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[Wayne Komer]

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September 26, 2015

The young Chinese, Wei Yi, has been playing magnificently this year. He played an “immortal” king hunt game against Bruzon at the Sixth Danzhou International in July.

Alas, even the best and brightest can succumb with one weak game in a knockout. And this happened against Peter Svidler in the quarterfinals of the World Cup Baku 2015.

This prompted one viewer on chess24.com to say:

Now we are witnessing Wei Yi's mortal game

[Wayne Komer]

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September 20, 2015

You know the basic situation – it was the last game, an Armageddon, of World Cup Baku 2015, third round, between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura. Supposedly Nakamura castled using two hands, Nepo appealed the game and lost the appeal.

Peter Doggers in Chess.com had this quote:

In most cases the members of an Appeals Committee don't have anything to do at a tournament. They spend some weeks in a hotel, enjoy the chess and go home with substantial pocket money.

Jorge Vega, the Chairman of the Committee in Baku, receives U. S. $10 000. The two other members, Hesham Mohamed Elgendy and Zurab Azmaiparashvili, receive $14,000 in total.

This time they actually had to work for their money. Ian Nepomniachtchi today filed a written appeal against his loss in the Armageddon game with Hikaru Nakamura.

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Colin McGourty in chess24.com details an exchange between Azmaiparashvili and Nepomniachtchi and talks of Nepo having a “combustible character”.

Actually, I think Nepo was very hard done by indeed.

Nepomniachtchi, whose combustible character once saw him expelled from Evgeny Bareev's chess school for throwing a shoe at a trainer (his basic defence: "I missed"!) would tweet,” Azmaiparashvili, who took a move back in a classical game, is now a member of an appeals committee. Feel the irony.”.

Colin also refers to an interesting effect that may have been in play, which prevented any one of several arbiters from stopping the action when the infraction happened:

Perhaps, as in more everyday situations, the large number of arbiters present actually made it less likely that any one of them would get involved due to the "bystander effect", the paradox that "the probability of help is inversely related to the number of bystanders".

[Wayne Komer]

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September 18, 2015

In the World Cup Baku 2015, a random set of games is transmission-delayed by 15 minutes as an anti-cheating measure.

However, the online commentators often ask that the cameraman to go over and “shoot” the board so they can see what is happening.

Hence this quote from chess vibes:

What is the point of delaying game transmission if the commentators talk about the live position anyway (as they should)?

[Wayne Komer]

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September 12, 2015

In the World Cup Baku 2015, personal pens and watches have been banned from the tournament floor, which caused Roger de Coverly to ask on the EC Forum:

Are they still using zero default times? It’s a double hit to demand that players be on time, but deny them the means to achieve this.

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September 9, 2015

A “yurt” is a portable, round tent covered with skins or felt and used as a dwelling by the nomads in the steppes of Central Asia.

There is an old news story online about Kirsan Ilyumzhinov that uses the word in an expression about keeping his presidential position warm, if he needs to return:

Many in the republic think that even if Ilyumzhinov is not granted the opportunity to run for a third term, he will nevertheless succeed in finding a loyal replacement to "guard his yurt" in his absence.
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I have been amused by the thought that someone in Elista could open a shop that sold flavoured yogurts and real-estate and name it “Gurts and Yurts”.

See “The resistable rise of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov” at

http://atimes.com/c-asia/CH17Ag01.html