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The Masters section of the Chess.com Isle of Man Open International Chess Championship tournament took place in Villa Marina, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1-9 October 2016. It featured a strong group, having been successfully lured from the usual stars of the concurrent Millionaire Chess (2016) tournament's lineup. Caruana, Nakamura and So were leading the participants' list, with over 20 other grandmasters rated above 2600 following, and many more strong players. Time control: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, 50 more minutes for the next 20 moves, then 15 more minutes for the rest of the game, with 30 seconds added per move from move one. Tournament director: Alan Ormsby. Chief arbiter: David Welch. Pavel Eljanov won the first place trophy and the title due to progressive tiebreaks. Official site: https://iominternationalchess.com/i...
Chess-Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr240883....
Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/isl...
ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/pavel...
Chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t...
TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew...
Video (Round 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUs... Note: Naiditsch took a 1/2 point bye in round 3; Shirov the same in round 5, and Wang Hao in round 4. Previous: Isle of Man Masters (2015). Next: Isle of Man Masters (2017)
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| Oct-10-16 | | diagonal: Viktor Korchnoi arriving at IoM in (13th) 2004, leading solely after five rounds: https://de.chessbase.com/post/korts..., but suffering his only loss to Chandler in round 8, beating amongst others then reigning British Champion Jonathan Rowson in style: http://www.365chess.com/game.php?gi... Viktor Korchnoi and gingergm Simon Williams in a gruelling duel:
S Williams vs Korchnoi, 2004 Ehsan Ghaem Maghami from Iran wins on tie-break in an internationally mixed field including (in nor particular order) Smirin, Volkov, Moiseenko, Milov, Zhang Zhong, Kotronias, Agrest, Ramesh, a bunch of Brits as Speelman, Chandler, Conquest, Gallagher, Wells, Howell, Rowson, Williams, McNab, the ladies Arakhamia-Grant, Li Ruofan, Houska, Bosboom-Lanchava, Skripchenko, as well as legendary Korchnoi, 73 years or novice Nakamura, 17 years, already above Elo 2600. Viktor Korchnoi finished 7th, young Nakamura, already a GM above Elo 2600, finished 16th, they played shoulder on shoulder, but were not paired, 96 players (26 GM, 4 WGM). WGM Tea Bosboom-(then)Lanchava made her third IM norm, and beat GM Ian Rogers and GM Viorel Iordachescu: Tea Bosboom-Lanchava To some extent, the IoM was the perfect role model for the <Gibraltar Masters>, starting moderately in the year 2003: Inviting a bunch of the best Brits, some of the junior and most promising chess players, strongest senior players as well as the best women players of the world. |
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| Oct-10-16 | | diagonal: In 2004, Isle of Man organized also the <1st World Senior Team Chess Championship, Port Erin, Isle Of Man>: http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/wor... This World Senior TCC was being run back to back with the IoM Open event. Korchnoi who had to hurry up to the forthcoming 2004 Chess Olympiad at Calvià, agreed to play the first four days for the team of Switzerland which took finally the bronze medal, individually performing at 3.5/4, drawing vs. Uhlmann. Germany and Israel won gold (shared), Russia did not yet take part. There wasn’t any further World Senior TCC until in the year 2014 at Vilnius, Lithuania:
https://schach.chess.com/news/lithu.... The Senior Team Chess Championships continued then at Dresden / Radebeul. |
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| Oct-10-16 | | diagonal: (continuation)
14th edition IoM 2005: Alexander Shabalov (on tie-break) 15th edition IoM 2006: Alexander Areshchenko (on tie-break) 16th and last edition 2007: Mateusz Bartel (on tie-break), shared with Vitali Golod, Zahar Efimenko, Yuri Yakovich, Michael Roiz and Mikhail Kobalia on 6.5/9 points, 86 players http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/mon... http://theweekinchess.com/html/twic... (TWIC) ..meaning actually a huge tie, many winners involved in a place for first, but no real big name, and the Gibraltar Masters rising.. Planned edition for 2008 with a new sponsor, and renamed Richard Furness Memorial Masters, = 17th Isle of Man International Chess Congress, but finally it did never take part: http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/mon...
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| Oct-10-16 | | diagonal: Relaunch of the IoM since 2014, but no longer numbered by the organizers. The Scheinberg family brings big money to the Islands: 2014: prize fond of £21,000
2015: prize fund of £32,000
2016: prize fund of £50,000
The inaugural edition of the <PokerStars Isle of Man International Chess Tournament in 2014, relocated in Douglas>: Winner Nigel Short («I am ecstatic» on Twitter), clear first at 7.5/9, a full point ahead of the rest of the field (including Adams, MVL, globetrotters Alina L’Ami, Tiviakov, Granda Zuniga, Hebden, Hillarp Persson, or legendary James Tarjan), 77 players <2nd PokerStars edition 2015 Douglas>, announced as the strongest open tournament ever to be held in the British Isles: 1. Pentala Harikrishna (on tie-break), Laurent Fressinet and Gabriel Sargissian shared 1st place with 7/9, followed by Short and Howell on 6.5/9 (including Adams, Naiditsch, globetrotters Alina & Erwin L’Ami couple, Tiviakov, Granda Zuniga, Hebden, Hillarp Persson, or legendary James Tarjan and Jan Timman), 105 players <Chess.com Isle of Man International 2016>, Chess.com IoM inaugural edition with 3 top-10 players (Caruana, Nakamura, So). 133 players entered from 39 countries, including 47 GMs. About fourty players with so-called "conditions". There are 25 GMs who've cleared 2600 Elo rating, prompting IoM Open tournament organizer <Alan Ormsby> (Chairman, Isle of Man International Chess Committee) to say that the IoM is catching up with <Gibraltar>, <Aeroflot Open in Moscow>, or the <Qatar Masters (Open) in Doha>. 1st Chess.com edition 2016 Douglas: 1. Pavel Eljanov (on tie-break), Fabiano Caruana, 3. Naiditsch (including Adams, Howell, Trent, Bok, Shirov, Leko, Rodshtein, Wang Hao, Hou Yifan, youngest IM ever Praggnanandhaa from Chennai (born in 2005), veteran Oleg Romanishin, as well as again Alina & Erwin l’Ami, Granda Zuniga, Hillarp Persson, and Tarjan, amongst others), 133 players Due to progressive tiebreaks, Eljanov won the first place trophy and the title above Caruana. The prize money was split. Mike Klein comments: In some ways, his loss on tiebreaks is the chess universe leveling things. Less than one month ago, nail-biting tiebreaks narrowly gave Caruana's U.S.A. squad gold over Eljanov's Ukrainian Team. |
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| Oct-10-16 | | diagonal: The list of the most prominent players <not winning at IoM series> is pretty impressive: Miles, Nunn, Speelman, Adams, Shirov, Leko, Vachier-Lagrave, Caruana, Nakamura, So, plus Korchnoi and Timman (both entering as Veterans). If the engine calculator does not deceive me, then the next edition of IoM must be a jubilee 20th edition of the series, or another very first inauguaral event :)) Anyway, it's fine to have another <open supertournament> on the chess planet. Let's hope, that <Hastings Congress> grows again, too. Sources:
DIE SCHACHWOCHE (Swiss chess weekly, existing 1978-2003), THE WEEK IN CHESS, Chess.com, Isle of Man International Chess Committee |
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| Oct-10-16 | | PhilFeeley: <devere> chess.com does not list the tie-break rule that gave Eljanov the trophy. Caruana had the higher RP, so one would assume he won the event. Other tournaments list the scores that determine the tie-break (Sonneborne-Berger, etc.) Why not here? |
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| Oct-10-16 | | Pulo y Gata: Chessbase has the tiebreak rankings and Eljanov, Caruana, Naiditsch it is. |
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| Oct-11-16 | | devere: <PhilFeeley: <devere> chess.com does not list the tie-break rule that gave Eljanov the trophy. Caruana had the higher RP, so one would assume he won the event. Other tournaments list the scores that determine the tie-break (Sonneborne-Berger, etc.) Why not here?> My guess is that chessresults.com is not set up to handle the progressive score tiebreak. Understanding how the progressive score works, I knew immediately that Eljanov was certain to be the winner. He was in first place, or tied for first from the 5th round on. One can argue the pros and cons of various tiebreak methods, but progressive score is certainly a reasonable one for a Swiss system tournament. |
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| | Annie K.: Unreliable last round reporting and tiebreaks weakness are known to be the main problems of Chess-Results... |
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| Oct-12-16 | | Paint My Dragon: <diagonal> re: 2nd edition, 1993 - I have it as Horner (6/9), rather than Howell (6/9). Of course both would have the initial J, so the names would look a bit similar at a glance. Can you confirm if your source says Howell? Thanks. |
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| Oct-13-16 | | diagonal: <Paint my Dragon> thanks, it is indeed then IM, several years later GM James Howell (not to mix with David Howell, born in 1990), I should have pointed out the forename, too. Confirmation 2nd edition 1993, Port Erin: 1. IM Dharshan Kumaran (7.5/9), 2.-4. WGM Arakhamia, IM Emms, GM McNab (6.5/9), 5.-6. IM Arkell, IM James Howell (6/9), 37 players, 13 nations; titles and names as of IoM 1993 (Arakhamia later married Jonathan Grant, Scottish Chess Champion 2006) Source IoM: DIE SCHACHWOCHE, no. 40 / 1993, page 30 (swiss chess weekly, TWIC not yet existing) |
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| Oct-13-16 | | Paint My Dragon: Thanks <diagonal>. I think it must have been incorrectly reported in BCM. I have just checked in CHESS (Dec 1993, pp. 8-9) and they agree with James Howell. In fact, there can be no mistake, as he wrote the report! |
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| Oct-13-16 | | diagonal: you are welcome! Off-topic, the year 1993 seems today, so far away, it's so hard to believe, there was no TWIC, no beloved Chessgames, and just not yet a world wide used Internet (technically yes). How did we live then.. ? :) |
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 | | HeMateMe: <How did we live then.. ? :)> newspapers, books and mail order catalogs. |
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| Oct-13-16 | | diagonal: why do you omit radio, television or telephone? time is flying, my question / statement above was rather intended in a melancholic sense :) |
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| Oct-14-16 | | Paint My Dragon: <diagonal> Indeed, things were very different in the world of chess news prior to the internet. BH Wood, had he lived to witness it, would have enjoyed a much easier life running his (almost) one-man, one-desk empire. Those editors survived on hearsay and infrequent (often unreliable) telex messages from news agencies. I look back now and feel slightly ashamed that I cursed so much when gaps, delays, errors and a shortage of detail compromised the reporting. |
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| Oct-14-16 | | diagonal: <HMH>, <PmD> those were the days, ..they were different.. in the good and in the bad. BH Wood must have worked arduously, I've heard of him and his achievements (and professional controversies and debates) only in retrospective, thanks to the Internet :) I've been growing up as a child, teenager and student with <DIE SCHACHWOCHE>, an internationally focussed chess weekly (!) in Switzerland existing from 1978 to May 2003. Initially founded by <Yves Kraushaar> under the name of "chess-press". Kraushaar told the astonished swiss people and non chess-journalists that the royal game is a fascinating art and a tough sport competition. In 1977, Kraushaar was searching for Bobby Fischer, and finally met him at Pasadena, at least he reported that, and wrote a book on Bobby: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print... <Werner Widmer>, a very reliable and rather introvert personality took over on friendly terms from the quite extravert Kraushaar who left the chess scene as spontaneously as he entered it, Widmer was then editor-in-chief of DIE SCHACHWOCHE for more than two decades, both men were not linked with the official Swiss Chess Federation(s). The sudden end of that unique weekly magazine did hurt me, decreasing print circulation was the main reason, the commercial concurrence of the Web was stipulated to be guilty, and of course, lack of chess interest / media coverage in Switzerland in general. DIE SCHACHWOCHE was somehow a legitimate predecessor of the fabulous THE WEEK IN CHESS of Mark Crowther today (and since more than twenty years): http://theweekinchess.com/ <TWIC - THE WEEK IN CHESS>, the leading digest of game scores and tournament results in a popular and state-of-the-art newsletter, edited since its inception by <Mark Crowther> from England, additionally longtime encouraged by the London Chess Centre through Malcolm Pein. The very first issue of the magazine was published on 17th September 1994, all editions since then are available for free download, more than 1'000 TWIC issues with over 1.5 million games. Mark Crowther IS the father of all chess newspages! A very relevant site. For a Laudatio, including a self-portrait: http://www.chessvibes.com/?q=the-we... (chessvibes is now owned by chess.com, both maintained by renowned Peter Doggers and his crew). |
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| Oct-14-16 | | Paint My Dragon: Thanks for that, <diagonal>. Although familiar with the existence of DIE SCHACHWOCHE, I knew nothing at all about it. As you describe it, there were heroes like BH Wood at the helm there too; editors who were ambitious enough to track down Fischer and no doubt keep the magazine lively and popular. As you point out, the internet now offers so much instant, up to date news, it has hastened the end of some magazines and reduced others to such small readerships, that you wonder how they can possibly survive. It is difficult to find a formula that can compete, but I believe that New In Chess have managed it. They have stayed faithful to on-location reporting and big name collaborators - and have maintained an impressive depth to all of their back stories, major interviews and analysis. I lost faith in CHESS magazine in 2013, when I realized that much of their reporting was just a re-hash of the internet stuff, interspersed with a few networked articles and back-room-staff-regurgitated history articles, taken from their own back issues. Original content was thin on the ground and sometimes consisted of unknown authors telling dull stories on the theme of ... "a funny thing happened to me at my local chess club the other night". BCM may be slightly better these days, but I would still struggle to justify a subscription. As for the daily fix, we are almost spoilt for choice, with the likes of Crowther, Doggers, Chess24 and Chessbase News, all providing excellent free coverage. |
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| Oct-15-16 | | zanzibar: I was going,
"Doggers? I don't know any Doggers' chess site"... Ah, but yes I do, it's ChessVibes - isn't it?
I'm a little uncertain though, since there's also a Peter Doggers on the chess.com staff: https://www.chess.com/members/view/...
https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml... . |
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| Oct-15-16 | | diagonal: <Paint my Dragon> thanks for your analyses: <The internet now offers so much instant, up to date news, it has hastened the end of some magazines and reduced others to such small readerships, that you wonder how they can possibly survive. It is difficult to find a formula that can compete, but I believe that New In Chess have managed it. They have stayed faithful to on-location reporting and big name collaborators - and have maintained an impressive depth to all of their back stories, major interviews and analysis. ..As for the daily fix, we are almost spoilt for choice, with the likes of Crowther, Doggers, Chess24 and Chessbase News, all providing excellent free coverage.> It is amazing, which informative and exciting chess content we all get for free! Apparently in a business model that works. For instance, Chess.com offers again and again brilliant written stories.
A chess event is not only based on Elo and category average (with almost always the same top ten players) and engine evaluations, but also on the Narrative: ages, gender, different styles or prominent and promising players from the hosting nation. Chess careers and games can again have a Narrative - all sports (and arts) need this. <zanzibar> Yes, <Mr. ChessVibes> is today <Mr. Chess>, see for more links: Peter Doggers Addendum @ Yves Kraushaar / DIE SCHACHWOCHE
The Chess Festival of Biel in summer 1976 hosted parallel to the Interzonal another 820 participants from all continents in various events (two main Open and a General Amateur tournament, a Youth tournament, a strong Blitz). Responsible media officer of the Festival was the always innovative Yves Kraushaar. <As a technological novelty, two international telephone lines with automatically spoken, daily fresh results were established> (http://www.chessdiagonals.ch/402840...) Just forty years ago.
What will be around 2050..... in chess, in life? |
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| Oct-15-16 | | Paint My Dragon: <Domdaniel> I confess to having switched allegiance back and forth over the years. I was a huge fan of the Cafferty era at BCM, but had a preference for CHESS most other times. It was with a heavy heart that I terminated the CHESS subscription, but enough was enough - I felt that the content had been on a downward spiral for quite some time. My favourite articles (both magazines) were always the overseas tournament reports from the globetrotting and often humorously anecdotal Hartston, Nunn, Miles, Speelman, and Hodgson. But we are unlikely to see a return to those days. English IMs and GMs now ply their trade mostly on the domestic front and find foreign travel prohibitively expensive. Once upon a time, before the 4NCL came about, chasing title norms necessarily involved crossing swords with Europe's finest at some obscure hotel in Spain, where an all-night disco raged next to the player's rooms. <zanzi> Incidentally, in the UK we have to be a little careful how we use the word 'doggers', but that's a whole other story, and probably not for a family audience ... ;) <diagonal> Yes, we are very lucky that chess is so internet friendly. So many ways to interact, both now and in the future, but thinking of the narrative that you mention, I sometimes worry that there are not enough interesting characters in chess. Without crazy people like Korchnoi and Fischer, we may be missing a few personalities who can enliven a party, or add some drama to proceedings - Nigel Short? Ivanchuk? Jobava? Shirov? Aronian? Giri? - I suppose there are a few, but not too many. All too often, I have fallen asleep during interviews with Anand, Gelfand, Nakamura, Karjakin, Hou Yifan ... |
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