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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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Mar-04-24
| | Honza Cervenka: <if I don't count naturalised players like Alekseenko or Dragnev> I have to correct myself, Valentin Dragnev is not naturalised. Anyway, he and other Austrian players are regularly playing in the Czech Extralegue. |
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| Mar-04-24 | | EvanTheTerrible: Vidit somehow missed the most transparent threat and is now losing. Just completely inexplicable. |
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| Mar-04-24 | | goodevans: <Vidit somehow missed the most transparent threat...> Pretty much the only threat left in Black's arsenal and a pretty obvious one at that. Careless in the extreme! |
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| Mar-04-24 | | Rdb: <goodevans: <Vidit somehow missed the most transparent threat...> Pretty much the only threat left in Black's arsenal and a pretty obvious one at that.
Careless in the extreme!>
It is happening again and again in this tournament - players in winning position blundering and ending up losing .. . |
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| Mar-05-24 | | greed and death: Nice to see Bartel get a win |
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| Mar-05-24 | | goodevans: Oh, my giddy aunt!
Vidit got his Queen trapped again. Just like yesterday. Barely believable. Has gone from 2/4 to 2/7. My advice to him for tomorrow is to exchange Qs early. One less thing for him to worry about. |
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| Mar-05-24 | | EvanTheTerrible: At least today's was not a single move threat that he overlooked. I hope he's able to shake this off. He had such a good run of results before this. |
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Mar-05-24
 | | plang: You can tell it is a fighting tournament when no one is undefeated. |
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| Mar-06-24 | | EvanTheTerrible: And all but one have a win. |
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Mar-06-24
 | | offramp: I am hoping to see a live game here, at chessgames.com.
GM Abdusattorov Nodirbek (2744) v GM Maghsoodloo Parham (2715)
or
GM Gukesh D (2743) v GM Keymer Vincent (2738)
I'd be happy with either - but I think Gukesh v Keymer might be more interesting. When the game starts I am going to drink some IPA, from <Brew Dog>. I have Four (4) cans of their original 6.5% Elvis Juice recipe. This IPA has a caramel malt base, supporting a full frontal citrus overload - grapefruit piled on top of intense aroma hops. Waves of crashing pine, orange and grapefruit round out this citrus infused IPA. 6.5%. The cans are only 330ml but it's a good beer. Prague is one of beer's spiritual homes. |
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| Mar-06-24 | | EvanTheTerrible: Congratulations to Abdusattorov on winning the tournament with a round to spare and reaching world #4, passing the World Champion. |
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| Mar-06-24 | | AdolfoAugusto: Abdusattorov has the heart of a warrior. No shy draws for him. This new generation of youngsters is very promising. |
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Mar-07-24
| | Korora: Final round, all five games went the cat's way. Hard-fought all around, even by the sole player without any wins this tournament. Forty-five games, five per round--and if I counted right, FOUR of the games ended in double bare ♔s! |
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| Mar-08-24 | | whiteshark: Abdusattorov is rolling, the others are stoned. |
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