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https://en.chessbase.com/post/grand-...3-expectations Tournament first round starts Wednesday.
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22 grandmasters over 2700 (more than half of the worlds 2700 players) and 64 of the top 100 in the world are playing. -
Good luck!110 2620049 Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn CAN 
IM 2488 2004
https://chess-results.com/tnr793016....lag=30&snr=109Last edited by Egidijus Zeromskis; Wednesday, 1st November, 2023, 03:26 PM.Comment
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It would be a wonderful place for Shawn to get his next GM norm.Comment
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A very impressive event. A beautiful location, and each player gets $150 per day towards accommodation, and also $$ towards travel expenses. So, with 150 or so players, that comes to about $500,000, just in flights and accommodations for the players. Who is funding this, I wonder?Comment
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At the bottom of the website there are some companies listed, most likely sponsors like FIDE, Scheinberg family,Originally posted by John Coleman View PostComment
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Ah yes, on the IOM chess website is says the sponsorship package is well into 7 figures, which I can believe. This is the guy, I am pretty sure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Scheinberg.
Back in my organising days, I struggled to get $100 donations. I knew a couple of wealthy people, but they preferred to hang on to their money.
According to Wiki, Mark Scheinberg lived in Toronto as a teenager, but now lives in the Isle of Man.Comment
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He is cofounder of PokerStars ... I seem to recall that PokerStars was part of a huge lawsuit in the early 2000's, something to do with failing to allow subscribers to withdraw their money .. ah, here it is....Originally posted by John Coleman View Post
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United..._v._Scheinberg
United States v. Scheinberg, No. 1:10-cr-00336 (2011), is a United States federal criminal case against the founders of the three largest online poker companies, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Cereus (Absolute Poker/Ultimatebet), and a handful of their associates, which alleges that the defendants violated the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) and engaged in bank fraud and money laundering to process transfers to and from their customers.[1] A companion civil case, United States v. PokerStars, et al., 11 Civ. 2564 (2011), included Full Tilt and Cereus as defendants and seeks the recovery of forfeiture equalling approximately $3 billion in assets belonging to the companies. After the indictment was unsealed on April 15, 2011, a date quickly dubbed Black Friday by the online poker community, PokerStars and Full Tilt stopped offering real money play to their United States customers. ......
Looks like he came out of it pretty much unscathed?Comment
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In the first round the very top are already playing strong 2600's. GM Narayanan is white against Shawn R-L. Wonderful! (the strength of pairings)Comment
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On board two a Dragon Sicilian from Caruana! Thats brash!Comment
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Interesting position in Narayanan - Lemieux. Looking at the position after 15 moves it's hard to believe the opening was an advance Caro-Kan.
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Shawn lost a very interesting fight - wild! The Caruana game was wild too, his opponent had queen and two knights working but couldnt pull it off.Comment
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