Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

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Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

Post by Carl Hibbard » Wed Jan 31, 2018 5:52 pm

JustinHorton wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2018 5:41 pm
David's has restarted and not to his advantage. Nakamura-Rapport currently showing no moves at all.
A bit embarrassing to lose all the boards :roll:
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Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

Post by JustinHorton » Wed Jan 31, 2018 5:55 pm

Oddly, David's has now restarted again and he's only slightly worse (as opposed to minus 54). Nakamura drew. Wang Hao should win and there's going to be a lot of joint leaders overnight.
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Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

Post by Carl Hibbard » Wed Jan 31, 2018 5:56 pm

Carl Hibbard wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2018 5:52 pm
JustinHorton wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2018 5:41 pm
David's has restarted and not to his advantage. Nakamura-Rapport currently showing no moves at all.
A bit embarrassing to lose all the boards :roll:
Back now it seems.
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Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

Post by LawrenceCooper » Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:00 pm

Jonathan Rogers wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2018 5:19 pm
Ah right, I was wondering who was actually winning the thing! I find it a difficult event to keep track of, with so many top names, and naturally this forum rather focuses on the procedures and transparency in claiming half point byes.

Naka still doing well, I presume? ?
He subsequently drew with Rapport so they join the group on 7/9. Gelfand-Gupta was a draw so the only additions to the 7/9 group would come from Howell-Vitiugov & Grandelius-Wang Hao.

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Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

Post by JustinHorton » Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:03 pm

You're not giving Oparin any chance then?

EDIT: and as I write, Oparian agrees a draw, so I think we'll take that as a "no".
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Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

Post by LawrenceCooper » Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:31 pm

JustinHorton wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:03 pm
You're not giving Oparin any chance then?

EDIT: and as I write, Oparian agrees a draw, so I think we'll take that as a "no".
I'd actually missed that he was on 6 :oops:

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Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

Post by Ian Thompson » Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:33 pm

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Wed Jan 31, 2018 11:20 am
I've given more than one half-point bye in my tournaments before, mostly for rather odd reasons. (Example: player takes a half-point bye in round 1, then turns up between the re-pairing time and the default time for round 2.)
If I turned up before the default time for a game and there was no opponent to play I'd expect to score 1 point.

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Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:52 pm

Ian Thompson wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:33 pm
IM Jack Rudd wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2018 11:20 am
I've given more than one half-point bye in my tournaments before, mostly for rather odd reasons. (Example: player takes a half-point bye in round 1, then turns up between the re-pairing time and the default time for round 2.)
If I turned up before the default time for a game and there was no opponent to play I'd expect to score 1 point.
It was explicitly part of the tournament conditions at the Yeovil Congress: re-pairings after half an hour, defaults after one hour; players who turned up after their opponents had been re-paired but before the default time would get half a point.

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Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

Post by JustinHorton » Wed Jan 31, 2018 7:10 pm

I think I overestimated Wang Hao's position but he still has a chance of being on the right side of an Arkell.
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Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

Post by LawrenceCooper » Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:57 pm

Round 10 on 2018/02/01 at 11.00
Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
1 1 GM Aronian Levon 2797 7 7 GM Nakamura Hikaru 2781 3
2 2 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2793 7 7 GM Rapport Richard 2700 12
3 6 GM Le Quang Liem 2737 6½ 7 GM Dubov Daniil 2694 15
4 7 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2732 6½ 6½ GM Antipov Mikhail Al. 2588 38
5 31 GM Gupta Abhijeet 2610 6½ 6½ GM Duda Jan-Krzysztof 2724 9
6 10 GM Wang Hao 2711 6½ 6½ GM Howell David W L 2682 16
7 11 GM Adams Michael 2709 6½ 6½ GM Grandelius Nils 2647 24
8 13 GM Cheparinov Ivan 2699 6½ 6½ GM Vocaturo Daniele 2609 32
9 33 GM Oparin Grigoriy 2607 6½ 6½ GM Gelfand Boris 2697 14
10 93 GM Kobo Ori 2477 6½ 6 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2726 8

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Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

Post by JustinHorton » Wed Jan 31, 2018 10:13 pm

Well what an interesting last round. My first reaction is that MVL looks well pjaced
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Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

Post by NickFaulks » Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:12 am

JustinHorton wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2018 10:13 pm
Well what an interesting last round. My first reaction is that MVL looks well placed
7 1/2 should be a very worthwhile score.
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Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

Post by LawrenceCooper » Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:23 am

NickFaulks wrote:
Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:12 am
JustinHorton wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2018 10:13 pm
Well what an interesting last round. My first reaction is that MVL looks well placed
7 1/2 should be a very worthwhile score.
Potentially twelve players could make it but I suspect a few would be removed from any play-off :)

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Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

Post by LawrenceCooper » Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:33 pm

JustinHorton wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2018 10:13 pm
Well what an interesting last round. My first reaction is that MVL looks well pjaced
A reasonable view, at least until his 8th move. From there he had to tread carefully to avoid being worse but black seemed happy to simplify and they've just clocked off having reached move 30.

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Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Festival 2018

Post by JustinHorton » Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:51 pm

Heh, so they have. Do we know who are likely to be the top four on tie-break if everybody ends up on 7.5? (Aronian or Dubov or even Nakamura may render this irrelevant, of course.)
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