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Feb-26-24
 | | MissScarlett: By popular demand. |
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| Feb-26-24 | | goodevans: I didn't realise I was popular. |
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Feb-26-24
| | MissScarlett: The concept is purely relative. |
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| Feb-26-24 | | goodevans: Featuring the three Indian GMs that have qualified for the candidates as well as the in-form Abdusattorov, this tournament promises to be just as exciting as Wijk aan Zee (albeit a few rounds shorter). I've rather foolishly booked a foreign holiday that coincides with the last couple of rounds. Most unlike me to be so disorganised with my planning. May just have to cancel it. |
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| Feb-26-24 | | EvanTheTerrible: This is essentially the tournament I've been asking for with all the top juniors in one event. I do wish we'd see Erigaisi, Sindarov, and Niemann too, but they've rounded out the field nicely with Maghsoodloo, Rapport, and Navara. My money is on Abdusattorov. |
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Feb-26-24
 | | offramp: Everyone should take a few weeks to learn chess and get the grandmaster title because then you could live in places like Prague for nothing for TWO WEEKS! |
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Feb-26-24
| | offramp: The top 4 players are rated very closely. Their rates are 2747, 2747, 2744, 2743.
That is a cumulative difference among these players of 0.000000017%! How close could that be?? |
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Feb-26-24
 | | tamar: Will the three Indian players treat Prague like a training session, or go all out to win? There will be a big temptation to take short draws among themselves. |
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| Feb-26-24 | | EvanTheTerrible: Thankfully, these guys don't seem to follow the example set by the older generation. They play to win, even against friends and compatriots. |
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| Feb-27-24 | | EvanTheTerrible: Day 1 lived up to my expectations. Praggnanandhaa - Keymer was very exciting. |
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| Feb-27-24 | | goodevans: <Day 1 lived up to my expectations.> Yes, our high hopes of this tournament seem to be justified. After a dreadful Wijk aan Zee, Maghsoodloo will be pleased with an emphatic opening win here with Black. Abdusattorov's victory was clinical and Pragg's was indeed most exciting. It may even have been brilliant but since it's beyond my understanding I can't really be sure. |
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| Feb-28-24 | | EvanTheTerrible: Praggnanandhaa's 47-game unbeaten streak ends with this loss to Maghsoodloo. |
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| Feb-28-24 | | goodevans: Maghsoodloo with 2/2. Quite a contrast to his 2/7 start to Wijk aan Zee. Pragg demonstrating that when playing a super-complicated position on the increment, he's as prone to a blunder as we mere mortals. |
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| Feb-29-24 | | goodevans: Pragg lost again, this time from a totally winning position. Was doing everything right except managing the clock. Got himself into time trouble (again) and blundered (again). Will he ever learn? |
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| Feb-29-24 | | EvanTheTerrible: "The Pragg Massacres" |
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| Feb-29-24 | | Rdb: <goodevans: Pragg lost again, this time from a totally winning position.
Was doing everything right except managing the clock. Got himself into time trouble (again) and blundered (again). Will he ever learn?> When it rains , it pours - two blunders , two losses in two games.....blundered the game away from a winning position .... Elsewhere , Arjun erigaisi made a winning start in Shengzhen Masters winning his first round game |
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| Feb-29-24 | | Rdb: Shengzhen Masters - Anish girl also won his first round game . |
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Mar-01-24
 | | Honza Cervenka: Prague Masters is not the only tournament of the Prague Chess Festival. There is also a Challengers tournament and quite strong Open with a field of some 300 players including 17 grandmasters and Eltaj Safarli as number one. There is also a Futures tournament with some talented little kids and several round robin rating tournaments. It would be fine to have at least the Challenger Tournament in the database and maybe some games from Karel Janecek's Open. Challengers: https://praguechessfestival.com/en/... Karel Janecek's Open: https://praguechessfestival.com/en/... |
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| Mar-02-24 | | goodevans: After five hard fought draws in yesterday's round 4 it was back to blood and guts today. Not sure what my favourite was for round 5. Maybe Pragg vs Vidit. I really thought Black was winning. Maybe Vidit did too but he would have been wrong. |
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Mar-02-24
 | | Korora: <After five hard fought draws in yesterday's round 4 it was back to blood and guts today.>
Maghsoodloo and Rapport just drew a hard-fought one. Talk about blood and guts; there were thirty captures. |
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| Mar-02-24 | | goodevans: Maghsoodloo ½-½ Rapport was indeed intriguing. Maghsoodloo just didn't give up when many would and Rapport ended up blowing both a middlegame win and an endgame win. That's gotta be hard to swallow. |
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| Mar-02-24 | | Rdb: <goodevans: Maghsoodloo ½-½ Rapport was indeed intriguing. Maghsoodloo just didn't give up when many would and Rapport ended up blowing both a middlegame win and an endgame win. That's gotta be hard to swallow.> And gukesh - he had a winning position and he ended up losing .... . |
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| Mar-02-24 | | waustad: What surprises me is that there are no Austrian players in any of the sections. There are players from all over the world, but none from the next country over. |
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Mar-03-24
 | | Atterdag: <waustad>. Have you any particular Austrian players in mind? Otherwise, I think there's a decent representation of various nationalities, perhaps with a slight overweight of players from the East. |
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Mar-04-24
| | Honza Cervenka: <waustad> Maybe the problem is that skiing is much more popular than chess in Austria today. Markus Ragger is the only Austrian player (if I don't count naturalised players like Alekseenko or Dragnev) who is over 2550. |
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