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All top section Zonal games are available for download...
All top section Zonal games are available for download...
All 155 games from the top section of the Zonal are available for download, as well as most of the games from the other sections. I will give periodic updates as to the status.
Thank you Hugh! I do not think you get enough credit for updating your database. I know how hard it is to get games, plus you have to input them!
Absolutely! Thanks are also in order to Omar Shah, who was scanning games to Hugh during the tournament, and Danny Goldenberg who delivered all the scoresheets to Hugh. Super team effort!
Bareev had the most wins with White 4 (100%).
With 3 White wins were:
Findlay, Ian; Samsonkin, Artiom; Yang, Kaiqi; Noritsyn, Sergey; Noritsyn, Nikolay; Vettese, Nicholas; Dukic, Zachary.
With 3 Black wins were Thavandiran, Shiyam; Plotkin, Mark; Bareev, Evgeny; Noritsyn, Nikolay.
The most draws with 5 were Hambleton, Aman; Yao, Hou Ji; Plotkin, Victor.
With 4 draws were Findlay, Ian; Tremblay, Rejean; Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn; Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta; Tanaka, Tyler; Zhou, Qiyu; Kang, Dorian; Desforges, Jean.
Five players didn't win with White, 7 didn't win with Black. Nine players didn't draw with White, 7 didn't draw with Black.
Hambleton, Aman was the only undefeated player. Undefeated as Black (4 games) were also Thavandiran, Shiyam; Plotkin, Mark; Zhou, Qiyu; Li, William; Kang, Dorian; Gentes, Kevin.
Undefeatted with White were also Findlay, Ian; Tremblay, Rejean; Yao, Hou Ji; Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn; Tanaka, Tyler; Munro, Allan.
Total number of moves played 6,757, average 44 moves per game.
Most number of moves played:
Vettese, Nicholas 524 moves (avg game 58)
Noritsyn, Sergey 468 (52)
Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn 460 (51) Also Chen, Max and Rusonik, Max (51)
Yao, Hou Ji 452 (50)
Gordon, David 450 (50)
Thavandiran, Shiyam 445 (49)
Plotkin, Mark 445 (49)
Li, William 419 (47) also Munro, Allan (47)
Lowest number of moves per game average:
Chen, Richard 32.5 (293 moves)
Noritsyn, Nikolay 36 (326)
Doknjas, Joshua 37 (336)
Hambleton, Aman 38 (343)
Plotkin, Victor 39 (350)
Wiebe, Isaac 352 (39)
Desforges, Jean 355 (39)
Tremblay, Rejean 357 (40)
Samsonkin, Artiom 40 (361)
Huang, Qiuyu 363 (40)
Yang, Kaiqi 365 (41)
Dukic, Zachary 366 (41)
Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta 368 (41)
Length of games with White result:
Under 20 moves 3 +0=2-1
20-29 18 +7=9-2
30-39 41 +15=11-15
40-49 42 +11=11-20
50-59 27 +10=9-8
60-69 11 +7=3-1
70-79 6 +2=2-2
80-88 5 +3=0-2
White wins more of the shorter and longer games. longest game Rusonik, Max 1-0 Chen Max 88 moves. Rusonik also had one of the three shortest games of 16 moves.
Length of games per round with White result:
1 48 +7=2-8
2 43 +6=6-6
3 43 +5=6-6
4 47 +7=4-6 (+F)
5 48 +5=6-6 (+F)
6 46 +5=5-7
7 44 +11=4-2
8 50 +5=6-6
9 37 +4=8-4
(6,890 moves, 45 move average)
Round 1 had the most Black wins and least draws. Round 7 had almost double the number of white wins. The last round had the lowest average of moves but didn't have an excessive number of draws. I don't notice any difference between morning and afternoon rounds.
As an Arbiter, may favorite stat was: "average 44 moves per game"
That's an Arbiter's anecdotal observation, that when you have a first time control of 40 moves, that players will accept reality more AFTER they've RUSHED to make that first time control. Cool stat!
Besides Hugh and his team, I would like to applaud some other key people who made this extraordinary games capture a reality. First, John Upper for inspiring really cool carbon scoresheets for ALL sections. John designed them, printed them, and delivered them. And then John FULLY took care of his work broadcasting the top boards and photographing hundreds of times. This liberated me to work more with Danny Goldenberg. And Danny was incredibly dependable for ALL Arbiter duties, which in turn facilitated Omar Shah. Omar was the "junior" Arbiter who took it upon himself, often late at night, to scan dozens and dozens of scoresheets to Hugh, whose team could start entering them well before Danny physically delivered all of the hard copies to Hugh after the event.
All in all, an awesome collection of effort from people who give so much to chess. I tip my hat to you men. Well done!!
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