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🏆 Millionaire Chess Open (2014)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Wesley So, Yangyi Yu, Le Quang Liem, Xiangzhi Bu, Sam Shankland, Jeffery Xiong, Aleksey Dreev, Rauf Mamedov, Evgeny Najer, Ray Robson, Gregory Kaidanov, Timur Gareyev, Varuzhan Akobian, Jianchao Zhou, Sergei Azarov, Aleksandr Lenderman, Daniel Naroditsky, Alexander Shabalov, Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, Isan Reynaldo Ortiz Suarez, Ruben Felgaer, Sabino Brunello, Giorgi Kacheishvili, Julio Catalino Sadorra, Kaido Kulaots, Alexander Ivanov, Alejandro Ramirez Alvarez, Denis Kadric, Conrad Holt, Ruifeng Li, Giorgi Margvelashvili, Ioan-Cristian Chirila, David Berczes, Carlos S Matamoros Franco, Jacek Stopa, Gudmundur Kjartansson, Akshat Chandra, Alexander Fishbein, Zbigniew Pakleza, Rogelio Barcenilla, Yunguo Wan, Jayaram Ashwin, Kacper Drozdowski, Joshua Daniel Ruiz Castillo, Ronald Burnett, Irina Krush, Lev Milman, Joshua Sheng, John Bartholomew, Dennes Abel, Dionisio Aldama Degurnay, Levon Altounian, Roberto Martin del Campo, Rade Milovanovic, Sam Schmakel, Florin Felecan, Kesav Viswanadha, Bjorn Thorfinnsson, Levy Rozman, Ricardo de Guzman, Farai Mandizha, Igor Sorkin, Kapil Chandran, Konstantin Kavutskiy, Cesar Zuluaga, David Karatorossian, Dagur Arngrimsson, Robert M Perez, Igor Schneider, Alexandre Kretchetov, Oliver Brendel, William Morrison, Justus D Williams, Kazim Gulamali, Atousa Pourkashiyan, Arthur Calugar, Ylon Schwartz, Carlos Andres Perdomo, Qibiao Wang, Sean Vibbert, Elliott Liu, James H Canty, Eduardo Rojas Sepulveda, Aghasi Inants, Henry Contreras, Eugene Yanayt, Vilmos Balint, Adithya Balasubramanian, Luis Flaquer, Alisa Melekhina, Alexander Solomon Barnett, Enrique Alfredo Farfan Ortiz, William J Aramil, Ioulia Makka, Rejean Tremblay, Oscar Estay Torreblanca, Paul Omar Perez Avendano, Carla Heredia Serrano, Harutyun Akopyan, Hristos Zygouris plus 24 more players.

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
Millionaire Chess Open (2014)

Played in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada USA, 9-13 October 2014. After 7 rounds (this page), four players (So, Robson, Yu Yangyi and Zhou Jianchao) advanced (Yu and Zhou via a blitz playoff) to the Millionaire Monday knock-out final. The remaining players (minus four players from each of two lower rating groups) finished the 9-round Swiss, the results of which can be seen at http://www.chess-results.com/tnr147.... The overall winner was Wesley So.

 page 1 of 10; games 1-25 of 248  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. So vs R M Perez 1-0292014Millionaire Chess OpenD70 Neo-Grunfeld Defense
2. Le Quang Liem vs E Rojas  1-0322014Millionaire Chess OpenD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
3. K Kavutskiy vs Y Yu  0-1322014Millionaire Chess OpenD38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation
4. R Mamedov vs A Inants 1-0392014Millionaire Chess OpenB29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
5. S Schmakel vs Dreev 0-1392014Millionaire Chess OpenD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
6. V Akobian vs S Vibbert  1-0462014Millionaire Chess OpenD17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
7. J D Williams vs S Azarov 1-0402014Millionaire Chess OpenA06 Reti Opening
8. E Najer vs B Adithya  ½-½352014Millionaire Chess OpenC84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
9. L Rozman vs Shankland  0-1402014Millionaire Chess OpenA45 Queen's Pawn Game
10. Robson vs W Morrison  1-0532014Millionaire Chess OpenC84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
11. K Gulamali vs T Gareyev  0-1442014Millionaire Chess OpenC63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense
12. Naroditsky vs E Liu 1-0222014Millionaire Chess OpenB45 Sicilian, Taimanov
13. A Ivanov vs So 0-1642014Millionaire Chess OpenB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
14. X Bu vs A Chandra  1-0802014Millionaire Chess OpenA33 English, Symmetrical
15. Y Wan vs Le Quang Liem 1-0442014Millionaire Chess OpenB47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation
16. Y Yu vs A Fishbein 1-0432014Millionaire Chess OpenB64 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack
17. D Kadric vs R Mamedov  0-1452014Millionaire Chess OpenB06 Robatsch
18. Dreev vs Xiong 0-11042014Millionaire Chess OpenD94 Grunfeld
19. D Berczes vs V Akobian  ½-½712014Millionaire Chess OpenE10 Queen's Pawn Game
20. Shankland vs I Krush  1-0392014Millionaire Chess OpenC07 French, Tarrasch
21. T Gareyev vs R Milovanovic 1-0472014Millionaire Chess OpenD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
22. J Bartholomew vs Naroditsky  ½-½402014Millionaire Chess OpenE81 King's Indian, Samisch
23. G Kacheishvili vs D Arngrimsson  ½-½452014Millionaire Chess OpenA14 English
24. G Kjartansson vs E Ghaem Maghami  0-1402014Millionaire Chess OpenE00 Queen's Pawn Game
25. C A Perdomo vs X Bu  0-1492014Millionaire Chess OpenA33 English, Symmetrical
 page 1 of 10; games 1-25 of 248  PGN Download
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Oct-15-14  Wavy: <1d410: <MissScarlett> So fans are nuts, don't bother with them. What is dismaying is that So looks like he might actually make a dent on the chess world soon and they will become mainstream.>

People who generalize are nuts. I'm a So fan and I don't think I'm nuts. Generalization is always not a good thing to say. There are some So fans who are nuts but don't generalize.

Oct-15-14  Pulo y Gata: Yes, I'm a So fan and I'm nuts and I don't generalize!
Oct-16-14  dunkenchess: I'm a So fanatic. I get drunk when he wins and also get drunk when he draw.

Hehehe...

Oct-16-14  Absentee: Do you get even MORE drunk when he loses?
Oct-16-14  Everett: <People who generalize are nuts.>

that's priceless. Want to try again?

Oct-16-14  john barleycorn: < Wavy: ... A real businessman will find a way not to spend money for something if it is possible. ...>

agree. a businessman only spends if he has to. If you are in good health why buy omega3? Why spend a 1,000$ entrance fee if somebody else will?

However, I think that the usual agreement among gamblers in a tournament applies. The winner will always compensate his not so successful teammates so there is a "no lose" for them.

Oct-16-14
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  HeMateMe: <Although it's certainly not my specialty, I have had occasion to represent both a plaintiff and a defendant (William Brock, against a lawsuit brought by Sam Sloan) in separate Internet defamation cases.>

Thanks for responding, Fred. I do respect your skills in research and organization. I simply don't have the interest you do in such things and don't hunt them down.

The fact that Sam Sloan appears in your reply/court case tells me that no real money was at stake, no real cause was produced by the plaintiff, and the mess was probably thrown out by the judge before any serious litigating was done.

I don't have to be a lawyer to see that much.

Since the topic was libel, I doubt anyone really can attack the anonymity provided by the internet, even when they use their real name. If both sides are airing dirty laundry on the net, neither side is guaranteed privacy or good behavior.

Violent threats against another person might be actionable though, if means and activity show that a threat is credible.

The other time when litigation might appear on the net is business fraud, when someone holds themselves out to be an expert in some field and advises people on the net without meeting stringent guidelines, such as posting your business history and licensing in newspapers and on television, where every internet reader is reasonably likely to see it. Seems an impossibility considering the global internet audience. So, financial advisers, doctors, lawyers and other professionals can't give specific tailor made advice to people, or risk losing their license.

Even with all of that, it isn't libel litigation.

Oct-17-14  Kanatahodets: Wes has potential to become a new WC. I think it will be the era of Magnus, Fabiano, Wei Yi and Wesley.
Oct-18-14  Everett: Rapport? MVL? Many good, young players. Nepo is another.
Oct-21-14
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  perfidious: <Benzol: I think <AJ> found the fact of other US LifeMasters on the site difficult to deal with. I don't think he liked the presence of <FSR> and <perfidious> somehow.>

Lovely stuff.

Easy to forget that there is always someone out there who might be stronger than you. In mah part of this heah world, we calls em Gee Emms, cuz they's all tough.

Oct-23-14  Benzol: Accusing <FSR> of being an alky and/or an imposter sounded like something out of a hack TV Whodunnit. Just what was he thinking?

I guess flashing the LifeMaster title wasn't going to wash in this particular case.

:)

Oct-28-14  PhilFeeley: It's good to see the larger prizes, even for the lower rateds. I always thought the prize listings for every single golf tournament were absurdly high, down to the 20th participant. Chess deserves at least their money.
Nov-02-14  freeman8201: they didn't post the rapid games between So and Robson?
Dec-19-14
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  Richard Taylor: I have studied Wesley So's games at with great depth of thought and assiduity, putting all his moves into computers, analsying, comparing etc

I finally reached some startling and greatly significant conclusions about his chess:

It is so so.

Dec-19-14
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  HeMateMe: Didn't So finish in the middle of Tata "A" group, last year? I can't remember is he was in the sub group or the main group. If it was in the main group, then he has arrived as a top player.

Probably not a threat to Carlsen, but someone who can win games, like a Moro, Mamey or a Nepi.

Dec-19-14  SugarDom: Tata Steel (2014)

He finished tied for 4th-7th in the main Group won by Aronian.

Dec-19-14
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  HeMateMe: That's not too bad, Tat-A. Was he invited for this year?
Dec-19-14  schweigzwang: Apparently So.

http://www.tatasteelchess.com/tourn...

Dec-20-14
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  HeMateMe: Hou will playing in the A group, terrific. She is near the bottom in ratings, just above local boy Van Wely. I would guess she'll do ok. she finished in the middle of the Chinese championships, playing in the men's draw.

Are Judit Polgar and Hou Yifan the only women to ever play in the January Holland tournament?

Dec-20-14
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  Richard Taylor: ...............So!
Dec-21-14
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  HeMateMe: Are Judit Polgar and Hou Yifan the only women to ever play in the January Holland tournament (top group)?
Dec-21-14
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  Troller: <HeMateMe: Are Judit Polgar and Hou Yifan the only women to ever play in the January Holland tournament (top group)?>

Nona Gaprindashvili played in 1979.

Dec-21-14
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  HeMateMe: Well done, Troller. Thank you. Has Pia been invited, or has it been just Nona, Judit and Yifan?
Dec-21-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  Troller: I actually expected Pia Cramling to have had an appearance or two in the eighties, but apparently not:

http://www.tatasteelchess.com/histo...

May-17-15  iking: <Jambow: <TheFocus> AJ Goldsby isn't even here anymore so who is it you are making to look foolish other than yourself. Ironically you told us a hundred times how this was really it I'm done I'm not coming back and yet predictably your drivel persists. On topic congrats to Wesley So his future just looks brighter all the time. Susan Polgar has helped him reach his potential and Robson another of her students got second place so those claiming she just got lucky by inheriting So need to take a second glance. This is a mutually beneficial relationship it appears.

Not only do I like So's results his style is intriguing as well.

I'm becoming a So fan I think?> .. it seems you are ....

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