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There's no betting line on Eric's game today but he surely would have been another Black favourite. Black is the prohibitive favourite on the top 2 boards and in 6 of the 8 games being offered for betting today. The game which greatly interests me is the board 12 game between American IM Marc Esserman and Swedish GM Nils Grandelius. Marc, author of 'Mayhem in the Morra!', is generally considered the world's foremost expert on the Morra Gambit and if he gets to play one today, I certainly just love him at those 42/5 odds (:
Is it commonplace for people to bet on (top level) chess games in Europe, like they do here on NFL games or the upcoming March Madness basketball tournament?
A writer on ecforum says “It’s raining miniatures. Sunday after the night before?” and cites L’Ami-Mamedyarov, Stefannson-Granda Zuniga and Idani-Edvarsson.
Navara isn’t in the lineup for Round 7 because he scheduled a bye here at the first of the tournament.
Reykjavik Open
Round 7, March 15, 2015
Stefansson, Hannes - Granda Zuniga, Julio
B17 Caro-Kann, Petrosian-Smyslov Variation
1. Granda Zuniga, Julio – L’Ami, Erwin
2. Eljanov, Pavel – Naroditsky, Daniel
3. Hansen, Eric – Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar
4. Navara, David – Fier, Alexandr
5. Melkumyan, Hrant – Maze, Sebastien
6. Stopa, Jacek – Movsesian, Sergei
7. Hammer, Jon L. – Danielsen, Henrik
8. Jones, Gawain – Idani, Pouya
9. Pakleza, Zbigniew – Gupta, Abhijeet
10. Grandelius, Nils – Galego, Luis
11. Abdumalik, Zhansaya – Steingrimsson, Hedinn
12. Preotu, Razvan – Cornette, Matthieu
13. Jussupow, Artur – Gunnarsson, Jon
14. Stefansson, Hannes – Esserman, Marc
15. Arngrimsson, Dagur – Gretarsson, Hjorvar
25. Bekker-Jensen, S. – Cummings, David
48. Kenney, Jason – Rosner, Jonas
53. Kristinsson, Jon – Miller, David
80. Meier, Gerd – Zhou Qiyu
81. Haraldsson, Sigurjon – Haessel, Dale
84. Borg, Flemming – Chan, James
87. Murray, Michael – Miszkielo, Bartosz
Carlsen & Hammer team won this year chess pub quiz with 26/30 correct answers. Some questions were very funny. Unfortunately I only got the answers from the winner team (the black writing is Hammer's) and no questions.
The 2012 winners were Michael Dougherty & David Cummings with 29/30
Eric is 79/10 to beat Shakh today, 23/10 to hold a draw, and 34/25 to not lose (i.e. either win or draw) while Shakh is the 11/20 betting favourite. Once again, there's no betting line on Razvan's game.
While there's seemingly nothing wrong with Eric's position on the board against Shakh's Caro-Kann, the fact that Shakh has played his first 13 moves in negative 3:14 and has a full hour's time advantage can hardly auger well for Eric ):
The last game to finish featured an endgame with White having two pawns (g,h) and a rook and Black with one pawn (h) and knight and rook. The question was that if they trade rooks, then was the game absolutely won for Black?
L’Ami finally gets the full point and is the sole leader.
Reykjavik Open
Round 8, March 16, 2015
Granda Zuniga, Julio – L’Ami, Erwin
A80 Dutch
L’Ami is in an endgame with queen, rook and d and h pawns against queen, rook and g pawn. He has the advantage but the chess machine is grinding slowly. Around the 60th move both players are in time trouble. If Erwin wins this game, he has won the tournament outright with one round to go. He tries 62. h4, which everyone has been touting as the winning move. Don’t play over this endgame without having medical help at hand! Eric Hansen and Ian Rogers are in the analysis room and say that it is mate in 60 at move 73, but it is more than likely they have been looking at the computer evaluation.
Finally, L’Ami has the win! We have a tournament winner too. What a game!
- brilliant finish by L’Ami, may be his best tournament win
- 8.5/9, incredible
- must have got a lot of ELO points - 30
Reykjavik Open
Round 9, March 17, 2015
L’Ami, Erwin – Melkumyan, Hrant
D85 Grunfeld, Modern Exchange Variation
Two notes: David Miller is playing the early grandmaster slayer, Daniel Bisby. Readers of The Three Musketeers will remember the infamous Milady de Winter. Michael Murray tomorrow plays against Eric de Winter!
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Tuesday, 17th March, 2015, 09:22 PM.
Despite being eleventh in the rating list of the tournament, Dutch grandmaster Erwin L’Ami took the clear first place. He won yesterday with one round to go. Today’s loss to Eljanov didn’t change anything except give the Ukrainian GM second place ahead of French GM Fabien Libiszewski.
Some tweets:
L’Ami - A bit annoyed with today's game, but all in all I had a pretty good time in Reykjavik
Eljanov - I didn't show my best chess during this tnmt but 2nd is very decent result. It's interesting that I didn't meet neither Shahriyar nor David.
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