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| Apr-21-11 | | MaxxLange: No, today is the last round of the preliminary phase. There should be some fighting games, as draws will be useless to anyone who is close to qualifying. |
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Apr-21-11
 | | boz: Onischuk-Shankland could be interesting. |
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Apr-21-11
 | | HeMateMe: Oh, right its early, games start 2p central time? |
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Apr-21-11
| | boz: 3pm eastern is all I know. |
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| Apr-21-11 | | MaxxLange: right |
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Apr-21-11
| | boz: Seirawan has chosen a difficult variation defending the Black side of the Panov/Caro-Kann. |
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| Apr-21-11 | | Everett: Well, if Seirawan wants a piece of the pie, he'll have to beat Hess. Even so, that might not be enough. |
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Apr-21-11
 | | Marmot PFL: interesting gambit in finegold-shabalov |
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Apr-21-11
| | boz: Marmot you've been quite the changeling these days. |
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Apr-21-11
| | boz: Seirawan has played 13...Qd7. If White plays 14.a5 Black can answer with ...Nc8 followed by ...Nd6. |
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| Apr-21-11 | | shalgo: 13...a5 is more common in this line, but there are still at least a few other games that have reached the position after 15...Nd6 in Hess-Seirawan. |
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| Apr-21-11 | | MaxxLange: Finegold sacrificing a piece right out of the opening! |
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Apr-21-11
| | boz: Seirawan beginning to feel the lack of space. |
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| Apr-21-11 | | shalgo: <Seirawan beginning to feel the lack of space.> And time. |
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Apr-21-11
 | | TheFocus: Where can you view the games being played? |
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| Apr-21-11 | | Jim Bartle: http://www.saintlouischessclub.org/... |
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| Apr-21-11 | | MaxxLange: the commentary is at
http://www.livestream.com/uschess
there is a link to that on the games page, too, as well as to archived live commentary |
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| Apr-21-11 | | MaxxLange: Shulman-Hess is one of the two semi-final pairings, it seems, and Kamsky vs winner of Shankland-Onischuk playoff |
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| Apr-21-11 | | MaxxLange: ow! Feingold, who ended up getting a Rook and some positional compensation for 2 pieces,for his opening sac, just got his Rook trapped, and had to give up an Exchange, which leaves him down a piece. |
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Apr-21-11
| | TheFocus: Lost all three bets and am busted at $0 chess bucks. Better luck next leg. |
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Apr-21-11
 | | Peligroso Patzer: In the position in Finegold vs. Shabalov after 81. … h2: 
click for larger view … it initially seemed to me that White (rather than the actual 82. Bxh2, merely forcing Shabalov to prove he can mate with B and N in a pawnless ending, which should be routine for any GM) had a better defense with <82. Kg2>. Finally it dawned on me that after that, Black would have had the shot: <82. … Bf1+>. If White then takes the Bishop, Black safely promotes, but if <83. Kh1>, then <83. … Kh3> with <84. … Bg2#> to follow. |
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Apr-21-11
| | Peligroso Patzer: I have not been able to find rules for a tiebreak in the preliminary stage. Here are the rules for a semifinal or finals tiebreak: "Semifinals and finals tiebreaks will consist of a two-game rapid match (G/25+5 second increment). If the contest is still undecided, the match will go to a rapid Armageddon bidding game with a base time of 45 minutes for each Player. Black will have draw odds. Each Player shall bid an amount of time (minutes and seconds, a number equal to or less than 45:00) they are willing to play with in order to choose their color. The Player who bids the lowest amount of time chooses his color and begins with that amount of time; the other Player receives 45:00. If both Players bid exactly the same amount of time, the Chief Arbiter will flip a coin to determine who shall choose their color." Source: http://saintlouischessclub.org/2011... |
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Apr-21-11
 | | FSR: Amazing performance by Hess. The kid's barely out of high school. Who would have thought that in a 7-round tournament, someone would win by 1.5 points? Of course, this only gets him to the finals, where the slate is wiped clean. |
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Apr-21-11
 | | wordfunph: weird Finegold-Shabalov game, Shaba with N+B but failed to checkmate Finegold and 1-0 result. why Shaba lost remains unanswered.. |
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| Apr-21-11 | | Jim Bartle: I assumed the 1-0 for Finegold-Shabalov was an error, that it was 0-1. I guess Shabalov ran out of time. |
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