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Jan-30-12
 | | lostemperor: <SloVice> yes the rule is if two or three rankers have the EXACTLY same winner or winners only one set of medal is given because it often occurs one person wins triple gold. It would only inflate the value of the medals if that person would get two or three ♔. Eg. <YouRang> would have had 10 ♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔♔ orso because he won triple gold more than once and the same goes for other players. Of course if <SwitchingQuylthulg> had also won gold in the Betting Ranker together with you, that medal would have been recorded also in the Hall of Fame because you, on the other hand, have not won gold in another ranker and were a unique winner! ;) |
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| Jan-31-12 | | SloVice: <lostemperor><SwitchingQuylthulg> Sorry, my bad. I saw <SwitchingQuylthulg> was in the 3♔ group, but had only two. I thought he already had two ♔ before, got moved up, but a ♔ wasn't added. |
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| Jan-31-12 | | ooda: Thanks for running the contest <lostemperor> and congrats to the winners. |
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Mar-12-12
| | lostemperor: I guess the next tournament will be Linares if it happens in April somewhere! :) |
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Mar-23-12
| | lostemperor: It is a bit quiet on the top tournament round robin agenda :( |
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Apr-05-12
| | lostemperor: Lately I try to work two hours on chess a day and I am inspired by a Short game vs Gulko which I cannot find here just yet:) |
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Apr-20-12
| | lostemperor: From <YouRang> forum Linares is cancelled this year.. |
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Apr-20-12
| | lostemperor: But tomorrow starts the Kramnik - Aronian match!:) Any guesses? |
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Apr-20-12
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: 1. Aronian
2. Kramnik |
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Apr-20-12
 | | Check It Out: classical games: 3 1/2 - 2 1/2 Aronian wins
rapid games: 2-1 Kramnik wins
overall victory days: 3 - 3 tie |
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Apr-21-12
| | lostemperor: Oh there is also rapid games?! Rapid tend to favour the experienced so either Aronian wins in the classical games 3 1/2 - 2 1/2 or at 3-3 Kramnik wins the rapid:) |
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Apr-21-12
| | lostemperor: <SwitchingQuylthulg> Congratulations for winning
The Sixth ChessBookie Championships of the World (2012)!! <WINTER 2012 • CHAMPIONSHIP LEG
1st place: SwitchingQuylthulg (80,924 chessbucks)
Qualifiying runners up: dakgootje, ChessWriter, technical draw, SloVice, Robin01, Barok Espinosa, 4tmac, moulicules, ddaniell.> Of course we here knew, after you won The Tatasteel Prediction Contest 2012 with SloVice that you are the man to beat! :) |
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Apr-21-12
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: <lostemperor: Of course we here knew, after you won The Tatasteel Prediction Contest 2012 with SloVice that you are the man to beat! :)> As if the two contests were somehow similar :)
<Congratulations for winning The Sixth ChessBookie Championships of the World (2012)!!> Thanks! |
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Apr-21-12
| | Check It Out: <lostemperor> I believe if the classical game is drawn then a rapid game is played to determine the "winner of the day". Apparently it only counts for the audience; the winner of the classical games is the match winner, rapids don't count. However, it does make for fun predicting three different sets of possible outcomes! |
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Apr-28-12
| | lostemperor: Interesting. I checked, if draw under 30 moves then a rapid game. This occured in game 4 and Aronian won the rapid. The classical games however, has just finished and ended in a 3-3 tie. |
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Jun-01-12
| | lostemperor: And as you know by now, Viswanathan Anand has successfully defended the World Chess Title against Boris Gelfand although in a rapid tie-breaker after 6-6 in the classical games!:) |
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| Jun-04-12 | | ooda: Hi Lost emperor, are you going to have a competition for the Tal Memorial (2012) ? All top 5 players in the world competing, average rating of 2775. |
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Jun-14-12
| | lostemperor: Oo I missed that <ooda>! |
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Jun-23-12
| | lostemperor: The Tal Memorial, which I thought would be held somewhere in October(!), is won by Magnus Carlsen after Morozevich was leading with 4/5. Tal Memorial Tournament
1. Carlsen 5.5/9
2. Radjabov
Caruana 5/9
4. Grischuk
Kramnik
Morozevich
Aronian 4.5/9
8. McShane
Hikaru Nakamura
10. Tomashevsky 3.5/9 |
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Jun-23-12
| | lostemperor: I won't be holding the Dortmund tournament, what is in mid Summer, since I am on holidays myself. You can post your expectations here however for the records!:) |
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Jun-23-12
 | | WannaBe: Thank you for not running Dortmund, saves me the embarassement of coming in last, as usual. |
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| Jun-23-12 | | YouRang: <lostemperor: I won't be holding the Dortmund tournament, what is in mid Summer, since I am on holidays myself. You can post your expectations here however for the records!:)> Technically -- You could host the contest anyway. People post their predictions as usual, and you produce the final report whenever you return -- even if a month after the tournament ends. :-) Naturally, we would miss the intermediate reports prior to the final round. It's up to you of course. |
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| Jun-24-12 | | whiteshark: fyi, the Dortmund 2012 line-up:
1) Kramnik, Vladimir, RUS, 2801
2) Caruana, Fabiano, ITA, 2767
3) Karjakin, Sergey, RUS, 2766
4) Ponomariov, Ruslan, UKR, 2727
5) Leko, Peter, HUN, 2720
6) Naiditsch, Arkadij, GER, 2702
7) Bartel, Mateusz, POL, 2665
8) Fridman, Daniel, GER, 2653
9) Meier, Georg, GER, 2647
10) Gustafsson, Jan, GER, 2642
http://www.chess.com/news/dortmund-... tournament page http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting... (in German) |
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Jun-25-12
| | lostemperor: Yes that would be an idea <YouRang>. But perhaps this field would be interesting more so for game results predictions and I hope to certainly have time to join in at your forum! |
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Jul-10-12
 | | OhioChessFan: Dortmund Moves Prediction Contest, sponsored by the legendary <chessmoron> and hosted in my forum, is now open. First round begins Friday the 13th. Click on Elvis for details. |
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