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| Feb-27-17 | | stst: < stst: <GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar v GM Hou Yifan >
Queen O'Draw may sink with this.
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Unfortunately, I hit this one.
Mamed the first killer of the Q. |
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| Feb-27-17 | | stst: <in her honor - "Queens gambit: neither accepted nor declined."> Unfortunately too, this one fails to work in her favor!! |
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| Feb-27-17 | | stst: <FischerBobby: she was probably bored of solid draws and prefered to lose a game> Some rooted fan for Hou from Chessbomb.
Quite true, the entire game tracks her inclination not to simply equalize, but keeps searching for counter-attacks, but too prematurely... the B&R on the K-side still not fully in action yet, impossible to pierce through W's R&Q defense + the two B's distant threats... |
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| Feb-27-17 | | activechess55: A kibitzer wanted to crack another draw-joke about queen o'draw. But he had to, abruptly, shut up. The reason? Queen o' draw threatened to play f3 and g4 in the opening! |
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| Feb-27-17 | | botvinnik64: Three way for first. Is there a playoff or do they "split" the GP points? |
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| Feb-27-17 | | AzingaBonzer: Lemon Erronian erred today. |
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| Feb-27-17 | | Marmot PFL: No tie breaks used in individual GP events. |
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| Feb-27-17 | | dm1991: Some small unsignificant statistics trivia.
So the Leko award goes to Paco Vallejo. he was prone to short draws but normally he was relatively combative. I thought it will be Aronian, MVL (he's quite drawish) or one of the Russians winning this one. Also Paco does win the early leave award with 6 under 30 move draws. The most combative award goes to Pavel Eljanov. He's the only one, who didn't have an under 30 move draw and also with Rapport and Li Chao had the biggest amount of decisive games. If i remember correctly beside being very "correct" and "orthodox" Pavel is very combative. |
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| Feb-27-17 | | tuttifrutty: What a snoozer feast. Free sleeping pills for all. Remember, a tourney without Wesley is no tourney at all. |
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| Feb-27-17 | | john barleycorn: <tuttifrutty: ... Remember, a tourney without Wesley is no tourney at all.> thank you. the rest of the world almost forgot about Mr. So Duling. |
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| Feb-27-17 | | starry2013: All the leaders had 5 whites. |
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| Feb-27-17 | | john barleycorn: who won? |
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| Feb-27-17 | | Monoceros: Chess fans: somehow managing to be even _worse_ than gamers as a community. Well done, folks. |
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| Feb-27-17 | | stst: No TB, so, if, just an "if," counted solely on points, then 5.5 and 5.0 toppers should be granted to some sort of recognition (to join the fight for Candidates??) But, clearly not, since it would be too many. And, also Mr. So has not come into play yet. Anyway, looks like MC can relax at least for the entire 2017. No challenger will be determined this year? - Have to check with FIDE. |
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| Feb-27-17 | | botvinnik64: ChessBase was not spare in its criticism (?), observation, of the tournament: "...an astonishing rate of draws..." Ok, true, but there were some good ones...zzz...I think...Pavel played the most enterprising chess. He never disappoints. |
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| Feb-27-17 | | 1971: One of the most boring tournaments in a very long time. It's what happens when you have a roster full of uninspired mercenaries, who are there to simply collect a check as safely as possible. Bunch of loserZzz. |
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| Feb-27-17 | | starry2013: The quick draw people got rewarded, that's what's most annoying. |
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| Feb-28-17 | | rokko: This is more about qualification for Candidates than a check - the rules did not award any extra bonus to single first (unlike Grand Chess Tour) - why would MVL or Grischuk risk losing 70 GP points where a win would have only brought them an extra 30?
Those who should have shown more fighting spirit were those in the next group (Jakovenko, Nepomniatchi, Nakamura). |
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| Feb-28-17 | | rokko: Even if Naka probably did what he could to create imbalances against a solid player like Adams... |
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| Feb-28-17 | | starry2013: I think the point is it wasn't just the last round. |
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| Feb-28-17 | | activechess55: Congratulations Grischuk for a fine win! Kudos to MVL and Shak for the
1st-place-tie! |
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| Feb-28-17 | | activechess55: Naka Vs Grischuk game was highlight of the event. Grischuk said, he finds it difficult to remember things at his age. Then, he proceeded to remember a ten-year-old game of his! Then he also remembered a previous game all the way till 30th move! Naka showed what is the right time to introduce a novelty. It's move 31! Conventional logic says, one who introduces the novelty ought to win the game. But Naka missed 46.h5 that led to victory. He forgot that, in modern chess, king's safety lie in front of the pawns and not behind! |
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| Mar-01-17 | | Betterthan99: make me a samwich whiny biotch |
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| Feb-12-18 | | TheTamale: Yay! Sharjah! That's where my in-laws live. I've visited. Nice place, nice people. (I visited in November, though. Don't think I'd like it so much in August.) |
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