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I notice that the video/address took place in the corridor (rather than in one of the playing rooms) - with the four organizers/arbiters conveniently standing between the men's and the women's washrooms. :-)
With one woman already out of the tournament - a second one forfeited yesterday, although she remains paired for today.
Two have withdrawn from the "men's" section, but since it's a Swiss, no real harm is done.
Serge or someone might be able to put this better, but to this spectator it looks like Natalia will capture the Women's event unless she loses her final game and Myriam wins both of their final games. That would lead to a tie for 1st.
So if Natalia does prevail, there becomes the question of whether there would be a WIM prize. My reading of the rules led me to believe that the proper way to award the title would be to give it to the second place player (using the proper rules for RR withdrawls) as long as they has scored 6 points (from actual played games - but not counting the games from the 1st withdrawing player). So I would think that Myriam and Lali are tied, but Myriam has an extra game to play.
More uploads at You Tube for men's and women's first round action at the 2012 Zonals... and nary a washroom in sight in either room. Is that an indication that we are approaching equality among the sexes or will it always be: "Divided we sit or stand to pee or play."...?! Anyway - it's all the same water passing under the same bridge to me...
I'm not sure how you're calculating his performance rating but I'm pretty sure his average opponent is not rated 2774 :p
Right you are! Bator's opponent average was FIDE 2374 in rounds 1 thru 8 and therefore his performance rating is 2774. His new CFC rating will no doubt surpass 2700 again and we'll hear from the usual suspects how this proves that the CFC rating is faulty and should be revised or scrapped.
The 400 point thing is just a short-hand way to do the calculations.
And you suggest the 800 point thing used by Vlad Rekhson is another way?
The '400 point thing' was how initial ratings used to be calculated during the Vietnam war!:(:)
And you suggest the 800 point thing used by Vlad Rekhson is another way?
The '400 point thing' was how initial ratings used to be calculated during the Vietnam war!:(:)
I believe it is the way that FIDE does it, and now the way the CFC does it. I've read somewhere that a better way to calculate 100% performance ratings is to pretend that the person has slightly less than 100% (say deduct .25 from their score, so Bator would have 7.75/8) and work out the percentage and performance from there. In that case Bator's performance would be roughly 2900-2950, I think. A remarkable achievement!
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