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May-14-07
 | | WannaBe: ♔ Handi Capper's Corner! ♔
Get you a head start on Wednesday's second half tournament games. Round 6 - Wed, May 16
Nisipeanu - Toplalov: Topalov have a lead of +2 -1 =2, but Topalov lost the first game of MTel with white against Nisipeanu. Sasikiran - Adams: This will be their 3rd meeting, and Sasikiran will have white for the first time against Adams. Previous meetings had Adams winning in 2002, and a draw in their earlier MTel game. Kamsky - Mamedyarov: This, too, will be their 3rd meeting, and Kamsky will have white for the first time against Mamedyarov. Previous meetings had Kamsky winning in 2006 Wijk aan Zee, and Mamedyarov winning in their earlier MTel game. |
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| May-14-07 | | Whitehat1963: <Chessgames Bookie> How about another round of longest and shortest games of the round, etc.? |
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May-15-07
 | | Chessgames Bookie: We're now taking bets on the longest and shortest games from round 6 of the Mtel Masters tournament. Mtel Masters: Rd 6: Longest Game
Mtel Masters: Rd 6: Shortest Game |
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May-15-07
| | WannaBe: Bonus Stats for the Handi Cappers!!
Player/# of moves/average per game
Nisipeanu, 182, 36.4
Topalov, 202, 40.4
Sasikiran, 203, 40.6
Mamedyarov, 206, 41.2
Kamsky, 268, 53.6*
Adams, 291, 58.2*
* Kamsky-Adams played a 94 moves marathon, if you take that game out, Kamsky averages 43.5 moves a game, and Adams averages 49.25 moves a game. |
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| May-15-07 | | MostlyAverageJoe: <Chessgames Bookie: We're taking bets on GM Shulman's next move in his game vs The World.> I noticed twice in the recent "Yuri Shulman vs The World" events that the betting closed 24 hours too early and then was re-opened (as, e.g., today). Can you please fix whatever bug is responsible for this annoying misbehavior? |
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May-16-07
| | WannaBe: ♔ Handi C(r)apper's Corner!! ♔
That's what happens when you lose every single bet for Round 6... =(Round 7 - Thu, May 17
Kamsky - Nisipeanu: This will be their second meeting, in the earlier game at MTel, it was a draw. Mamedyarov - Sasikiran: This too, will be their second meeting, in the earlier game at MTel, it was a draw. Adams - Topalov: Adams have an over-all lead of +12 -8 =18, when Adams is white, he is +7 -3 =9 against Topalov. Their earlier game at MTel resulted in a draw. |
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| May-16-07 | | Davolni: How can we cancel the bets that are already placed?? thanks. |
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| May-16-07 | | protean: <Davolni> You can't. |
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May-17-07
| | WannaBe: ♔ Handi Capper's Corner!! ♔
Round 8 - Fri, May 18
Nisipeanu - Adams: Adams defeated Nisipeanu in their first ever game in the earlier round of MTel. Topalov - Mamedyarov: These 2 are tied at +2 -2 =1, when Topalov have white, he is +1 -0 =1 against Mamedyarov. In their earlier MTel game, Mamedyarov won. Sasikiran - Kamsky: In their first ever game, Sasikiran beat Kamsky, it was an earlier round game of MTel. |
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| May-17-07 | | technical draw: Hey, please up date the standings. I should be in the top 15 (net worth 2518) instead of networth 1,111) |
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| May-18-07 | | technical draw: Yeah!.. Tks Bookie, I'm on the leaderboard at last! The world is coming to an end!! |
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May-18-07
| | WannaBe: ♔ Handi Capper's Corner!! ♔
This will carry us through rounds 9 and 10.
<Round 9 - Sat, May 19 > Sasikiran - Nisipeanu: Nisipeanu leads it with +2 -1 =3, in their earlier MTel game, they drew. Kamsky - Topalov: Topalov is still undefeated against Kamsky, with the score of +4 -0 =3, they drew in their earlier meeting. Mamedyarov - Adams: They are both undefeated against each other, +0 -0 =2. <Round 10 - Sun, May 20> Nisipeanu - Mamedyarov: Nisipeanu leads it with +1 -0 =6, they drew in the earlier MTel game. Adams - Kamsky: Adams leads it with +3 -2 =4, they drew their earlier game at MTel. Topalov - Sasikiran: Third meeting between the two, Topalov leads it +1 -0 =1, their earlier game resulted with Topalov winning with black. |
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| May-18-07 | | Tomlinsky: Dear <Chessbookie>, I hope the new found lifestyle based on my lack of skills as a gambler is working out to your full satisfaction. When you can spare a moment I would like to point out that there appears to be an error that happens whenever I place a bet with your good self. It goes something like this: 1) I place a bet. 2) Sometime later the lettering on my betting slip changes to 'Discard Ticket' whereupon 3) I have to start and repeat the whole process again from the beginning. Could you look into this please? Thank you kindly & regards. |
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May-18-07
| | WannaBe: I had it correct for round 8's pick 3, one game black won, one game white won, and one game draw. Unfortunately, I got the ordering incorrect. =( |
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| May-18-07 | | technical draw: <Tomlinsky, Wannabe> Tell it to the Chaplain. |
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| May-19-07 | | technical draw: Opps! My last remark cost me the leader board. Sorry guys, carry on. |
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May-20-07
| | Chessgames Bookie: Regarding Mtel Masters: Quinella The winning quinella is Topalov-Sasikran, because Sasikran placed 2nd. This is confirmed by the results page http://www.mtelmasters.com/en/resul... from the official site, which indicates Sasikiran is the official 2nd place finisher. This is also consistent with the tiebreak protocol, which states that the #1 tiebreaking criterion is the number of wins, and Sasikiran has 3 wins whereas all other 2nd place finishers have 2. I just thought I had better explain this in advance, since it is somewhat confusing. |
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May-22-07
 | | Chnebelgrind: <Chessgames Bookie> world youth stars tournament: <The "OTHER" ticket includes Safarli, Zhigalko, Lintchevski, Popov, Gorovykh, and Bindrich> You forgot Yuri Kuzubov! |
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| May-23-07 | | technical draw: My apology got me back on the leaderboard which proves that my mother was right. |
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May-23-07
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: <Chessgames Bookie> Is it considered cheating to take an infinite amount of loan by constantly pressing the 'back' button of my Mozilla, thus always getting back to where the Loanshark offers me 100 bucks? |
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| May-23-07 | | technical draw: <SwitchingQuylthug> I already tried that. It only works once and then the loanshark wises up and threatens to bust your knee caps if you try it again. |
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May-23-07
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: lol :) Repaying a negative amount of loan doesn't work either... anything that does? ;-) |
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| May-23-07 | | technical draw: Nope. The chess bookie is taking advice from Johnny "3 fingers" Scungili and is running a smooth operation. Of course you can try cheating if you can eat without teeth, but I just prefer to play fair and square and live a long life. |
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May-23-07
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: oh, well... seems I must be content with my -1,236 bucks then ;-) |
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May-23-07
 | | Sneaky: This has been by far my worse ChessBookie leg yet. Totally creamed by some bad luck early in the season. |
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