Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 2015
-
- Posts: 1260
- Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:43 pm
- Location: Somerset
Re: Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 201
I'm going to guess board 4 might not be the longest game today.
-
- Posts: 8806
- Joined: Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:34 am
- Location: London
Re: Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 201
Pleased to see Adam Hunt in the, er, hunt, for that final GM norm. He has White today, so hope he can get the win that would make things easier in the last round.
-
- Posts: 3417
- Joined: Thu Nov 08, 2012 5:17 am
Re: Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 201
Correct! Just 12 moves were played.benedgell wrote:I'm going to guess board 4 might not be the longest game today.
-
- Posts: 2226
- Joined: Wed May 14, 2008 6:33 pm
Re: Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 201
Vakhidov clearly not a fan of Fred Reinfeld - only playing with the king side pieces. Looks like Zhao moves to 7.5. But now, no doubt, someone running a Komodo (is that really an engine) on Deep Whatever will tell me Black is OK.
Re: Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 201
Nc3-b5-a3-c4-e5xf7. Love it.
Re: Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 201
41. Bc5!! lovely move by James Jackson
-
- Posts: 1356
- Joined: Tue Sep 11, 2012 10:52 am
Re: Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 201
Richard Britton made up for yesterdays unfortunate loss with a nice checkmate today.
-
- Posts: 74
- Joined: Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:31 pm
- Location: Cloud Nine
Re: Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 201
Amazing save by White in that game.JustinHadi wrote:41. Bc5!! lovely move by James Jackson
http://www.horshamchessclub.org.uk - ECF Club of the Year 2010
Re: Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 201
Hmm I just logged on and see Hackner - Eames still going.
I seems to recall from an endgame book I read recently that the winning method is counter intuitive - stick the Q on g3 and bring the King down next to it. Or is that nonsense?
I seems to recall from an endgame book I read recently that the winning method is counter intuitive - stick the Q on g3 and bring the King down next to it. Or is that nonsense?
-
- Posts: 8806
- Joined: Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:34 am
- Location: London
Re: Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 201
Now on move 125!
10 moves until the 50-move draw rule applies.
Hang on. Has Black resigned? It looks lost now? No clock time showing for Black.
EDIT: Yeah, Hackner won. That will teach me to assume the live boards are updated when the last game finishes. I thought that game was still going...
10 moves until the 50-move draw rule applies.
Hang on. Has Black resigned? It looks lost now? No clock time showing for Black.
EDIT: Yeah, Hackner won. That will teach me to assume the live boards are updated when the last game finishes. I thought that game was still going...
-
- Posts: 287
- Joined: Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:54 pm
Re: Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 201
I had assumed it was drawn under the 50 move rule with the position left as it was, but the results page gives 1-0, so it looks like Bob either ran out of time or assumed that Oskar had eventually found the right winning plan. The ending had for a long time been a theoretical win, but it's hard to convert these things after hours of concentration. As Black, I would certainly have played on a little longer with something like 125...Ka7 and made White demonstrate he had found the right way to win, particularly as Oskar had been shuffling for a long time prior to getting that final position.Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Now on move 125!
-
- Posts: 21301
- Joined: Tue Apr 15, 2008 2:51 pm
Re: Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 201
If you check the chessbomb site, the engine there will demonstrate the winning plan. It involves a promotion and thus a pawn move with three moves to spare. The engine has a sense of humour and under-promotes to a Bishop in the critical position (white to move).Martin Benjamin wrote: I had assumed it was drawn under the 50 move rule with the position left as it was, but the results page gives 1-0, so it looks like Bob either ran out of time or assumed that Oskar had eventually found the right winning plan.
-
- Posts: 3417
- Joined: Thu Nov 08, 2012 5:17 am
Re: Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 201
So we go into the final round with a Brazilian the only person between Jun Zhao and an outright Chinese victory. Will Jun Zhao be afraid? Will Fier get the better of him? (Sorry, couldn't resist):
1 GM Fier, Alexandr 6.5 BRA 2592 GM Zhao, Jun 7.5 CHN 2585
2 GM Mista, Aleksander 6.0 POL 2614 GM Edouard, Romain 6.0 FRA 2659
3 GM Lagarde, Maxime 6.0 FRA 2576 GM Arkell, Keith C 6.0 ENG 2489
4 GM Hebden, Mark L 5.5 ENG 2523 IM Kjartansson, Gudmundur 6.0 ISL 2451
5 GM Rodshtein, Maxim 5.5 ISR 2676 GM Gormally, Daniel W 5.5 ENG 2499
6 GM Bogner, Sebastian 5.5 SUI 2586 GM Flear, Glenn C 5.5 ENG 2460
7 GM Sengupta, Deep 5.5 IND 2566 IM Gledura, Benjamin 5.5 HUN 2450
8 GM Hawkins, Jonathan 5.5 ENG 2552 IM Galyas, Miklos 5.5 HUN 2428
9 GM Vakhidov, Jahongir 5.5 UZB 2502 FM Kirk, Ezra 5.0 ENG 2308
Live games http://www.hastingschess.com/live-games-1415-ix/
1 GM Fier, Alexandr 6.5 BRA 2592 GM Zhao, Jun 7.5 CHN 2585
2 GM Mista, Aleksander 6.0 POL 2614 GM Edouard, Romain 6.0 FRA 2659
3 GM Lagarde, Maxime 6.0 FRA 2576 GM Arkell, Keith C 6.0 ENG 2489
4 GM Hebden, Mark L 5.5 ENG 2523 IM Kjartansson, Gudmundur 6.0 ISL 2451
5 GM Rodshtein, Maxim 5.5 ISR 2676 GM Gormally, Daniel W 5.5 ENG 2499
6 GM Bogner, Sebastian 5.5 SUI 2586 GM Flear, Glenn C 5.5 ENG 2460
7 GM Sengupta, Deep 5.5 IND 2566 IM Gledura, Benjamin 5.5 HUN 2450
8 GM Hawkins, Jonathan 5.5 ENG 2552 IM Galyas, Miklos 5.5 HUN 2428
9 GM Vakhidov, Jahongir 5.5 UZB 2502 FM Kirk, Ezra 5.0 ENG 2308
Live games http://www.hastingschess.com/live-games-1415-ix/
-
- Posts: 1394
- Joined: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:33 pm
- Location: Oldham
Re: Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 201
I think you'll find that it is now the 75 move rule and not 50
-
- Posts: 3551
- Joined: Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:31 pm
- Location: Awbridge, Hampshire
Re: Hastings International Chess 29 Dec 2014 - 6 January 201
No, the new 75 moves draw rule is in addition to the long-standing 50 moves draw rule, not instead of it.Alan Walton wrote:I think you'll find that it is now the 75 move rule and not 50