<He recovered after the loss and took 2nd place.>

I think it's worth adding the two words "to Ivanchuk" after "loss" to remind the readers of a pretty important historical event.

<Karpov had one of his worst tournaments. He said he was tired all the time. Not surprising, considering his match in December and the Reggio Emilia tournament (which he won) in January. >

The last is a sentence fragment. I think “his WCC match in December” is worth 3 characters to gently remind the readers of why he could rightly claim to be tired. I have tried to break the last line up, but it gets a bit clunky to have 4 sentences for about 30 words. Here’s a first try to fix things:

“Karpov had one of his worst-ever tournaments, and claimed he was tired the whole time. This wasn’t surprising, as he had just competed in the WCC match in December and the Reggios Emilia Tournament (which he won) in January.”

<The 16-year-old debutant Kamsky was unable to focus, >

There’s some reason for that claim. Did Kamsky say so, someone else say it about him, what? If not, it’s a bit of unwarranted mind-reading to explain an unsurprising result for a youngster in such a high caliber tournament.

<Rentero was happy with the number of decisive games (58%). >

b) <Karpov had ...> Ok.

c) Kamsky was accompanied by his father. 1) The father did not want to deliver the score sheets to the organizer because he would get $500 for them in the US. Rentero threatened to fine him, they would not be invited again etc. and they were delivered in the end. 2) The father was rushed to hospital with chest pain on the day of Round 8. 3) I read somewhere it was speculated whether young Kamsky got unwell by the orange juice.

Anyway, lot of fuzz. What about <The 16-year-old debutant Kamsky was unable to concentrate>. Or delete it all.

Yes, there was an accusation from the Kamskys that Kasparov was paying the kitchen staff to poison them; they claimed it was an old trick back in the Soviet Union.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016...

Who says he was unable to concentrate? At a bare minimum, "it was reported that" is called for.

<d) If it helps, I added he was happy with the <high> number of decisive games.>

<On the 16-year-old debutant Kamsky, it was reported that he probably was unable to concentrate, but he did manage to beat Ljubojevic and Ehlvest.> it is now.

43rd Chess Olympiad (2018) (kibitz #361)

There were many disputes generated by the Kamsky camp. Danny King, in BCM, says they were able to sell the withheld scoresheets for $50 in New York (not the $500 you mentioned above, but who knows?). Rustam declared they were the property of the player, but FIDE rules specify that scoresheets are the property of the tournament. The sponsors, City of Linares, said they wanted the sheets as a memento of a great event.

Kamsky alleged that it was the arbiter that was breaking his concentration, and even threatened to quit the tournament over it. Meanwhile, people were complaining about Rustam's dress. He refused to change out of his tracksuit. Rustam also argued about the adjournment schedule, and was impolite with the organizer's staff, at one point receiving a ban from the tournament hall.

Moreover, according to BCM, the bad behaviour of the Kamsky camp caused the arbiter to <deduct a point> at the end, so his official tally was 1.5, rather than 2.5.

There is a nice quote from King: <"The problem is that the Kamskys believe they are something special and expect to have their every whim attended to. One way in which this manifests itself, is that Gata is not permitted, or does not want to hold post-mortems with any of the players except the two 'K's, considering that the others have more to learn from him, than he has from them!">

Other than this, Kasparov complained about the original pairings draw, which was done in contravention of FIDE rules, and of course resulted in him meeting Ivanchuk in round one; the one game he lost.

Rentero continued his policy of offering certain players £1000 bonuses for winning key encounters, and putting 'no draw' clauses in player contracts. Speelman thought the latter was very liberating: <" It's a wonderful feeling. For once I don't spend half the game thinking 'should I offer a draw?' or 'would I accept if he offered?'. You just get on with it.">

I'm interested in checking the score of

P D Bolland vs Euwe, 1924

Graham Clayton

(born Dec-23-1964, 53 years old) Australia

Good question.As far as I have noticed, it is often the date of the opening ceremony which is announced.But I believe it is in the blood of chess fans to check(no pun intended:)for themselves..

We don't have to care what day the organizers start paying the hotel rooms for the players...