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| timhortons: cheers chessdom, nice game coverage,we enjoy it! at least you show how mamed win:) |
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| Sep-29-09 |
| minasina: Final standings:
1-3 Andreikin, Kuzubov, Mamedov 5.5
4-6 So, Akobian, Hammer 4.5
Andreikin, Mamedov and Kuzubov will play a double round robin blitz playoff for the SPICE Cup. |
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| percyblakeney: I'd bet on Mamedov in blitz. |
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| Sep-29-09 |
| minasina: Game 1: Kuzubov 1-0 Mamedov
Game 2: Mamedov 1-0 Kuzubov
Game 3: Andreikin 1/2 Mamedov
Game 4: Mamedov - Andreikin
http://www.susanpolgar.blogspot.com/ |
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| Sep-29-09 |
| despantes: i'll go for andreikin |
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| Sep-29-09 |
| minasina: ...Why Mamedov is forced to play all his blitz games first? |
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| Sep-29-09 |
| minasina: Game 4: Mamedov 0-1 Andreikin |
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Sep-29-09
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| percyblakeney: OK, Mamedov's chances are gone and it's between Andreikin and Kuzubov. |
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| Sep-29-09 |
| minasina: ...so, Andreikin needs to draw two final blitz games against Kuzubov to win the title. |
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| Sep-29-09 |
| minasina: 5th game draw. 6ht game Kuzubov - Andreikin. What happens if Kuzubov win? |
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| Sep-29-09 |
| minasina: Kuzubov won the 6th game. Are there going to be more blitz games between Kuzubov and Andreikin? Or is there another tiebreaker? |
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Sep-29-09
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| ROADDOG: Kuzubov is the Champion.
http://www.susanpolgar.blogspot.com/ |
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| Sep-29-09 |
| minasina: OK, Kuzubov won the tournament. Mamedov got 1.5 blitz points, Kuzubov and Andreikin both 2.5, but Kuzubov won their mutual encounter. |
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| Sep-30-09 |
| Violence: Quite a boring tournament. |
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| Sep-30-09 |
| despantes: yep, lots of draws and lots of short draws |
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| Sep-30-09 |
| minasina: Round 10 draws: Kuzubov - Akobian 12 moves and So - Andreikin 18 moves. Hammer 0-1 Mamedov 41 moves. |
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| Sep-30-09 |
| minasina: Draws, less than 30 moves:
Mamedov 8 games
Andreikin 8
Kuzubov 7
Hammer 4
So 4
Akobian 3
It seems that playing short draws was a good plan: Kuzubov, Andreikin, and Mamedov tied for first. |
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| Oct-01-09 |
| DCP23: <percyblakeney: I'd bet on Mamedov in blitz.> I personally have no doubt that in blitz strength, Andreikin > Mamedov > Kuzubov. And yet, Kuzubov somehow won the tie-break. Well, stranger things happen sometimes ;) |
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| Oct-01-09 |
| cade: During this whole tournament there was only 1 decisive game not involving Hammer. Pretty shocking stuff from the other players, who would watch a tourney like this? |
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| Oct-02-09 |
| minasina: ...could have been disastrous, if they hadn't invited Hammer. |
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| Oct-02-09 |
| adair10: One got an impression that all the 2600+ rated youngsters were too concerned about losing rating points, while Hammer was just enjoying playing... |
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Oct-02-09
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| zanshin: <minasina: ...could have been disastrous, if they hadn't invited Hammer.> I agree. And he was the only one rated <2600. Maybe next time, draws should get zero points. |
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| Oct-02-09 |
| GalileoPiccolino: Too many draws lessened the hype of what it was expected of, well, so much so for such Tournament, next year's event the Sofia rules should be implemented; European Soccer system of 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and zero for a loss is recommended. |
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Oct-10-09
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| blazerdoodle: Exactly ! Cramer rules. |
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Oct-12-09
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| talisman: Texas Tech: been there twice. the place where i found J. D. Salinger's Uncollected Short Stories. They let me make copies! Neat town Lubbock that embraces chess. BTW they were running 2 full pages on donny anderson in the sports page 30 years later. |
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