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OhioChessFan
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______________ Moves Prediction Contest

<Main Focus>: Predicting how many moves in a game for each pairing.

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[player]-[player] [result] [# of MOVES]

==4 Different Scoring Methods==

Standard Moves Ranker (1st place-Over[3pts], 1st place-Under [7pts], Exact [10pts])

Bonus Ranker (3rd place-Over[1pts],2nd place-Over[2pts],3rd place-Under [5pts], 2nd place-Under [6pts]

Standard Moves/Bonus Ranker [Add all to together]

1st place Ranker [how many 1st place you have in Standard Moves Ranker]

For example:

<Note: Participants 3, 4, and 5 are predicated on nobody scoring an exact as Participant 2 did. If someone hits an exact, the closest score under and over will score the points for second place.>

Actual Game: [player]-[player] 0-1 45

Participant 1: [player]-[player] 1/2 45
Participant 2: [player]-[player] 0-1 45
Participant 3: [player]-[player] 0-1 44
Participant 4: [player]-[player] 0-1 43
Participant 5: [player]-[player] 0-1 46

Participant 1: No points even though 45 is correct. Results must be correct. If Result is wrong and moves # is correct...you get no points whatsoever

Participant 2: 10 pts rewarded for correct Result/moves #

Participant 3: 7 pts rewarded for closest under (1st-Under) to 45 moves

Participant 4: 6 pts rewarded for the 2nd closest under (2nd-Under) to 45 moves.

Participant 5: 3 pts rewarded closest OVER(1st-OVER) to 45 moves.

Again, the description of Participant 3, 4, and 5 are based on there being no exact prediction as made by Participant 2.

<IF> there is an exact or an under closest, the highest scoring over participant will be 2nd over. The second closest over will be 3rd over. The <ONLY> time there will be a first over is if there is no exact or under winner.

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   OhioChessFan has kibitzed 49377 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Nov-23-25 M Fox vs H Ridout, 1951 (replies)
 
OhioChessFan: Very good pun. Black rode out to victory. White missed a couple chances to open the position with f5.
 
   Nov-23-25 Kibitzer's Café (replies)
 
OhioChessFan: A flock of larks is an exaltation.
 
   Nov-22-25 Miles vs Andersson, 1980
 
OhioChessFan: Offbeat opening, I didn't have a clue what was going on. Miles crushed the h file.
 
   Nov-22-25 Chessgames - Music (replies)
 
OhioChessFan: Four best harmony songs I know: Blackbyrds-Walking in Rhythm https://youtu.be/Vxg-a8a2UuY?si=cph... Beach Boys-Sloop John B https://youtu.be/nSAoEf1Ib58?si=nS6... Eagles-Seven Bridges Road https://youtu.be/73x16ne6auo?si=NVC... Earth Wind and Fire-September ...
 
   Nov-21-25 Chessgames - Politics (replies)
 
OhioChessFan: Best singer in a band is Freddie Mercury. Best woman singer in a band is Grace Slick. Best singer ever is Sam Cooke. Best female ever is Aretha Franklin. Quick takes on some others mentioned: Dylan is painfully bad. Sinatra is off key 75% of the time. Jim Croce had the best ...
 
   Nov-21-25 S J Stevens vs Gracie, 1878
 
OhioChessFan: White to make his 18th move would be a decent Tuesday puzzle.
 
   Nov-21-25 A Niyibizi vs Cheda, 2014 (replies)
 
OhioChessFan: Amusing pun. Patience paid off.
 
   Nov-19-25 W Hug vs Korchnoi, 1978 (replies)
 
OhioChessFan: 18. Ne4 opened up the middle to Black's Queen and LSB. 18. Nb1 was fine.
 
   Nov-18-25 S P Sethuraman vs C Anto, 2025
 
OhioChessFan: <redundant> I never noticed that. I had 5 semesters of college German so I have a basic knowledge of the language. I guess the different languages of "time" in the same sentence render it acceptable. Monty Python just doesn't work for me. I like maybe 10% of their stuff.
 
   Nov-14-25 McShane vs I Samunenkov, 2025
 
OhioChessFan: Nice analysis from Mikhail Golubev https://www.chess.com/blog/MikhailG...
 
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Moves Prediction Contest

Kibitzer's Corner
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Jan-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp:
Round 12:

Carlsen - Duda 1-0 56
Ding - Anand 1/2 33
Vidit - Rapport 1/2 41
Van Foreest - Mamedyarov 1/2 41
Fedoseev - Kramnik 1/2 35
Shankland - Nepomniachtchi 0-1 30
Radjabov - Giri 1/2 29

Jan-26-19  WinKing: <<WinKing> Post the results for tomorrow. Thanks.>

Can't do it. Busy.

Jan-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: Round 12
Carlsen - Duda 1-0 41
Ding - Anand 1/2 42
Vidit - Rapport 1/2 43
Van Foreest - Mamedyarov 0-1 44
Fedoseev - Kramnik 1/2 35
Shankland - Nepomniachtchi 1/2 40
Radjabov - Giri 1/2 32

Round 13
Giri - Carlsen 1/2 43
Nepomniachtchi - Radjabov 1/2 35
Kramnik - Shankland 1-0 45
Mamedyarov - Fedoseev 1-0 45
Rapport - Van Foreest 1-0 45
Anand - Vidit 1/2 35
Duda - Ding 1/2 40

Jan-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: I <love> when the recap material writes itself...
Jan-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: Try not to scream, but I'll do the results.
Jan-26-19  alfamikewhiskey: Round 12:

Carlsen - Duda 1-0 45
Ding - Anand 1/2 35
Vidit - Rapport 1/2 35
Van Foreest - Mamedyarov 1/2 20
Fedoseev - Kramnik 1/2 24
Shankland - Nepomniachtchi 1/2 24
Radjabov - Giri 1/2 35

Jan-26-19  WinKing: Games have started.
Jan-26-19  WinKing: Our picks for Rd.12 are posted in my forum.
Jan-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: ♔ Tata Steel 2019: <Round 11> Result ♔

<Carlsen-Duda, 1-0 in 71 moves.>
Exact, 10 points: []
Under, 7 points: offramp, 1-0, 56
2nd Under, 6 points: bubuli55, 1-0, 55
3rd Under, 5 points: DerDiemer, 1-0, 51
Over, 3 points: []
2nd Over, 2 points: []
3rd Over, 1 point1: []
===

<Ding-Anand, 1/2 in 41 moves.>
Exact, 10 points: []
Under, 7 points: [alfamikewhiskey, 1/2, 35, chessmoron, 1/2, 35] 2nd Under, 6 points: [WinKing, 1/2, 34]
3rd Under, 5 points: [offramp, 1/2, 33]
Over, 3 points: []
2nd Over, 2 points: [lostinspace, 1/2, 42]
3rd Over, 1 point1: [juniper anole, 1/2, 44]
===

<Vidit-Rapport, 1/2 in 41 moves.>
Exact, 10 points: [chessmoron, 1/2, 41 offramp, 1/2, 41]
Under, 7 points: []
2nd Under, 6 points: [Golden Executive, 1/2, 40]
3rd Under, 5 points: [juan31, 1/2, 39; juniper anole, 1/2, 39]
Over, 3 points: []
2nd Over, 2 points: [lostemperor, 1/2, 43]
3rd Over, 1 point1: [wordfunph, 1/2 46]
===

<Van Foreest-Mamedyarov, 1/2 in 40 moves.>
Exact, 10 points: [juan31, 1/2, 40]
Under, 7 points: []
2nd Under, 6 points: [Count Wedgemore, 1/2, 39]
3rd Under, 5 points: [DerDiemer, 1/2, 20; alfamikewhiskey, 1/2, 20] Over, 3 points: []
2nd Over, 2 points: [offramp, 1/2, 41]

3rd Over, 1 point: [wordfunph, 1/2, 46]

===

<Fedoseev-Kramnik, 0-1 in 69 moves.>
Exact, 10 points: []
Under, 7 points: [juniper anole, 0-1, 50]
2nd Under, 6 points: []
3rd Under, 5 points: []
Over, 3 points: []
2nd Over, 2 points: []
3rd Over, 1 point1: []
===

<Shankland-Nepomniachtchi, 1-0 in 35 moves.>

NO ONE GOT IT!

===

<Radjabov-Giri in 32 moves.>
Exact, 10 points: [DerDiemer, 1/2, 32; lostemperor, 1/2, 32] Under, 7 points: []
2nd Under, 6 points: [offramp, 1/2, 29]
3rd Under, 5 points: [Count Wedgemore, 1/2, 28] Over, 3 points: []
2nd Over, 2 points: [alfamikewhiskey, 1/2, 35]
3rd Over, 1 point1: [juan31, 1/2, 39]

Jan-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: Anyone with too much time on their hands, please check my work. I need a program to do this. Way too much to do by hand.
Jan-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: Ugh, I left Round 11 all over the place on the results. Not going to fix it.
Jan-26-19  WinKing: <OCF> I will do round 12 if that's ok with you.
Jan-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: ** Round 12 Recap **

As Round 12, or 11, or whatever it was closes, the race has gotten much more exciting. Early leader <Penguincw> finished his third straight round without a point, and the field has closed in dramatically. <Pengo> still leads two rankers, but <DerDiemer> stormed to the lead in Moves Ranker. <lostemperor> still leads Bonus Ranker.

In other news, <Penguincw> claimed he has never been to the "Chess Club", but photographic evidence says otherwise:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct...

<lostemperor> turned in 2 days worth of picks today, so that he could go see what the fuss is all about. Here he is in action, at the "Chess Club": https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...

<Count Wedgemore> is planning a trip to the "Chess Club" after all, since he heard about this hot bunny appearing there:

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...

<chessmoron> wanted to get to the chess club again tonight, to meet this lovely lady:

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...

He glared at <WinKing> and ordered him to do the scoring. <Winky> foolishly said no to someone who is 7' 6", but <OCF> courageously stepped forward to save <Winky's> life. The entire field of competitors shrieked in horror, but <OCF> promised he'd do his very best, whereupon the entire field of competitors shrieked again!

<bubulli> is continuing his mad path to negative scores in Bookie, and is about to get the Loan Shark after him.

So there you have it. 12 rounds in, 1 to go, for muy fame and fortune. Can <Penguincw> hold on to the 2 golds he currently has? Will <DD> keep his 1 gold, and possibly add a couple more? Will <lostemperor's> nonchalant final round entry cost him? Will <WinKing> be able to avoid the furious <chessmoron> for a few years? How much shrieking will the contestants do as they inevitably find scoring mistakes that <OCF> made? Stay tuned, for the answers to these and many other exciting questions. One round to go in our thrilling contest, and the crowd rises...…..

Jan-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: <Winky>, I assuredly don't mind. You can do the whole round over if you want, or just check my work, anything is good.
Jan-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: Hmm, the penguin link didn't work. We'll try this:

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...

Jan-26-19  WinKing: I think your ok <OCF>. Please give me a few minutes. Your totals in the Moves + Bonus Ranker are correct.
Jan-26-19  WinKing: You just had a few wrong in the Bonus Ranker <OCF>. You were pretty close though.
Jan-26-19  WinKing: I found a mistake in my own work.
Jan-26-19  WinKing: Round 12 Summary:

Perfect # moves predictions for this round goes to <chessmoron, offramp, juan31, DerDiemer, lostemperor, wordfunph>

Highest scores in the Bonus Ranker: 13 points: <offramp>

Results:

Moves Ranker - Through <Round 12>

Score, UserID, Over, Under, Exact

88, DerDiemer, 0, 4, 6
85, Penguincw, 1, 6, 4
63, juan31, 4, 3, 3
61, offramp, 1, 4, 3
48, wordfunph, 0, 4, 2
47, chessmoron, 1, 2, 3
44, bubuli55, 2, 4, 1
43, Count Wedgemore, 3, 2, 2
38, juniper anole, 0, 4, 1
34, OhioChessFan, 2, 4, 0
31, WinKing, 0, 3, 1
30, Golden Executive, 2, 2, 1
16, Diademas, 2, 0, 1
17, lostemperor, 0, 1, 1
13, alfamikewhiskey, 2, 1, 0

===

Bonus Ranker - Through <Round 12>

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

86, lostemperor, 5, 6, 3, 9
75, Count Wedgemore, 6, 4, 5, 6
69, Diademas, 2, 3, 5, 6
63, Penguincw, 3, 5, 4, 5
60, alfamikewhiskey, 5, 6, 5, 3
54, juan31, 2, 1, 4, 5
54, WinKing, 5, 3, 5, 3
50, DerDiemer, 5, 4, 5, 2
48, bubuli55, 1, 6, 1, 5
35, Golden Executive, 2, 5, 1, 3
31, OhioChessFan, 4, 2, 1, 3
29, juniper anole, 3, 2, 2, 2
29, offramp, 2, 5, 1, 2
28, wordfunph, 5, 6, 1, 1
11, chessmoron, 1, 2, 0, 1

===

Moves+Bonus Ranker - Through <Round 12>

Score, UserID

148, Penguincw
138, DerDiemer
118, Count Wedgemore
117, juan31
103, lostemperor
92, bubuli55
90, offramp
85, Diademas
85, WinKing
76, wordfunph
73, alfamikewhiskey
67, juniper anole
65, Golden Executive
65, OhioChessFan
58, chessmoron

===

Moves Ranker (# of 1st place UNDER/OVER) - Through <Round 12>

Score,UserID

11, Penguincw
10, DerDiemer
10, juan31
8, offramp
7, bubuli55
7, Count Wedgemore
6, chessmoron
6, OhioChessFan
6, wordfunph
5, Golden Executive
5, juniper anole
4, WinKing
3, alfamikewhiskey
3, Diademas
2, lostemperor

*****

Jan-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: Thanks. We'll go with that and I'll delete my previous.
Jan-26-19  WinKing: We are good now.
Jan-26-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  Penguincw: < WinKing: I found a mistake in my own work. >

Me too. My scores are still the same as the previous 3 rounds. Oh wait...

Jan-26-19  WinKing: <Penguincw: Me too. My scores are still the same as the previous 3 rounds. Oh wait...>

Your still hanging tough <Penguincw>. I don't see you getting shut out in the final round.

Jan-26-19  WinKing: ***Tomorrow, Sunday Jan. 27th, is the final 13th round of the Tata Steel Masters tournament. It starts 1½ hrs earlier (6am chessgames time - EST).***
Jan-26-19  WinKing: Be sure to get your picks in early.
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