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Cairns Cup (2020) The 2nd Cairns Cup was a 10-player round-robin tournament held from 7-16 February 2020 in the Saint Louis Chess Club, Missouri, USA. Rest day: 12 February. The players received 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 more minutes till the end of the game, with a 30-second increment starting from move 1. No draw offers were allowed before move 30. The top three finishers would receive $45,000, $35,000, and $25,000, respectively. Chief organizer: Tony D Rich. Chief arbiter: Anastasia Sorokina. Humpy Koneru won with 6/9, ahead of world champion Ju Wenjun. Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 Koneru 2580 * ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 6 2 Ju Wenjun 2583 ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 5½ 3 Muzychuk 2552 1 ½ * 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 5 4 Kosteniuk 2504 0 0 1 * ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 5 5 Lagno 2552 ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 4½ 6 Harika 2518 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 0 4½ 7 Dzagnidze 2515 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * 0 1 1 4 8 Krush 2422 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 * 0 0 4 9 Yip 2412 0 1 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 * 1 4 10 Gunina 2461 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 1 0 * 2½ Official site: https://www.uschesschamps.com/2020-... Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/202... ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/cairn... Chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t... TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew... FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament... Previous: Cairns Cup (2019)  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 45  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Koneru vs C Yip 1-0 40 2020 Cairns Cup E73 King's Indian 2. M Muzychuk vs Ju Wenjun   ½-½ 40 2020 Cairns Cup C42 Petrov Defense 3. Kosteniuk vs I Krush   ½-½ 51 2020 Cairns Cup B22 Sicilian, Alapin 4. Lagno vs D Harika   ½-½ 37 2020 Cairns Cup B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 5. N Dzagnidze vs V Gunina 1-0 42 2020 Cairns Cup A45 Queen's Pawn Game 6. M Muzychuk vs Koneru 1-0 34 2020 Cairns Cup C43 Petrov, Modern Attack 7. D Harika vs N Dzagnidze   ½-½ 31 2020 Cairns Cup E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3 8. Ju Wenjun vs I Krush   ½-½ 74 2020 Cairns Cup D26 Queen's Gambit Accepted 9. V Gunina vs Kosteniuk 0-1 40 2020 Cairns Cup C77 Ruy Lopez 10. C Yip vs Lagno   0-1 31 2020 Cairns Cup C45 Scotch Game 11. Koneru vs Ju Wenjun   ½-½ 22 2020 Cairns Cup A21 English 12. I Krush vs V Gunina   0-1 52 2020 Cairns Cup E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 13. N Dzagnidze vs C Yip   1-0 45 2020 Cairns Cup A00 Uncommon Opening 14. Kosteniuk vs D Harika   0-1 46 2020 Cairns Cup C78 Ruy Lopez 15. Lagno vs M Muzychuk ½-½ 30 2020 Cairns Cup C42 Petrov Defense 16. M Muzychuk vs N Dzagnidze   ½-½ 48 2020 Cairns Cup B65 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...Be7 Defense, 9...Nxd4 17. Koneru vs Lagno   ½-½ 30 2020 Cairns Cup D85 Grunfeld 18. Ju Wenjun vs V Gunina 1-0 59 2020 Cairns Cup C70 Ruy Lopez 19. D Harika vs I Krush   ½-½ 33 2020 Cairns Cup B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation 20. C Yip vs Kosteniuk 0-1 52 2020 Cairns Cup C43 Petrov, Modern Attack 21. I Krush vs C Yip 0-1 47 2020 Cairns Cup A00 Uncommon Opening 22. V Gunina vs D Harika   1-0 38 2020 Cairns Cup A07 King's Indian Attack 23. Kosteniuk vs M Muzychuk   1-0 40 2020 Cairns Cup C80 Ruy Lopez, Open 24. N Dzagnidze vs Koneru 0-1 64 2020 Cairns Cup D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 25. Lagno vs Ju Wenjun 0-1 43 2020 Cairns Cup B30 Sicilian  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 45    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 7 OF 7 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-20-20    JimNorCal: beatgiant for the win! That was funny... Feb-21-20    AylerKupp: <<HeMateMe> AK, are you a self-hating fatty?> A fatty, yes. Self-hating, no. What would be the point of that? But at least I don't live in a fantasy world where my self-pride and ignorance makes me make decisions that I then delude myself by thinking of them as facts. <... claim that, because the guy in the next cubicle gorges himself at McDonalds every lunch hour yet still has a size 32 waist that the game is fixed, you can't be thin, and just give up.> I do recognize that some people are fortunate that an increased caloric intake does not cause them to "blimp up" as you called it. But others are not as fortunate and have great difficulty in both losing weight and maintaining the weight loss. And even though I recognize that I will never be thin (I have never been), that does not mean that I will not strive to reach and maintain a healthier weight, as long as it does not damage my health. <you have to put your ass on a 2,000 calorie a day diet and <stay> on it. No excuses.> Your simplistic attitude continues to amaze me. For many people, because of the many factors I've mentioned, are not able to lose weight and maintain that loss in spite of a 2,000 or lower calorie diet because their metabolism adjusts. That would not be an excuse to fail to keep trying additional means to accomplish your goals. It must be wonderful to be able to live through life with simplistic opinions and solutions. Here's another quote for you: "The answers to life's difficult questions are complex. Some of the answers are real, but most are imaginary." Feb-21-20    AylerKupp: <<beatgiant> This weight loss thread is starting to get old.> Sorry about that. But ignorance, stubbornness, an unwillingness to face facts and educate ourselves are sad things to see, particularly when you feel the need to pontificate about it. Thankfully I have never smoked (I might have been thinner if I had) so I can't post any half-baked theories on how to quit smoking. I'll try to follow <Pedro Fernandez>'s suggestion and close my beak. It's hard though, about as hard as shortening the length of my posts. Feb-21-20    diceman: <HeMateMe: all of the heavy smokers from the USSR championship are dead.> Were they <heavy> in weight? <heavy> in quantity? <heavy> in both? (Hey, as long as we're here) Feb-21-20    moronovich: <Your simplistic attitude continues to amaze me.> Mee to. My deepest respect for you,and everyone ells who try to fight the calories <AylerKupp> ! And best of luck for the continued process. Btw : Have you tried the old trick about eating slowlier,zenstyle!? Feb-21-20    Tiggler: <And where did "we" learn that it was a bad idea? Non-medical opinions of crackpots on the Internet, possibly the same anti-vaccine crackpots?> Ok I looked it up here:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf... and here:https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardi.... The first has the 2013 advice and the second has the 2019 advice. They confirm what I claimed: For those with LDL-C >70 but <190 mg/dl, no diabetes, age >40 <75, (a high percentage of the population), and ASCDV risk >7.5% statin treatment was recommended without reservation. In 2019, however only if ASCDV risk > 20% was that the case. For the group in the range ASCDV risk of 7.5%-20% the clear recommendation is only given limited cases. That is a change of recommendation for statins downward for a class of 10s of millions of people in USA alone Feb-21-20    Tiggler: Of course you will never find a panel of MDs that admit they changed their mind: they are always right. It takes an astute medical journalist to point out the change. Feb-22-20    kkshethin: Congratulations to Humpy Coneru for winning. Feb-22-20    kkshethin: It is surprising, no one seems to notice it is cairns cup tournament page Feb-22-20    diceman: <kkshethin: It is surprising, no one seems to notice it is cairns cup tournament page> That said, the discussions have been "weighty" in content. Feb-24-20    Jambow: <HeMateMe: all of the heavy smokers from the USSR championship are dead.> Everybody from the 19th century smokers or not are dead also, seems to be rather unavoidable... Feb-24-20    Jambow: My uncle was having trouble losing weight until he tried Amputrim. Cut off a limb all your friends will notice and *you will never gain it back. *does not apply to salamanders... Feb-24-20    Jambow: <AylerKupp> Burns two thousand calories a day just from typing in the forum here ;0] Probably has a bucket next to his chair. Feb-24-20    Jambow: <Throw 40,000 darts at the wall, one is bound to stick.> That he remembers throwing that particular dart at all is impressive enough... Feb-24-20    AylerKupp: <<Jambow> Burns two thousand calories a day just from typing in the forum here.> I didn't know that, thanks for the suggestion. I'll have to start typing more and I'm sure that my resulting weight loss will then be even more impressive. And, like you, I don't even have to think about what I post. I'll just start cutting and pasting ''The Defense', by Vladimir Nabokov, all 196 pages. By the time I'm done I'll have reached my weight goal. And, since it is a chess-related novel, it can't be considered off-topic. Feb-24-20    Check It Out: Cut and paste wont do; you have to *type* to burn those calories. Try War and Peace. Feb-24-20    jith1207: <since it is a chess-related novel, it can't be considered off-topic.> Ahem, since when that was ever a consideration? Feb-24-20    jith1207: Imagine even a calorie spent for every word typed by a keyboard warrior... We would all have been sleek like a Bishop. Feb-24-20    jith1207: Like a "light" squared Bishop! Feb-24-20    jith1207: More like a light rectangled Bishop. Feb-24-20    Jambow: <AylerKupp> Cutting and pasting is like getting a ride on your morning run that will never do... I assumed it was all original content not plagiarism, please steal from a better source in the future... Just kidding man don't take it too serious i don't. ;0] Feb-25-20    MordimerChess: I managed to record 7 videos of Cairns Cup 2020. Prague festival disrupted me a bit... but here you go: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li... Enjoy :) Feb-25-20    AylerKupp: <<Check It Out> Try War and Peace.> Funny, I initially put down 'War and Peace' in my post but I thought that since it wasn't chess-related I should instead reference a chess novel to partially, very partially, make the post somewhat on-topic. And when one thinks of long novels 'War and Peace' immediately come to mind, but it is nowhere near the longest one. Knowing that I am sometimes taken to task (and rightly so) for the lengths of my posts, I did some research on the longest novels. In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_... 'War and Peace' is listed as "only" the 29th longer at "only" 587,287 words, although I'm not sure if that count is for the original version in Russian or for an English translation. Not that it matters. According to that list the longest novel is the 'Devta', written by Mohiuddin Nawab in Urdu and consisting of 11,206,310 words and 56 volumes. It was started in 1977 and finished in 2010 (33 years!). Now, that's dedication! But other reasonably well-known (at least to me) novels are also longer than 'War and Peace'. Marcel Proust's 'À la recherche du temps perdu' (somehow usually translated as 'Remembrance of things past') is #7 at 1,267,069 words, Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables' is #23 at 655,478 and Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' is #24 at 645,000 words. 'À la recherche du temps perdu' is the Guinness world record holder as the longest novel. The things you learn by visiting <chessgames.com>! Feb-25-20    AylerKupp: <<jith1207> Ahem, since when that was ever a consideration?> You are, of course, absolutely right. I suppose that I should have stuck with 'War and Peace'. Or, given that this is the Cairns Cup page, perhaps more appropriate would be ' 'Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady' at #11 and 943,300 words or 'Women and Men' at #14 and 850,000 words. Feb-26-20    Jambow: <AylerKupp> I was more expecting Shakespeare "Much Ado About Nothing" a comedy no less. Carry on until the cows come home... 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