<chessmoron> heroically rose from his sickbed to return to the helm of our contest. Concerned doctors warned him that a man with a fever of 98.7 should be very careful, but <chessmoron> brushed off their concerns to the thunderous applause of the contestants. Despite the outpouring of sympathy for that act of bravery, <Winky> couldn't resist pointing out that <cm> had made a scoring mistake. There's something comforting in knowing that some things never change.

Back to our contest, <DerDiemer> has made a strong charge to the top of the Moves Ranker, and shares the lead in #1 Ranker with <CountWedgemore>. Early leader <Robin01> appeared to get a bit comfortable and was shut out that round but still maintained a lead in 2 Rankers. To the crowd's immense relief, <OCF> finally scored a point and won't be able to whine about it any more. <OCF> attributed his success to a scorekeeper not confusing him what round it is.

In other news, <Diademas> played the Pity Card, claiming some special mistreatment by <OCF> that <hasn't even happened yet!> <wordfunph>, embarrassed by having scored only one point, is blaming his poor performance on everyone else having beginner's luck. <Penguincw> has been carrying on the last week about private messaging, which the site has never had, and apparently <Pengo> is glad the site doesn’t have private messaging because he doesn’t want private messaging, so consider him one vote against private messaging because the site has never had private messaging and now is not the time to start up private messaging even thought there are no plans to institute private messaging because the membership doesn’t want private messaging and the new admins don’t have time to start private messaging. <CountWedgemore> is suffering from some sort of delusion that just because he made up a user name on a chess site that includes the name “Count”, that he is in fact a real life Count, with vast land holdings encompassing half of Europe. <juan31> wised up and got his picks in like 12 hours ahead of time so that he didn’t get them in 12 seconds late and have them disqualified by <Winky>.

LOL! Here is a picture of me after I posted my round 3 predictions:

<Anand-Carlsen, 1/2-1/2 in 54 moves.>

Exact, 10 points: []
Under, 7 points: [['OhioChessFan', '1/2-1/2', '50']]

2nd Under, 6 points: [['WinKing', '1/2-1/2', '43']]

3rd Under, 5 points: [['alfamikewhiskey', '1/2-1/2', '42']]

Over, 3 points: []
2nd Over, 2 points: []
3rd Over, 1 point1: []

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<Caruana-Nakamura, 1-0 in 49 moves.>

Exact, 10 points: []
Under, 7 points: [['chessmoron', '1-0', '43']]

2nd Under, 6 points: [['Golden Executive', '1-0', '35']]

3rd Under, 5 points: [['alfamikewhiskey', '1-0', '34']]

Over, 3 points: []
2nd Over, 2 points: []
3rd Over, 1 point1: []

===

<Grischuk-MVL, 1/2-1/2 in 25 moves.>

Exact, 10 points: []
Under, 7 points: []
2nd Under, 6 points: []
3rd Under, 5 points: []
Over, 3 points: [['wordfunph', '1/2-1/2', '32']]

2nd Over, 2 points: [['Count Wedgemore', '1/2-1/2', '33'], ['DerDiemer', '1/2-1/2', '33']]

3rd Over, 1 point1: [['Robin01', '1/2-1/2', '35']]

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<Mamedyarov-Aronian, 1/2-1/2 in 24 moves.>

Exact, 10 points: []
Under, 7 points: []
2nd Under, 6 points: []
3rd Under, 5 points: []
Over, 3 points: [['offramp', '1/2-1/2', '31']]

2nd Over, 2 points: [['lostemperor', '1/2-1/2', '32']]

3rd Over, 1 point1: [['DerDiemer', '1/2-1/2', '33']]

===

<So-Karjakin, 1/2-1/2 in 48 moves.>

Exact, 10 points: []
Under, 7 points: [['OhioChessFan', '1/2-1/2', '43']]

2nd Under, 6 points: [['chessmoron', '1/2-1/2', '41']]

3rd Under, 5 points: [['Robin01', '1/2-1/2', '40']]

Perfect # moves predictions for this round goes to

NONE

Highest scores in the Bonus Ranker: 10 points: <alfamikewhiskey>

Results:

Moves Ranker - Through <Round 4>

Score, UserID, Over, Under, Exact

24, OhioChessFan, 0, 2, 1
23, DerDiemer, 1, 0, 2
21, chessmoron, 0, 3, 0
20, Robin01, 0, 0, 2
17, offramp, 1, 2, 0
14, Diademas, 0, 2, 0
14, WinKing, 0, 2, 0
10, Penguincw, 0, 0, 1
9, Count Wedgemore, 3, 0, 0
3, wordfunph, 1, 0, 0
0, alfamikewhiskey, 0, 0, 0
0, AlphaXerox, 0, 0, 0
0, Golden Executive, 0, 0, 0
0, juan31, 0, 0, 0
0, lostemperor, 0, 0, 0

===

Bonus Ranker - Through <Round 4>

Score, UserID, 3-Over, 2-Over, 3-Under, 2-Under

31, Robin01, 1, 1, 2, 3
29, alfamikewhiskey, 1, 1, 4, 1
23, Count Wedgemore, 0, 1, 3, 1
22, chessmoron, 2, 4, 0, 2
22, lostemperor, 0, 2, 0, 3
20, Golden Executive, 2, 0, 0, 3
20, juan31, 0, 2, 2, 1
14, WinKing, 2, 0, 0, 2
13, DerDiemer, 1, 3, 0, 1
13, Diademas, 0, 1, 1, 1
12, AlphaXerox, 2, 2, 0, 1
8, Penguincw, 0, 1, 0, 1
7, offramp, 0, 1, 1, 0
2, OhioChessFan, 0, 1, 0, 0
1, wordfunph, 1, 0, 0, 0

===

Moves+Bonus Ranker - Through <Round 4>

Score, UserID

51, Robin01
43, chessmoron
36, DerDiemer
32, Count Wedgemore
29, alfamikewhiskey
28, WinKing
27, Diademas
26, OhioChessFan
24, offramp
22, lostemperor
20, juan31
20, Golden Executive
18, Penguincw
12, AlphaXerox
4, wordfunph

===

Moves Ranker (# of 1st place UNDER/OVER) - Through <Round 43>

Score,UserID

The crowd was stunned as <OhioChessFan> roared to the lead in Moves Ranker and a share of the lead in #1 Ranker. Just 2 rounds ago, he was a total embarrassment to the contest, but now is the talk of the town. He is joined in the lead for #1 Ranker by <chessmoron> <CountWedgemore> <offramp> and <DerDiemer>. <Robin01> still leads 2 rankers but the lead in both is shrinking rapidly.

In other news, investigative journalists are looking into the <AlphaXerox> mystery as they joined the site and then 3 days later played all 3 contests. In another mystery, "Where in the World is <Switch>?" has been the thought on everyone's mind. <Diademas> has made his entries to this contest rather well, unlike the embarrassing mess he made of things in <lostemperor's> place. Taking a cue from <wordfunph> here, <le> blamed his bad showing at his place on everyone else having beginner's luck. In a bizarre event, <chessmoron> stood in the middle of the arena floor and yelled at everyone to hurry up and get their picks in twenty (20!) hours before they were due.