English Chess Forum

Good luck to England juniors Daniel and Robert playing in Graz Open group A:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr181947. ... =30&wi=821

Event website:

http://www.chessopengraz.com/2016/en/

The final results for both Daniel & Robert:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr181947. ... =30&wi=821

Congratulations to both players!

John, for the benefit of those of us less familiar with junior chess, can you perhaps enlighten us as to why these performances are particularly noteworthy? Do they meet performance targets/objectives set by anybody with oversight for junior chess? To the uniformed these seem relatively modest gains in rating, so I'm assuming the international experience is also regarded as a positive. I'm not keen on discussing individual junior players, and I got my first FIDE rating with a 1/9 performance, but is 1.5/9 in the top section a better grounding than playing and probably scoring more heavily than in some of the other sections. I can think of plenty of U12s who would regard sitting on the bottom boards quite dispiriting, so hope this is an exception to that rule.

A 96-point rating gain is modest?

If we ignore the stupid k=40 issue, Daniel's performance was still +2.4 above his expected score; whereas Robert's performance was +0.5 above his

I considered anything over +1.0 to be a successful tournament so Daniel's performance relatively speaking is a standout performance, with Robert's respectable (I believe half a point either way is par score)

Jack / Alan

Apologies I misread and conceivably misunderstood one of the two performance rating gains, and as Alan rightly points out +2.4 is a decent performance.