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In the top 20 live its basically a sea of red. (except for Magnus) gotta love it!
Basically, because of the effect of DRAWS resulting in rating decreases of the higher rated players. I hope that someday, rating calculations should only be computed if a game is decisive and ratings of both players remain unchanged in case of a DRAW result. I doubt if someone will ever break the 2900 regular rating barrier. How on earth can a tournament winner without a loss lost Rating points? At least, a player should earn a minimum of 1 point rating increase for every win as a reward even if there is big rating difference. Definitely, this is one of the reasons why the elite GMs don't play in OPEN chess tournaments because they wanted to protect their ratings. If a DRAW result will not affect their ratings, we might see more elite players joining OPEN chess tournaments that offer attractive cash prizes.
There is a good variety in the broadcast of the event. Ivan Sokolov and Keti Tsatsalashvili are quite good. Ivan was born in Bosnia (1968) and now lives and plays in the Netherlands. Keti (b. 1992) is Georgian and holds her own. On her chessgames page a reader writes, “Don't worry. It's an open secret that if you put I. Sokolov in front of a mic you must be ready to get a continuous chess lecture for hours.
The chessbrahs are very entertaining but I must admit to being overwhelmed by Aman Hambleton’s hair. It looks like he hasn’t had a haircut for a year and his beard defies adjectivizing!
At the end of today’s transmission Eric and Aman called up the bracket for tomorrow’s matches on the screen. It was clear and right up-to-the-moment and I wondered where they found it. It turned out it was on the Wikipedia World Cup 2017 article. See for yourself:
Somebody at Wikipedia is really on the ball!
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From chess.com
Anand's early elimination is good news for the organizers of the Chess.com Isle of Man tournament, which runs Saturday September 23 to Sunday October 1. The Indian legend is on the participants list, under the condition that he could withdraw if he made it to the World Cup semifinal. (This is also the case for e.g. MVL, Caruana, So and Nakamura.)
Kovalyov was happy obviously, but again said that this tournament is also tough because he needs to combine it with his computer science studies. "I will be really stressed now. But for now I will try to enjoy and worry later," he said. https://www.chess.com/news/view/favo...in-knocked-out
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Today, Peter Svidler eliminated Viktor Erdos, the young Hungarian in two rapid games.
Then “Svidler remained downstairs for the rest of the day and was mostly cheering for Maxim Matlakov, his friend and occasional second from St. Petersburg. Matlakov had a long match, and eventually eliminated Dmitry Andreikin in the 5+3 segment.”
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Vassily Ivanchuk and many onlookers, such as Giri and Svidler, were just astonished when Jan-Krzysztof Duda played the following combination with little time on the clock. Never has the word "study-like" been more appropriate:
For their first 10+10 game, Ivanchuk arrived 3.5 minutes late. He apologized to both his opponent and the arbiter, and to the latter he said that it is difficult to keep track of the time when you're not allowed to bring in a watch. (This is an anti-cheating measure as smartwatches get more and more sophisticated these days.)
The arbiter was obviously right in pointing out to Chuky that outside the playing hall it's perfectly fine to wear a watch on your wrist. At the same time it is also a bit strange that neither in the playing hall nor in the hotel lobby (where most players hang out during breaks) a clock is hanging on a wall.
There was also some crazy stuff left behind the scenes, as Svidler told Chess.com.
"Funnily enough, once again in a game with Viktor, somebody fails to promote properly. For the first time in my life, I actually left the pawn on f8 and pressed the clock when I took e7xf8. I don't know what happened to my brain at that point."
And so, like in his game with Bassem Amin, Erdos was given two extra minutes on the clock—something that got the players laughing about while the arbiter was resetting the clock. Svidler was lucky that an illegal move doesn't lose on the first instance, but only on the second.
Anton didn't show up this morning and been forfeited.
Kovalyov was there, it was a dress code violation for wearing shorts apparently. Ian Rogers said that Kovalyov has worn the exact same shorts during his two prior matches. This is really disappointing.
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