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Jan-20-06
 | | Annie K.: Meh. I overslept and missed posting my Round 5 predictions, losing thereby 2 whole points. :p Serves me right for putting it off till the last minute. And after a rest day, too. :s Round 6:
Sokolov - Leko 1/2
Kamsky - Anand 0-1
Adams - Ivanchuk 0-1
Bacrot - Aronian 1/2
van Wely - Karjakin 1/2
Mamedyarov - Gelfand 1/2
Tiviakov - Topalov 0-1 |
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Jan-20-06
 | | cu8sfan: <I overslept and missed posting my Round 5 predictions> Happens to everyone. Ask Moro. (-: But oversleeping when the games start at 2.30 pm your time... Being a cat must be great! |
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Jan-20-06
| | Annie K.: Happens when you go to sleep at 10:00 in the morning! :) I have an extremely irregular schedule. :s |
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Jan-20-06
 | | lostemperor: Last week I played in a tournament when one of the higher ranked well known participant did not show up untill 9 when the game starts at 8 o'clock. His honest excuse was he overslept. That can happen at 8 o'clock. But it was 8 PM. Chessplayers have a different life;) Btw. "immovable object" Leko was moved yesterday:) |
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Jan-20-06
| | cu8sfan: <VishyFan> It's not too late to post a complete prediction for round 7: <Round 7 - Saturday the 21st
P. Leko - G. Kamsky >
<YouRang> Funny, your post about which match ups were difficult to predict was taken as a prediction by you. (-: There are several ways to enter a draw: 1/2, 0.5, ½, =, draw. Maybe you could add ".5" to this list. Thank you. |
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Jan-20-06
| | Annie K.: <Chessplayers have a different life> LOL, <lostemperor>! Indeed. Wonder if that's a result or a prerequisite of playing chess? :p <Btw. "immovable object" Leko was moved yesterday :) > Yes, "irresistible force" Anand turned out to be stronger. ;) |
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| Jan-20-06 | | YouRang: Oops - My apologies for posting incorrect information yesterday regarding best predictors. I accidentally posted one of the results incorrectly. :-( In found 5, there were five <best predictors> who got 5 of 7 correct: Assassinater, nintenchess, WannaBe, you vs yourself, zarra Also, regarding the <games that fewest people predicted correctly>, in round 5, we had: Karjakin-Bacrot[1-0]:
Predicted by: nintenchess, Assassinater, Appaz, AdrianP Topalov-Mamedyarov[1/2]:
Predicted by: Xerox, me to play, excmo, AdrianP |
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| Jan-20-06 | | suenteus po 147: Ugh, I'm at an all time predicting high with 3/7 :p Is predicting four white wins for round seven unwise? |
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| Jan-20-06 | | YouRang: ROUND 6
<Best Predictors> with 5 of 7 correct: DRAWER, acirce, Broon Bottle, cade, grobmaverick, lostemperor, petrovalovski, VishyFan, yalie <Games that fewest people predicted correctly> Adams-Ivanchuk [1-0]
Predicted by: VishyFan + suenteus po 147 + PinkPanther + Joshka + grobmaverick + cade + Broon Bottle + Bent Bexley + badmove + babakova Kamsky-Anand[1-0]
Predicted by: NOBODY! |
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| Jan-21-06 | | you vs yourself: This sucks! <iron maiden> beat me; <drawer> beat me and even this guy that never kibitzes, I think his handle is <acirce>, even he beat me! What's this world coming to? |
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| Jan-22-06 | | badmove: <cubs8fan> I don't know, but is suspect NOBODY has predicted a victory of Sokolov through these eight rounds counting all games with Non-Dutch rivals. I am right? |
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| Jan-22-06 | | Assassinater: <cu8sfan>, I'm just curious; how many people have predicted at least one all-draw day and how many people consistently predict all draws? |
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| Jan-22-06 | | PinkPanther: <badmove>
That's because Sokolov sucks. He should just be glad that somebody is playing worse than him for a change this year. |
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Jan-23-06
| | cu8sfan: <I don't know, but is suspect NOBODY has predicted a victory of Sokolov through these eight rounds counting all games with Non-Dutch rivals. I am right?> Broon Bottle, Joshka and Resignation Trap have each predicted two wins for Sokolov, eight other players have predicted one win for him. In total he was predicted to: win: 14 times
draw: 312 times
lose: 162 times
<I'm just curious; how many people have predicted at least one all-draw day> Two participants have predicted all-draws three times, another four have done it once. < and how many people consistently predict all draws?> One - <Drawer>. |
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Jan-23-06
 | | Joshka: <Cu8safan> Well I think I'm the only one who has been WRONG for a full whole round? Round 3 all 7 predictions wrong!LOL:-)...this is not easy to do!:-) |
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Jan-23-06
| | cu8sfan: <Joshka> You're not that special. (-; In round 2, four players went 0-fer:
Father Karras, lostemperor, me to play and WannaBe.
In rounds 4 and 8 <Whiter> didn't score and in rounds 5 and 6 it was <Blacker>. |
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Jan-23-06
| | cu8sfan: <YouRang> I was suspicious before looking at the Betting Ranker results: <Earnings,UserID,Games,Rounds> $22.76,YouRang,56,8
The fact that you come in fourth is not surprising anymore but: $-16.84,cu8sfan,56,8
Do you hate me so much? (-: |
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| Jan-23-06 | | YouRang: <Individual Highlights of round 7> --- BEST PREDICTORS (5 of 7):
acirce, Assassinater, Joshka, larrewl, me to play, percyblakeney --- WORST PREDICTOR (1 of 7):
dimradil
Thanks dimradil, for doing worse than my 2 for 7! :-) 1,7,14.3%,dimradil,1
--- GAME CORRECTLY PREDICTED BY THE FEWEST PEOPLE:
Karjakin-Mamedyarov[1-0]
Predicted by: nintenchess + KingG + Broon Bottle + Bobak Zahmat + Assassinater |
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| Jan-23-06 | | YouRang: <Individual Highlights of round 8> --- BEST PREDICTORS (6 of 7):
grobmaverick, kolobok
--- WORST PREDICTOR (1 of 7):
chancho, EmperorAtahualpa
--- GAME CORRECTLY PREDICTED BY THE FEWEST PEOPLE:
Mamedyarov-Aronian[0-1]
Predicted by: grobmaverick + chancho + Broon Bottle + badmove |
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| Jan-23-06 | | grobmaverick: <acirce Round 9>
Betsson.com has these same 7 selections as favourites at this present time(1800 GMT). Its time to beat the bookie.
PS. I just happened to accidently access this site when I was sweating over my forecast. Honest! |
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| Jan-23-06 | | EmperorAtahualpa: <--- WORST PREDICTOR (1 of 7): EmperorAtahualpa> Geez, thanks a lot for letting the whole world know about that, <YouRang>! :) |
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Jan-23-06
 | | WannaBe: Worst predictor, time to bring back the old avatar <EmperorAtahualpa>. =) |
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| Jan-23-06 | | YouRang: <EmperorAtahualpa> Before I posted that result, I did seriously consider the possiblity that someone's feelings might be hurt by having their failures exposed. But then, I decided, "aw what the heck".
I posted it anyway. :) |
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Jan-23-06
 | | chancho: <You Rang> That was my first time entering the prediction contest. :) |
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| Jan-23-06 | | YouRang: <chancho> You made quite a splash for your first time in! Although you made it as a "worst predictor" with your 1-for-7, at least your one correct prediction was predicted by the fewest number of people! If everyone bet $1 on each game that they predicted, and all the money was shared equally by the people who predicted correctly, then you would have earned $13.75 for that one prediction, for a net gain of $6.75 in round eight (having spent $7 on betting on 7 games). :-) Unfortunately for <EmperorAtahualpa>, his only correct prediction was the Adams-Leko draw, and almost everyone (48 people) got that one right. The payoff for that game was just $1.15, meaning he had a net loss of $5.85 on that round. :-( |
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