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On the tournament blog a person wrote that a TA told Jeff Sarwer about the norm after his loss in R8.
Nice to see that my blog attracted some interest on the other side of the Pond. :)
I explained the lower IM norm in my comments at the end of the blog for the last round. The 5.5-point figure was based on the average strength of the tournament, but players with lower ratings are playing in a slightly stronger event (because you cannot play yourself). The norm was also lower for the tail-ender and for the lowest-rated titled player who finished a point short on 4/9. We really should have noticed this fact before the tournament began.
I understand that Jeff Sarwer will play on board 2 for newly-promoted Kymen Shakki in the top division of the Finnish national chess league next season. They are expecting to bring in some foreign GM to play top board. Most of the clubs have GMs on the top two boards for league matches, so Jeff can look forward to a challenging season.
Before this recent international tournament, Jeff also played on top board for Kymen Shakki in the national rapidplay team championships last March, achieving a creditable individual score of 8/14 against some fairly strong opposition. The event was a double round robin and four of Jeff's seven opponents were IMs: Karttunen (1-1), Agopov (0-2), Sipilä (1-1) and Ebeling (0-2).
You can find the event details here. Ignore the Finnish language and just hit the links to get individual results, crosstables etc.:
Yes please do Daryl. I for one am very interested. I consider Jeff Sarwer the most interesting Canadian player (personality wise) of his generation and its very interesting to see his competitive chess comeback.
The domestic chess league season in Finland ended last weekend. Jeff played nine out of a possible eleven matches in the top division on board 2 for his club: 5 times with white and 4 times with the black pieces.
The outcome was a complete disaster or a perfect learning experience, depending on your point of view. Jeff scored 0/9. His club was also relegated.
There seems to be no way to attach a pgn file to messages in this forum, so you will have to cut and paste the following games into your pgn viewer:
Events at normal time limits are listed as "norm" and speed chess events are listed as "nop" in the "Laji" column. Here I am only reviewing the normal time limit results. The league match results ("Seurajoukkueiden SM") are listed individually. Following the ShakkiNet International tournament held in June 2015, Jeff played in the Lahti Chess weekend congress A-division, scoring 3.5 out of 5 to gain third prize. He got the same score and placing a month later in the Helsinki Chess Club autumn congress, but with no losses. In October he was in Las Vegas for the II Millionaire Chess Open (5 out of 9 with losses in rounds 2, 4, 5 and 6), and then in January he played in the Rilton Cup in Stockholm, Sweden, scoring only 3.5 out of 9. This makes a total of 74 games rated under the Finnish ELO system (selo). Jeff's selo grade fell from an initial estimate of 2265 in June 2015 to a current level of 2222.
The most interesting aspect of this table is the contrast between the forecast result ("odotustulos") and the actual result ("tulos"). In only one league game (7 November 2015) was Jeff listed as the favourite to win (forecast of more than 0.5). In all of the other league games he was outgraded by his opponent. With the singular exception of the comback event in June 2015, Jeff's tournament results were all either slightly or significantly below par.
Jeff Sarwer is playing currently in the Finnish Championship. You can find it on: www.chessbomb.com. In round 4 he played a lovely game imo against Ronka. Congratulations Jeff on a sweet win! (I enjoy showing that opening to my students with the pawn levers on the queenside and the resulting dynamics)
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