.
That could have invalidated any title norms obtained.

Congratulations on a great result, Jack, but in the circumstances it is perhaps just as well that it wasn't a GM norm.
Where in the title regulations does it say that title norm tournaments must preserve the scores of the games?

https://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html ... ew=article
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Re: MSA Masters, Doha

Post by Adam Raoof » Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:44 am

Tim Harding wrote:
David Sedgwick wrote:
IM Jack Rudd wrote:No PGN, no. The tournament was, for whatever reason, not using duplicate scoresheets.
That could have invalidated any title norms obtained.

Congratulations on a great result, Jack, but in the circumstances it is perhaps just as well that it wasn't a GM norm.
Where in the title regulations does it say that title norm tournaments must preserve the scores of the games?

https://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html ... ew=article
Not directly, I think - but FIDE expects all title norm events to submit a complete pgn, and there are lots of occasions (as I often realise too late) where a complete pgn enables you to construct a crosstable retrospectively to prove a title norm, or even just to prove the pairings were legitimate - or that the tournament actually took place! If someone obtained a norm in Doha and it was challenged, it might be an issue.
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