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lostemperor
Member since Feb-18-03 · Last seen Feb-02-25
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<FINAL STANDINGS PREDICTIONS' CONTEST FORUM>

Predict the final standings of Tata Steel tournament January 12

Format example to post your predictions

1.Caruana
1. Erigaisi
3. Gukesh
4. Abdusattorov
5. Wei Yi
5. Harikrishna
5. Praggnanandhaa
8. Giri
9. Keymer
10. Fedoseev
11.Van Foreest
12. Sarina
12. Warmerdam
12. Mendonca

Good Luck!


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Some years ago I came up with a new but simple system to calculate the final standings of a tournament including all players. This is how it goes:

For each correct standing you'll get a maximum amount of points. Each prediction deviation from the actual player standing in the tournament, will deduct one point from your total (ABSOLUTE RANKER).

In case of a shared player's standing the average standing counts (both actual and in your predictions).

The SQUARE RANKER, squares your predictions' deviations. Here only medals are awarded if the winner s is not the same person s as in the absolute ranker.

Same goes for the The PAIR BETTING RANKER compare all possible pair outcomes of the tournament participants.

The three best predictions will get Real Virtual Gold Silver and Bronze!

Note: only one set of medals is awarded (in the absolute ranker) unless another ranker produces a different winner.

Special thanks to <YouRang> who made a software to calculate these numbers.

Our new contest manager for game results prediction User: Golden Executive during the tournament also ([1-0], [1/2], [0-1])!

or predict the # of moves in User: ohiochessfan organized by <chessmoron>

Enjoy!


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<HALL <OF> FAME>

WannaBe 10♔ 5♕ 4♖

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♔♔♔♔♔ ♔♔♔♕♕♕♕♖♖♖♖SwitchingQuylthulg

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♔♔♔♔♔♕♕♕♕♕♖♖♖YouRang

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♔♔♔♔♕♕♕♖Aurora
♔♔♔♔♕♕♖suenteus po 147
♔♔♔♔♖♖♖Penguincw

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♔♔♔♕♕♕♖♖♖lostemperor
♔♔♔♕♕♖♖♖♖♖chessmoron
♔♔♔♕♕♖♖♖rogge
♔♔♔♕♕♖cromat
♔♔♔♕♖Robin01
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♔♔♕♕♕♕WinKing
♔♔♕♕♕♖percyblakeney
♔♔♕♖♖♖yalie
♔♔♕♖wordfunph
♔♔♕♖Ragh
♔♔♕♖Ezzy
♔♔Golden Executive
♔♔SloVice
♔♔positionalgenius
♔♔amadeus

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♔♕♕♕♕♖♖OhioChessFan
♔♕♕♖Diademas
♔♕♖nimh
♔♕♖ahmadov
♔♕♖CHESSBOOKIE
♔♕Keysersoze
♔♕Where is my mind
♔♕Appaz
♔♖♖moronovich*
♔♖Golden Executive*
♔♖Montreal1666
♔♖Troewa

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♔Beholder
♔juan31
♔wtwz
♔Twinlark
♔SoUnwiseTheKnight B4
♔NGambit
♔benjinathan
♔DCP23
♔firebyrd
♔kellmano
♔Stonehenge
♔cu8sfan
♔larrewl
♔babakova
♔djmercury
♔mikejaqua
♔Joshka,
♔SnoopDogg
♔Like a GM

*may be incomplete

♔ Gold
♕ Silver
♖ Bronze


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   lostemperor has kibitzed 7712 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Feb-02-25 lostemperor chessforum (replies)
 
lostemperor: <Keyser Soze>,<0ZeR0>,<Penguincw> won gold each! Congratulations!
 
   Apr-20-24 Golden Executive chessforum (replies)
 
lostemperor: It is fixed! I had an expert looking at it.
 
   Jan-18-24 OhioChessFan chessforum (replies)
 
lostemperor: Betcha you. Right damn
 
   Jan-11-24 Tata Steel Masters (2024) (replies)
 
lostemperor: ♔♕♖ Announcement ♔♕♖ Join the annual Tata Teel Chess final standings prediction contest at lostemperor chessforum 1. Ding 2. Nepomniachtchi 3. Firouzja 4, Giri 5. Praggnanandhaa 6. Maghsoodloo 7. Vidit 8.Wei 9. Abdusattorov
 
   Feb-26-23 WR Chess Masters (2023) (replies)
 
lostemperor: The predictions' winners on the final standings of WR Chess on my forum <Penquincw>♔, <Golden Executive>♔, <Chesschronicle22>♕, <OhioChessFan>♕, <Messiah>♖
 
   Jan-30-23 Tata Steel Masters (2023) (replies)
 
lostemperor: Winners of the TATA STEEL CHESS 2023 FINAL STANDINGS PREDICTION'S CONTEST at my forum <Firouzjias>♔♔♖, <tuttifrutty>♔♕♖, <lostemperor>♕♕, <Messiah>♖
 
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FINAL STANDINGS PREDICTIONS

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Oct-10-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: PREDICTION STANDINGS ON FINAL STANDINGS MASTERS

Standings after round 7:

ABSOLUTE RANKER

Score evaluation method: Absolute value of rank deviation Maximum score: 18

Score,UserID
13,chessmoron
13,Ezzy
12,SwitchingQuylthulg
12,YouRang
11,Aurora
11,rogge
11,wordfunph
10,Barok Espinosa
10,Golden Executive
10,NGambit
10,Penguincw
10,whiteshark
10,WinKing
9,Diademas
9,lostemperor
9,OhioChessFan
8,King Sacrificer
8,WannaBe

Oct-10-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: SQUARE RANKER 7*

Score evaluation method: Least Squares of rank deviation Maximum score: 70

Score,UserID
63,chessmoron
62,YouRang
61,SwitchingQuylthulg
60,Ezzy
58,whiteshark
56,Penguincw
55,rogge
54,Aurora
54,Barok Espinosa
54,wordfunph
52,NGambit
52,WinKing
50,lostemperor
48,Diademas
47,OhioChessFan
46,King Sacrificer
45,Golden Executive
43,WannaBe

*this ranker is destined for this 6 men tournament to be the major ranker

Oct-10-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: PAIR BETTING RANKER 7:

Earnings,UserID
$16.99,NGambit
$11.52,chessmoron
$7.65,King Sacrificer
$2.57,whiteshark
$2.52,Ezzy
$2.35,YouRang
$0.10,SwitchingQuylthulg
$-0.57,Penguincw
$-1.83,WinKing
$-2.15,Aurora
$-3.11,Barok Espinosa
$-3.44,wordfunph
$-4.40,rogge
$-4.94,Diademas
$-5.67,WannaBe
$-5.69,lostemperor
$-5.69,OhioChessFan
$-6.22,Golden Executive

Oct-10-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: Large Payoff Pair results:
Payoff,Pair result,Winners
$18.00,Carlsen-equal-Caruana, NGambit

$9.00,Caruana-above-Aronian, chessmoron + King Sacrificer

$4.50,Caruana-above-Anand, King Sacrificer + SwitchingQuylthulg + whiteshark + YouRang

$3.60,Caruana-above-Karjakin, chessmoron + Ezzy + NGambit + Penguincw + whiteshark

$2.57,Anand-above-Karjakin, Barok Espinosa + chessmoron + Ezzy + NGambit + Penguincw + WannaBe + WinKing

$2.25,Carlsen-above-Aronian, Aurora + chessmoron + Diademas + Ezzy + Golden Executive + King Sacrificer + wordfunph + YouRang

Oct-10-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: We're back in business ;-)
Oct-10-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Wow, time to turn my monitor upside-down again.
Oct-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: Things are heating up in the 9th round today with three white wins in Bilbao of Carlsen, Caruana and Karjakin inspite of Anand, Aronian and Vallejo respectively! The final rankings will be set after todays final round.
Oct-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: <Here the final reults of <Bilbao Masters Tournament:<

1 Fabiano Caruana 16
2 Magnus Carlsen 16
3 Levon Aronian 10
4 Sergey Kariakin 9
5 Viswanathan Anand 8
6 Francisco Vallejo 5>
>
>

Oct-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: Due to only six participants in Bilbao I mentioned to use the Square Ranker to be the major Ranker. Sort of as a tie-breaker. Here the deviation of the predicitons is squared
Oct-13-12  rogge: Ehm, isn't it

1 Carlsen
2 Caruana ?

(or 1-2 Carlsen-Caruana ?)

Oct-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: Ah yes of course. I had it put in correct but copied the standings from the official site. Besides everyone should have one point more since the last round (draws) is not yet included. Thanks!
Oct-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: Official site now updated the FINAL standings

1 Fabiano Caruana 17
2 Magnus Carlsen 17
3 Levon Aronian 11
4 Sergey Kariakin 10
5 Viswanathan Anand 9
6 Francisco Vallejo 6

Oct-13-12  rogge: Lol, Caruana is still #1. Ok :)
Oct-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: Darn, right sorry:

1-2 Fabiano Caruana 17
1-2 Magnus Carlsen 17
3 Levon Aronian 11
4 Sergey Kariakin 10
5 Viswanathan Anand 9
6 Francisco Vallejo

Oct-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: But I believe you got my drift! ;-)
Oct-13-12  rogge: Anyways, thanks for hosting the competition, fun as always :)
Oct-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: The difficulty of this tournament, even with only 6 perticipants does not warrant a tie breaker since the winners were few also. So I decide to use the absolute ranker as the usual medal ranker. however there is a best predictor on tie break in the square ranker!;)
Oct-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: <FINAL PREDICITON STANDINGS BILBAO MASTERS 2012>

Absolute Ranker

Score evaluation method: Absolute value of rank deviation Maximum score: 18

Score,UserID
♔14,SwitchingQuylthulg
♔14,YouRang
♖12,rogge
♖12,whiteshark
♖12,wordfunph
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11,Aurora
11,chessmoron
11,Ezzy
10,Golden Executive
10,King Sacrificer
10,lostemperor
10,WinKing
9,Barok Espinosa
9,Diademas
9,OhioChessFan
8,NGambit
8,Penguincw
8,WannaBe

Oct-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: <SQUARE RANKER>
(The tie-breaker!)

Score evaluation method: Least Squares of rank deviation Maximum score: 70

Score,UserID
65,YouRang
64,SwitchingQuylthulg
62,whiteshark
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58,rogge
58,wordfunph
57,chessmoron
56,King Sacrificer
54,Aurora
54,Ezzy
54,lostemperor
50,Barok Espinosa
50,OhioChessFan
50,Penguincw
50,WinKing
49,Golden Executive
48,Diademas
44,NGambit
37,WannaBe

Oct-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: PAIR BETTING RANKER

Earnings,UserID
♔$14.41,NGambit
♕$9.65,King Sacrificer
♖$8.95,chessmoron
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$4.57,whiteshark
$4.35,YouRang
$2.10,SwitchingQuylthulg
$-0.05,Ezzy
$-1.44,wordfunph
$-2.15,Aurora
$-2.40,rogge
$-3.14,Penguincw
$-3.69,lostemperor
$-3.69,OhioChessFan
$-4.22,Golden Executive
$-4.40,WinKing
$-4.94,Diademas
$-5.69,Barok Espinosa
$-8.24,WannaBe

Oct-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: Large Payoff Pair results:
Payoff,Pair result,Winners
$18.00,Carlsen-equal-Caruana, NGambit

$9.00,Caruana-above-Aronian, chessmoron + King Sacrificer

$4.50,Caruana-above-Anand, King Sacrificer + SwitchingQuylthulg + whiteshark + YouRang

$3.60,Caruana-above-Karjakin, chessmoron + Ezzy + NGambit + Penguincw + whiteshark

$2.25,Carlsen-above-Aronian, Aurora + chessmoron + Diademas + Ezzy + Golden Executive + King Sacrificer + wordfunph + YouRang

$2.00,Karjakin-above-Anand, Golden Executive + King Sacrificer + lostemperor + OhioChessFan + rogge + SwitchingQuylthulg + whiteshark + wordfunph + YouRang

Oct-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: Congratulations to the winners!!

♔♔<YouRang>,

♔♕<SwitchingQuylthulg>

<NGambit>

<King Sacrificer>

♖♖<whiteshark>

<rogge>

<wordfunph>

<chessmoron>

(only one (gold) medal is given according rules)

<YouRang> proved it is not a coincidence he is leading the Hall of Fame by adding one more Gold! <SwitchingQuylthulg> again showed to keep up the pace.

Welcome to <NGambit> into the Hall of Fame. It has been a long while since someone new succeeded doing this. Maybe more new predictors will try this huge challenge to get into the Hall of Fame next time!

Oct-13-12  YouRang: Woo hoo! More gold! :-)

I wish I could figure out what I'm doing right in your contest, and use some of that in mine.

Thanks <lostemperor> for running the final standings prediction contest.

Oct-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: If I follow <YouRang> chess forum: Wijk aan Zee TataSteel tournament is the next top tournament in January.
Oct-13-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: <YouRang> I am disapointed, looking at this succes, you did not win a medal in the game prediction contest at your own forum. But I see you broke the organizer's curse of not being able to win in his own game this year! ;)
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