| Isle of Man Grand Swiss (2019) |
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The FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss was an 11-round Swiss tournament taking place from 10-21 October 2019 in the COMIS Hotel and Golf Resort near Douglas, Isle of Man. Rest day: 16 October. The winner (or highest placed finisher if Magnus Carlsen and/or Fabiano Caruana came out in front) would qualify for the 2020 Candidates tournament. Tiebreaks (TB 1: rating average of opponents), and not a playoff, would decide placings in the event of a tie for first place. The 100 highest rated players from July 2018 to June 2019 were invited as well as 17 players who qualified through various competitions and wildcards. Players received 100 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 50 more minutes for the next 20 moves, then 15 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment per move starting from move 1. The total prize fund for the Grand Swiss was $432,500, with $70,000 for first place. Tournament director: Alan Ormsby. Chief arbiter: Alex Holowczak. Wang Hao won on tiebreak ahead of Caruana, both with 8/11. Wang Hao qualified for the World Championship Candidates (2020/21) tournament. Caruana was already qualified as the loser of the Carlsen - Caruana World Championship Match (2018). World champion Carlsen ended on 7.5/11, but took his undefeated run to 101 games. Official site: https://iominternationalchess.com/
Chess-Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr478041....
Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/wan...
ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-...
Chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t...
TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi... Previous: Isle of Man Masters (2018). Next Grand Swiss: FIDE Grand Swiss (2021)
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| Oct-26-19 | | WorstPlayerEver: Esperanto is a bit pretendando. |
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| Oct-26-19 | | nok: <Absentee> Your points are discussed in the faq (8-9): http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/a.html <there's virtually no literature>
For the time being you can listen to bluegrass in LFN. Yee-haa! https://youtu.be/4gZl75Fq0n0 |
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Oct-26-19
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi Count:
"The Viking invasions left a powerful impact on the English language." Indeed (back to chess!) the Isle of Man was a Viking colony for a century or two. Scotland has a period of history called Scandinavian Scotland where many of today's place names are of Viking origin. Not forgetting Eric 'The Lost' Satnav who discovered America, Australia and Hawaii. *** |
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| Oct-26-19 | | LameJokes: Why does this happen only to human chess? Engines play better and knock day night out of us. And why this doesn’t happen with the language spoken by machines? Yeah, machines have made some progress. We dish out verbal command into the machine, “Shut down the light.” Sure enough, it’s shut down. We speak our language into the same machine and we get verbal translation of another language in few seconds. Although, I am not impressed. Machine is replicating our functions, not necessarily, outshining us. Why we may ask we have to put this question, What language humans are going to speak in future? Whereas the answer should have been automatic: “The language of machines.” What not Ricky Gervais announcing Oscar for best screenplay and LcZero walking up the podium to receive the same? And why not StockFish writing international best seller like ‘The Da Vinci Code’? Chess fraternity is the most unfortunate community on the whole planet. We are the only one who get browbeaten by machines. |
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| Oct-26-19 | | Count Wedgemore: <Sally S.: Scotland has a period of history called Scandinavian Scotland where many of today's place names are of Viking origin.> Yes, and the Northern isles, Shetland and the Orkneys, was a Norwegian province until the late 1400s (we should have kept them :=) Come to think of it, Scotland was an independent sovereign state for centuries until a group of Scottish noblemen sold out your country to the English in 1707. Time to reverse the treachery they did, once and for all, isn't it, Geoff? There probably will be another independence referendum eventually, don't you think? It is quite logical, since Scots are overwhelmingly pro-EU (I am not, by the way). |
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Oct-26-19
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi Count,
No idea what is happening. If England leave the E.U. and Scotland stays then they won't be allowed to trade with each other yet both depend heavily on each others trade. England will trade with the USA and will eventually become USA's 51st state. USA will get a Royal Family and England will get some decent chess players. A good swap. *** |
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Oct-26-19
 | | HeMateMe: <USA will get a Royal Family> we already have the Kennedys.
We also have the Mansons, Trumps and Gambinos, but those are different types of 'families.' |
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Oct-26-19
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Every piddling country has a president, You will have a King or Queen, proper royalty! In exchange England will borrow Caruana, Wes so and Nakamura for the Olympiad. I think America will benefit in the long run.
For one thing they will be taught how to spell chess terms correctly. Colour not Color.
Defence not Defense.
Analyse not Analyze
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Oct-26-19
| | HeMateMe: when you people learn how to drive on the right side of the road we just might <might> start to take you seriously... |
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Oct-26-19
 | | perfidious: C'mon: we have a self-proclaimed emperor on this site! Doncha think that's dang impressive? Far as English orthography in America goes, <Geoff>'s proposal would merely restore the status quo ante of a century or so ago. |
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Oct-27-19
 | | alexmagnus: <For one thing they will be taught how to spell chess terms correctly.> If we are about reversing language development, next let's return to English pronunciation before the Great Vowel Shift, so that reading English becomes easy again :D |
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Oct-27-19
| | HeMateMe: We had our Brexit vote in 1776 and there was no ambiguity about it, no delays. |
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| Oct-27-19 | | LameJokes: Despite Brexit, UK might not leave EU.
Scotland won’t leave UK either.
If anyone is leaving anything, it’s just one person. The PM of UK is repeatedly leaving his chair. |
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Oct-27-19
| | HeMateMe: I think Boris and Donald Trump could be in a fabulous sitcom together. The story would be about two middle aged bachelors who've lost their jobs and their money, both divorced, living in a cramped apartment in NYC or London, fielding life's daily challenges. They're both quite telegenic, this idea needs to be pitched to the BBC and American television! |
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| Oct-27-19 | | Count Wedgemore: <HMM> In the opening scene they meet at a London hairdresser (obviously they have the same hairdresser, so we've got that "plausibility in fiction" thing covered). After complimenting each other's haircuts, an unbreakable friendship is forged. You've got to pitch this idea to the big guns, ABC, NBC, etc. Go right ahead. |
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Oct-27-19
| | HeMateMe: Toupee Tango? Grumpy Old Traitors? Viagara Daze? Every winning sit com needs a great title, you just have to noodle around until you find something good. |
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| Oct-28-19 | | diceman: <HeMateMe:
We had our Brexit vote in 1776 and there was no ambiguity about it, no delays.> It's a shame you forgot why. |
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| Oct-29-19 | | Kurakotsaba: THIS IS NÒW THE RIGHT TIME TO LOBBY AND PURSUE VIGOROUSLY THE INCLUSION OF THE CHESS 960 aka Fischer Rambo Chess as qualification requirement for the CANDIDATES. ASAP. PRONTO. |
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Oct-29-19
 | | Diademas: <THIS IS NÒW THE RIGHT TIME TO LOBBY AND PURSUE VIGOROUSLY THE> ban on writing in all caps! |
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| Oct-29-19 | | Kurakotsaba: Chess 960, 👈☝️💪💪💪💪💪☝️👉 |
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| Oct-29-19 | | diceman: <Diademas:
<THIS IS NÒW THE RIGHT TIME TO LOBBY AND PURSUE VIGOROUSLY THE> ban on writing in all caps!>
no, no, never!!!! |
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| Oct-29-19 | | Pedro Fernandez: 𝟗𝟔𝟎 is an aberration <Kurakotsaba>. |
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| Oct-29-19 | | Pedro Fernandez: <Diademas> and <diceman>, in almost all of sites I visit in internet, write in capital letters is banned. |
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| Oct-29-19 | | WorstPlayerEver: Oh dear, it's Fischer Fluffy Chess again. |
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Oct-29-19
 | | AylerKupp: <<Pedro Fernandez> 960 is an aberration> I think that's a little harsh, it's just one person's opinion and there are many that feel that way. I think that it is better to call Fischer Random chess a.k.a. Chess 960, a "variant", a more neutral word that indicates that it is different to what we consider "normal" chess. When the rules for queen movement were changed in the late 15th century (so that the game became what we could call "standard" chess) this was considered a variant from chess that used the older piece move rules. Who knows, maybe in the future Fischer Random/Chess960 will be the standard and what we are playing now will be considered a variant. This Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...) is fun to read and claims that there are thousands of chess variants, and lists almost 200 of them. I just glanced at them briefly but the one that got my attention was "Charge of the Light Brigade". Both players have a king and 8 pawns but White has 3 queens and Black has 9 knights. Talk about a material imbalance! Personally I hope that this doesn't come to pass until after I do. If it does, what am I going to do with all my obsolete opening books? |
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