May-09-13
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| Nov-08-13 | | waustad: His win today against Jan Smeets gave Austria an unexpected win over the Netherlands in the ETCC. |
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| May-26-14 | | waustad: He's having a good result so far in the Mitropa cup, with 2 draws and a win, all against higher rated opponents. Perhaps he can get another GM norm here. |
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| May-29-14 | | waustad: After 7 rounds he's still at a performance rating of 2638. He has 2 wins and 5 draws, all against higher rated players. The ramaining teams to play are Slovakia B and the Czech Republic. He's been on either board 1 or 2 each round so far. Of course, the Mitropa Cup doesn't get the absolute top players from each country. Navara and Ragger may play this week, but it will be in France at the top 12 event. There is also a big event in Hungary now, which weakens some other teams. |
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| May-31-14 | | waustad: He was still over 2600 for the first 8 rounds. He may be able to call it an 8 round GM norm. He would need at least one more norm after this, of enough games to get the total to 27, and he'd have to get his rating up to 2500. |
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| May-31-14 | | waustad: I may have remembered the rules wrong. I'm no lawyer, but looking at the FIDE_NormRules pdf again, the 8 game norm may not exist in this case. |
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| Sep-19-14 | | waustad: He and Siegfried Baumegger are accompanying and coaching 10 Austrian players at the World Youth Championships in South Aftica. The players participating are Florian Mesaros (BU14), Patrick Gelbenegger (BU14), Chiara Polterauer (MU14), Jasmin-Denise Schloffer (MU14), Venla Lymysalo (MU14), Valentin Dragnev (BU16), Denise Trippold (MU16), Christoph Menezes (BU18), Maximilian Ofner (BU18) and Laura Hiebler (MU18). |
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May-23-15
 | | Penguincw: Congrats to 43rd seed IM Robert Kreisl (2420) for upsetting top seed GM V Onischuk at the Zalakaros Open in Round 3. He would finish with 5/9 (+4,-3,=2) and a gain of 20.6 rating points (2420 -> 2440.6). Unfortunately, his TPR was 2598, just short of a GM norm. |
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| May-24-15 | | waustad: He came maddeningly close to another GM norm, with a performance rating of 2598: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr164...
He has some GM level performances, but has been somewhat inconsistent so he hasn't approached the necessary 2500 rating. |
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| Oct-02-15 | | BIDMONFA: Robert Kreisl KREISL, Robert
http://www.bidmonfa.com/kreisl_robe...
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| Oct-02-15 | | waustad: He's had a good start at the Baku Open, being tied for first after 3 rounds. |
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| Dec-17-15 | | waustad: He is now at +3 after 7 rounds at the Zadar Open, so he's doing better than his rating. next round will be tough though, as he is paired with GM Evgeny Postny, the highest rated player in the tournament. So far all 5 Austrians playing in the A group have gained some elo. http://chess-results.com/tnr192835.... |
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| Jun-18-16 | | waustad: He'll be top board for the Austrians at the Mitropa Cup, beginning tomorrow in Prague. http://chess-results.com/tnr223719.... |
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| Jun-18-16 | | waustad: I suppose GM norms are possible for either Kreisl or for Andreas Diermair, but this is a regional team tournament not a continental one, so the FIDE special rules don't apply. I would guess the top two boards will play until a norm seems unlikely before being rested. |
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| Apr-15-17 | | waustad: After 6 rounds at the GM norm tournament in Slovakia, Kreisl has a tpr of 2600, so he has a decent shot at another GM norm. http://chess-results.com/tnr272171.... |
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| Sep-18-17 | | waustad: The Mitropa cup is going again, this time in Hungary: http://event.chess.hu/mitropa2017/ http://www.chess-results.com/tnr302... |
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