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The tournament was already FIDE rated (faster then CFC).
Interesting, I played 2 of the Fide rated players and the calculator on the site gives me a PR of 1928. My goal going in was to see if I could still after 10 years out of serious play, still perform above 2000 CFC. According to the results list I must have performed better than my 10 year old CFC rating since the list shows my new CFC rating as up 9 points to 2059. Not an official CFC calculation of course.
I took two half point byes so as to have the stamina to play fairly well, even so that 10:00 start on Monday was tough after playing Sunday night. With a little more rest I might have been able to give Williams a better game rather than making that rather crass blunder at move 14, though I imagine the end result would have been the same.
I have been cleaning up the gamescores, and there are several that Monroi trashed. Roger - if you can find and check the scoresheets of the following (or somehow try to reconstruct a legal gamescore):
The tournament was already FIDE rated (faster then CFC).
CFC appears to have rated it now. I went from 2050 to 2056 rather than 2059 as the site software calculated. What matters to me is that I am still able to play at around my old rating level in my advanced age and general decrepitude.
Now I want the person who gave me the cold sometime during the weekend to confess.
And I have competition for the Seedhouse rating title, as someone named Jeffrey Seedhouse is playing in Ontario.
I have been cleaning up the gamescores, and there are several that Monroi trashed. Roger - if you can find and check the scoresheets of the following (or somehow try to reconstruct a legal gamescore):
It looks like a couple of others have been cleaned up already. (in one - the correct (and legal) move was 0-0; Monroi had the illegal 0-0-0).
Unfortunately, I do not have any legible scoresheets for those games. I did notice that the monroi version of Maisuradze-Gansvind was no good so did not include it but otherwise did not check the monroi scores (used scoresheet if both were available). Pity really about the missing Maisuradze games, particularly against Gansvind.
I know that the Monroi devices are usually quite dependable - but I'm wondering why as many as 6 out of the 20 or so games (which used Monroi) from this tournament could have been trashed. (another example is Han-Wright (round 4) in which the PGN file shows only White moves (no Black moves) past move 18). Was a Monroi rep on site (or reachable)?
I know that the Monroi devices are usually quite dependable - but I'm wondering why as many as 6 out of the 20 or so games (which used Monroi) from this tournament could have been trashed. (another example is Han-Wright (round 4) in which the PGN file shows only White moves (no Black moves) past move 18). Was a Monroi rep on site (or reachable)?
There were some other issues - the hotel Internet crashed at one point and was not completely reliable plus users with the monroi devices did not always complete their games.
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