FIDE Open London Chess Classic

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Nick Grey
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Re: FIDE Open London Chess Classic

Post by Nick Grey » Wed Nov 20, 2019 10:55 pm

It is appropriate to give this event a plug. The biggest and best chess festival in London.

I'm looking forward to 10 days of chess and chess socialising.

And taking an extra half day leave to drop into the London Chess Centre, buy a few items, say hello and get into chess relaxation from work mode.

I expect the entry list will massively go up after midnight tomorrow. And wishing all the organisers and large team of volunteers all the best.

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Re: FIDE Open London Chess Classic

Post by Roger de Coverly » Fri Nov 22, 2019 1:09 pm

Only a week to go.

Top seeds

Aravindh, Chithambaram Vr GM IND 2605 2605
Moussard, Jules GM FRA 2600 261 2600
Praggnanandhaa, R GM IND 2586 260 2586
Smirnov, Anton GM AUS 2573 2573
Girish, A. Koushik GM IND 2506 2506
Gordon, Stephen J GM ENG 2505 251 2505
Petrov, Martin IM BUL 2497 247 2497
Komarov, Dimitri GM UKR 2493 2493
Song, Raymond IM TPE 2468 2468
Flear, Glenn C GM ENG 2463 241 2463
Arkell, Keith C GM ENG 2445 242 2445
Hebden, Mark L GM ENG 2436 238 2436
Pert, Richard G IM ENG 2436 242 2436
Kirk, Ezra G IM ENG 2433 226 2433
Clarke, Brandon GI IM ENG 2431 2431
Cherniaev, Alexander GM RUS 2428 226 2428
Gschnitzer, Adrian FM GER 2422 228 2422
Saraci, Nderim IM KOS 2403 2403
Mirzoyan, David FM ARM 2388 235 2388
Percivaldi, Martin IM DEN 2384 2384
Vaishali, R WGM IND 2376 226 2376
Taylor, Adam C IM ENG 2371 230 2371

Presumably the absence of other top British names implies they have invites to the British Knock Out which is running in parallel to the Open alongside the GCT four.

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Re: FIDE Open London Chess Classic

Post by Alex Holowczak » Fri Nov 22, 2019 5:48 pm

Roger de Coverly wrote:
Fri Nov 22, 2019 1:09 pm
Only a week to go.

Top seeds

Aravindh, Chithambaram Vr GM IND 2605 2605
Moussard, Jules GM FRA 2600 261 2600
Praggnanandhaa, R GM IND 2586 260 2586
Smirnov, Anton GM AUS 2573 2573
Girish, A. Koushik GM IND 2506 2506
Gordon, Stephen J GM ENG 2505 251 2505
Petrov, Martin IM BUL 2497 247 2497
Komarov, Dimitri GM UKR 2493 2493
Song, Raymond IM TPE 2468 2468
Flear, Glenn C GM ENG 2463 241 2463
Arkell, Keith C GM ENG 2445 242 2445
Hebden, Mark L GM ENG 2436 238 2436
Pert, Richard G IM ENG 2436 242 2436
Kirk, Ezra G IM ENG 2433 226 2433
Clarke, Brandon GI IM ENG 2431 2431
Cherniaev, Alexander GM RUS 2428 226 2428
Gschnitzer, Adrian FM GER 2422 228 2422
Saraci, Nderim IM KOS 2403 2403
Mirzoyan, David FM ARM 2388 235 2388
Percivaldi, Martin IM DEN 2384 2384
Vaishali, R WGM IND 2376 226 2376
Taylor, Adam C IM ENG 2371 230 2371

Presumably the absence of other top British names implies they have invites to the British Knock Out which is running in parallel to the Open alongside the GCT four.
The entries list is a week old. The scheduled update today didn't happen because I was otherwise engaged with ECF things. Hopefully it will go up on Monday.

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Re: FIDE Open London Chess Classic

Post by Nick Grey » Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:05 am

All the Entries seem down on this stage last year but Alex thanks for the update and I'll leave the debates about rapidplay/ecf and standardplay/ecf to others. I am not expecting a 2300 plus opponent.

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Re: FIDE Open London Chess Classic

Post by Alex Holowczak » Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:46 pm

Nick Grey wrote:
Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:05 am
All the Entries seem down on this stage last year
That's correct. It was only to be expected given it was launched about 5 weeks later than last year.

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Re: FIDE Open London Chess Classic

Post by NickFaulks » Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:40 pm

Alex Holowczak wrote:
Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:46 pm
Nick Grey wrote:
Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:05 am
All the Entries seem down on this stage last year
That's correct. It was only to be expected given it was launched about 5 weeks later than last year.
Anecdotally, the fact that yet another train strike will make it difficult to get home is putting off some people.
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Re: FIDE Open London Chess Classic

Post by Nigel White » Fri Nov 29, 2019 10:54 pm

Alex Holowczak wrote:
Thu Oct 03, 2019 12:37 pm
Nigel White wrote:
Thu Oct 03, 2019 9:55 am
Alex Holowczak wrote:
Wed Oct 02, 2019 7:24 pm
The last year without registration, we had 20 defaults in Round 1. So we had to do something!
Last year in the U1600 Weekender (for which no registration was required) in the first round on the Friday night over a quarter of all the games were shown as defaulted - and this figure will exclude successful repairings. My perception is that most of these defaults were by those eligible for free entry.

Does this not suggest "something should be done" for the other tournaments? It is rather dispiriting to make the trek to Olympia for a 6:30pm start and then have to hang around for an hour to find out your opponent is not turning up.
There were some mitigating circumstances for the weekender in 2018; specifically trains to Olympia were cancelled. Large numbers of defaultees arrived between about 7:45 and 8:00 to at least let us know they arrived and were intending to play. But you are right that a number of those were the free entries.

During the week leading up to the Classic, we send out numerous reminders about registration for the Open. We end up sending about three email reminders, and if they fail we phone people. It's not unusual for me to arrive at Baker Street on the day before Round 1 and still have more than half the entries unregistered, even after an email sent maybe 2 days before... The net result of this though is that we only have 1 default in Round 1 over the last few years from memory, and that was caused by someone withdrawing even after they registered. We make every effort to avoid the problem in the FIDE Open.

We simply don't have the resources to do all that for every other tournament, no matter how desirable it might be to do so. The difference with those events is that at least in the non-titlenorm events, it doesn't risk hindering people's norm chances. But even in those events, we do send fishing emails a few days before welcoming them to the tournament, which we hope some people will reply to and let us know if they are not intending to play.
Unfortunately, there appeared to be a significant number of defaults again tonight in the weekend tournaments.

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Re: FIDE Open London Chess Classic

Post by NickFaulks » Fri Nov 29, 2019 11:21 pm

Nigel White wrote:
Fri Nov 29, 2019 10:54 pm
Unfortunately, there appeared to be a significant number of defaults again tonight in the weekend tournaments.
There was an incident at London Bridge.
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Re: FIDE Open London Chess Classic

Post by Nick Grey » Sat Nov 30, 2019 7:52 am

Trains delayed and slow on the way home last night. Let's see how slow today. Board 60 pairing in the FIDE Open for 2 forumites.

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Re: FIDE Open London Chess Classic

Post by Mick Norris » Sat Nov 30, 2019 10:47 am

round 1 results

Any reason why it was seed 5 v 23 on board 75?

Good win for Sheyras Royal

round 2 pairings
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Re: FIDE Open London Chess Classic

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Sat Nov 30, 2019 11:11 am

Mick Norris wrote:
Sat Nov 30, 2019 10:47 am
Any reason why it was seed 5 v 23 on board 75?
The normal reason: entries we didn't know about when we did the draw.

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Re: FIDE Open London Chess Classic

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Sat Nov 30, 2019 11:23 am

I did notice in round 1 that we were only 2 Elo points from Flear vs Flear!

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Re: FIDE Open London Chess Classic

Post by David Sedgwick » Sat Nov 30, 2019 2:08 pm

Kevin Thurlow wrote:
Sat Nov 30, 2019 11:23 am
I did notice in round 1 that we were only 2 Elo points from Flear vs Flear!
Malcolm Pein also noticed, or had it drawn to his attention. He mentioned the near miss in his opening remarks.

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Re: FIDE Open London Chess Classic

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Sat Nov 30, 2019 7:07 pm

And I see they achieved Bates vs Bates in round 2

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Re: FIDE Open London Chess Classic

Post by Keith Arkell » Sun Dec 01, 2019 10:29 am

David Sedgwick wrote:
Sat Nov 30, 2019 2:08 pm
Kevin Thurlow wrote:
Sat Nov 30, 2019 11:23 am
I did notice in round 1 that we were only 2 Elo points from Flear vs Flear!
Malcolm Pein also noticed, or had it drawn to his attention. He mentioned the near miss in his opening remarks.
Let me enrich this story further: In 2018 Glenn and Christine were again sitting next to each other in round one, and I was Black v Christine on both occasions! Furthermore, had we used the 1 Dec ratings this year, Glenn and I would have swapped seats.

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