2nd Cambridge International Open

[LawrenceCooper]

Black is trying to mate with bishop & knight on board 35.

Who is playing?

https://chess-results.com/PartieSuche.a ... id=5191537

[Ian Thompson]

Black is trying to mate with bishop & knight on board 35.

Who is playing?

Black may prefer not to be named. Looking at the moves I'm left wondering if he even knew which corner of the board he should be trying to drive the White king to.

[Reg Clucas]

Black is trying to mate with bishop & knight on board 35.

Who is playing?

Black may prefer not to be named. Looking at the moves I'm left wondering if he even knew which corner of the board he should be trying to drive the White king to.

One can't be too critical, given that a world champion has failed to win this ending.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

No comments on what is surely the upset of the round? Mickey Adams only drawing against Lorenzo Fava (2140)! To be fair, Fava did beat Mark Hebden in round 3.

EDIT: Looking up past results for 16-year-old Fava, which also include some wins over strong players, he is clearly much stronger than 2140!

[Matt Mackenzie]

Who is playing?

Black may prefer not to be named. Looking at the moves I'm left wondering if he even knew which corner of the board he should be trying to drive the White king to.

One can't be too critical, given that a world champion has failed to win this ending.

I presume you mean a women's WC?

For the male holder to mess it up would indeed be news (though some quite strong male GMs have also failed to win it)

[Leonard Barden]

Curiously the same K+B+N v K ending occurred in Round 3 in the game Lazarus v Saine. Black won.
https://chess-results.com/partieSuche.a ... 11519&rd=3

[Mick Norris]

round 6 pairings

Good to see Craig Hanley playing, he doesn't seem to have played for a while

[Roger de Coverly]

round 6 pairings

Acceleration of pairings has ended after five rounds, so floats excepted everyone plays someone of the same score.

[Jonathan Rogers]

So! Who thinks they can predict the winner?!

[Thomas Rendle]

I'll go for Fernandez and Tiviakov winning jointly, just ahead of Adams, Willow and Sonis.

[LawrenceCooper]

Black may prefer not to be named. Looking at the moves I'm left wondering if he even knew which corner of the board he should be trying to drive the White king to.

One can't be too critical, given that a world champion has failed to win this ending.

I presume you mean a women's WC?

For the male holder to mess it up would indeed be news (though some quite strong male GMs have also failed to win it)

I think that the sex of a GM is of less relevance than their rating.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

I did notice that the top seven boards(!!) were all drawn in round 5. Accelerated pairings were still apparently in effect for that round, so does that make it more or less surprising that all seven of these games were drawn, which would have been a rare occurrence anyway I think?

[LawrenceCooper]

I did notice that the top seven boards(!!) were all drawn in round 5. Accelerated pairings were still apparently in effect for that round, so does that make it more or less surprising that all seven of these games were drawn, which would have been a rare occurrence anyway I think?

Looking at the pairings there was only board 4 where I thought a draw wasn't the most likely result. By contrast, we have huge rating discrepancies on rating on boards 2 & 4 in round 6 albeit the 1696 is performing way above his rating so far.

[Mick Norris]

I'd say less surprising in the 2nd game of the day, and if black was higher rated or there wasn't much difference; you'd have to look through the games to see if there were chances missed

[J T Melsom]

Double round day and Bradford City v Wycombe Wanderers on Sky