I've had two $1000 bets lose... So how much did I need this wager? Lol. If Komodolol and stocky draw by 3fold I'm seriously in the game and would like any winnings I may receive to be donated to the LM's in need foundation. My favourite charity.

As for all the competitors, good luck for the final 2 days.

< 12. kurtrichards 5,421
13. Kynas 5,301
14. Penguincw 5,020 >

Please note that after the final bet is paid off we will review the logfiles for last minute confirmations and then recompute the leaderboard before making the official announcement of winners.

I third that (or whatever)! <wordfunph> has been an excellent bookie this leg. Just when I thought <Switch>'s performance couldn't be matched (enter <wordfunph>). :)

In the meantime, here are the amount of cbs wagered this leg. Once again, these are only approximations. :)

<Laznicka vs. Rapport>

Total Wager: 14,394
# of events: 7
Juice: 432
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<FGP Baku>
Total Wager: 300,479
# of events: 83
Juice: 9,562
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<Oslo>
Total Wager: 3,323
# of events: 1
Juice: 127
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<WJCC>
Total Wager: 34,249
# of events: 19
Juice: 1,088
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<TCEC>
Total Wager: 200,725
# of events: 14
Juice: 7,355
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<Millionaire Chess Open>

Total Wager: 21,617
# of events: 9
Juice: 526
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<Unive>
Total Wager: 34,918
# of events: 10
Juice: 1,103
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<Tashkent>
Total Wager: 323,616
# of events: 82
Juice: 10,008
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<Chigorin Memorial>
Total Wager: 21,190
# of events: 6
Juice: 661
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<Senior Championship>

Total Wager: 10,084
# of events: 3
Juice: 396
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<WCC 2014>
Total Wager: 362,071
# of events: 30
Juice: 11,732
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<Petrosian Memorial>

Total Wager: 166,195
# of events: 25
Juice: 4,648
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<Ukrainian Championship>

Total Wager: 77,684
# of events: 12
Juice: 2,047
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<Aronian-Nakamura>
Total Wager: 57,078
# of events: 9
Juice: 2,021
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<Qatar>
Total Wager: 111,481
# of events: 18
Juice: 4,418
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<Russian Superfinal>

Total Wager: 151,338
# of events: 18
Juice: 4,155
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<Russian Superfinal (Women)>

Total Wager: 16,373
# of events: 3
Juice: 556
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<LCC>
Total Wager: 207,189
# of events: 25
Juice: 7,489
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<Beijing Blitz>
Total Wager: 13,820
# of events: 3
Juice: 469
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<Manila Open>
Total Wager: 16,798
# of events: 2
Juice: 425
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<Beijing Basque>
Total Wager: 19,421
# of events: 4
Juice: 752
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<Zadar Open>
Total Wager: 23,406
# of events: 5
Juice: 672
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<Al Ain>
Total Wager: 149,797
# of events: 19
Juice: 5,417

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Fall 2014
Total Wager: 2,337,246
# of events: 407
Juice: 76,059

Note: For juice, if the 5% from losing pools is a decimal number, I rounded down <not> in favour of the house.

< Total Wager: 2,337,246
# of events: 407
Juice: 76,059 >

Damn. Let's compare that to <Switch>'s trial:

< Total Wager: 1,989,905
# of events: 572
Juice: 61,078 >

(1) TIMER (24,618)
(2) Touch of Knight (23,672)
(3) wallytherhino (13,202)
(4) scout118 (12,289)
(5) Golden Executive (8,747)
(6) shoshonte (8,082)
(7) SwitchingQuylthulg (7,290)
(8) bubuli55 (6,554)
(9) technical draw (6,503)
(10) dakgootje (6,330)
(11) Beholder (6,297)
(12) Kynas (6,125)

<Touch of Knight> too close :) congrats!

cheers to our friend <Golden Executive> to wrest #5 from nowhere.

special thanks to <SwitchingQuylthulg> for helping me during my trying moments and to <chessgames.com> for the continuous support in running the contest.

<Touch of Knight> Thanks. I was leading most of the leg and was playing it very safe the last month or so (years ago I used to lead in some legs and end with nothing to show for it usually around last place) but right at the end you put me under some considerable pressure with that late surge- I had to balance playing safe being in the lead with making a steady chessbuck increase to maximise likelihood of winning which was tricky.

- Congrats to <Switch> for qualifying in one go, and also to <dakgootje> for qualifying 3 times (Winter, Summer and Fall).

- Congrats to <Kynas> for pulling away from the rest of the contenders with a last minute run (grr).

- Congrats to <Sneaky>, who I swear was playing (Chessgames Bookie chessforum), but seems to have disappeared from the standings.

- Congrats to all the other qualifiers, in which I did not have anything special to say. :)

- And of course, this leg wouldn't be possible without the contributions of <wordfunph>. Once again, you were amazing.

In case anyone wants to see the full final standings, and <cg> doesn't archive it, just view a link such as http://web.archive.org/web/20141228... (or any similar).

Good luck to all in the Championship leg!

Speaking of the Championship leg, I count 27 qualifiers (could be wrong) for this championship, even though there were only 3 legs. The second smallest championship to date was the first one, where there were also 3 legs, but 28 users, and no extra qualifiers. Say, would it hurt to squeeze in 2 more runner-ups from this leg?

Just kidding, even if I did have 10K, I probably wouldn't put it to good use. However, during this Championship leg, I'm going to do a test: I'm going to wager the minimum bet on every single outcome, and see if I end up with above 1K, or below 1K (or perhaps back where I started). Any predictions (I'm predicting above)?