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I just came through the table of that tournament and noticed that four players scored 6.5 points. My first question is: who was declared as the winner?
I also noticed that Christian Stevens scored 6 points, but he is not an IM. Why didn't he get the title, as usually the case in that tournament?
There was a four-way knockout playoff - with pairs of games using faster time controls.
Samsonkin beat Livshits 1.5-0.5.
Noritsyn-Hebert: there were five pairs of (recorded) games - all which were split. Noritsyn finally won - I'm not sure whether it might have been via an unrecorded Armageddon game.
Noritsyn then beat Samsonkin in the final 1.5-0.5.
I believe that Noritsyn earned the only IM title allowed to be earned at this event.
Last edited by Hugh Brodie; Wednesday, 18 May, 2011, 10:36 AM.
In a zonal, only one player can get the IM title by scoring at least two third of the points and at most two players can get the FM title by scoring at least 50%.
Previously, the number of IM and FM titles was unlimited, but in a Zonal in Mexico, a blatant abuse has been committed by inviting a lot of unrated players to the Zonal. Consequently, it became possible to get a score of 50% by playing only unrated players. This Zonal has resulted in the creation of unrated FM. Off course, FIDE has reacted by closing this gap in the rules before everybody on Earth become an unrated FM.
Last edited by Pierre Denommee; Thursday, 19 May, 2011, 01:29 PM.
Should there be another FM title handed out? Because I was the only other non-FM to score 5 points or more. I know its 4 years after the fact, but I would like to inquire.
There was a four-way knockout playoff - with pairs of games using faster time controls.
Samsonkin beat Livshits 1.5-0.5.
Noritsyn-Hebert: there were five pairs of (recorded) games - all which were split. Noritsyn finally won - I'm not sure whether it might have been via an unrecorded Armageddon game.
Noritsyn then beat Samsonkin in the final 1.5-0.5.
I believe that Noritsyn earned the only IM title allowed to be earned at this event.
Yes I remember, that was a LONG night! Exciting, but LONG!
Anyway, a player finishing 1st in a Zonal is automatically an IM. This does not count towards the limit of 1 player earning the title for being at 2/3rds score.
At least that's how the rule is written now. Perhaps it was different almost 4 years ago?
Yes I remember, that was a LONG night! Exciting, but LONG!
Anyway, a player finishing 1st in a Zonal is automatically an IM. This does not count towards the limit of 1 player earning the title for being at 2/3rds score.
At least that's how the rule is written now. Perhaps it was different almost 4 years ago?
You're right. In that case Stevens should have received IM title along with Noritsyn, and Barron and Panjwani gets the FMs.
At least that's how the rule is written now. Perhaps it was different almost 4 years ago?
R.Hamilton wrote: "With 2007 being an off-zonal year, the Championship did not nominate a Canadian who would advance in the World Ch. cycle. However, changes to FIDE regulations have made it so that, even in an off-zonal year, IM and FM titles can be earned in a Canadian Championship."
Zonal or sub-zonal - 1st,up to 3
9 or more games 2450+ (a) =20 game norm
9 or more games >= 66.66% (b)
(b) Such an event must be approved by the Presidential Board. Results are pooled as in (a). Where a zonal is an open Swiss, only the highest scoring or the highest placed on tie-break shall be awarded the title.
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