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| Jun-24-13 | | wordfunph: <lost> muchas gracias! congrats to all winnahs! |
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| Jun-24-13 | | Karposian: <lostemperor> Thx for another great contest, looking forward to the next one! Especially since I can only do better next time...eight points and dead last in the Absolute Ranker...if only I had turned my predictions upside down!! A good summer to everyone btw |
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Jun-25-13
 | | lostemperor: Thanks all!:) . Not sure when is the next top tournament (anyone)? Won't do the Dortmund tournament since also I am partly on vacation. |
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| Jun-25-13 | | chessmoron: <Won't do the Dortmund tournament since also I am partly on vacation.> We'll gladly wait for the results after you come back from your vacation. :D |
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| Jun-26-13 | | cromat: Congrats to winners and thanks <lostemperor> for the contest. CU@ Dortmund |
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| Jun-27-13 | | LucB: Thanks for running this; well done!.. Hopefully I'll do better next time. |
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| Jul-01-13 | | The Last Straw: FIDE Grand Prix Beijing Elo Change Prediction Contest being held in my forum. Click on the bug for details. |
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Jul-25-13
 | | OhioChessFan: Dortmund Moves Prediction Contest, hosted by <chessmoron>. Starts Friday. Click on Elvis for details. |
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| Aug-05-13 | | WinKing: The Hall of Fame Gold Medal list has been updated. See my forum for details. |
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| Aug-05-13 | | WinKing: I have a question <lostemperor>. How long has your prediction contest been up & running? |
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Aug-06-13
| | lostemperor: <WinKing> I started from January 2005! Corus tournament won by Peter Leko and the predicition contest won by <suenteus po 147> and <Like a GM>There were a lot of people making their top 5 predicitons on the tournament page then and I thought of a systen how to process a countsystem for all participants. It was new and effective though simple calculating formula. Nevertheless, without the software made by <Youtrang> available for a few years still, I had to calculate every tournament player standings and each prediciton of the contest participants myself what cost a days work at the end of the tournament :-) |
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| Aug-06-13 | | WinKing: Thanks for the info <lostemperor>. I didn't realize that these games had been going on for so long. There should be a section in chessgames that has the history of all the prediction games. I'm sure others will be as curious as I was wanting to know how these game got started. |
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| Aug-07-13 | | The Last Straw: Hello everyone:
I feel very sad to announce that I may be unable to continue holding this prediction contest. A new taskload of work has taken over and I also have some important family matters to deal with. I know it has been such short time, and I have only been able to hold 2 competitions, but I still must make the change. When I first started the contest, I was completely clueless this was going to happen. If anybody would like to hold it in their forum instead, please copy all parts of my biography which are related to this contest and post a message in my forum. I will surely recognze you as the new runner of this contest.Thank you. |
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| Oct-31-13 | | NGambit: WOW! I'm in the Hall of fame! And I never knew :D
I guess I participated in the contest more than a year back and totally forgot about it. Accidentally bumped here today and was really thrilled to see my name up there. Yay! Thanks <lostemperor> |
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Nov-08-13
| | lostemperor: Awaiting the World Championship match Anand - Carlsen, we can already look ahead to the Tata steel chess tournament January 2014. There will be 12 not 14 participants where 11 are known now Name Country Rating Position
GM Aronian, Levon ARM 2795 3
GM Nakamura, Hikaru USA 2783 5
GM Caruana, Fabiano ITA 2779 6
GM Gelfand, Boris ISR 2765 9
GM Karjakin, Sergey RUS 2762 10
GM Dominguez, Leinier CUB 2753 12
GM Giri, Anish NED 2749 15
GM Naiditsch, Arkadij GER 2724 26
GM So, Wesley PHL 2706 41
GM van Wely, Loek NED 2693 55
GM Rapport, Richard HUN 2676 71
The World championships contenders, Anand and Carlsen will not be joining, for now, after their match. But we can enjoy their games in the upcoming match! |
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Nov-08-13
| | lostemperor: I had to look it up myself <NGambit>. Slightly over a year ago you won the pair betting ranker of the Bilbao masters 2012! :-) |
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| Nov-12-13 | | NGambit: How you doing <lostemperor>? And thanks for looking it up. I hope to be back for the TATA steel predictions, that should be fun :) Btw, who are you rooting for in the WCC? |
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Nov-19-13
| | lostemperor: Okay I am. Played some classical games last weekend too! I almost always root for the underdog, this being Anand ratingwise. But it would be good if we have a new WC Carlsen. This seems likely now that he is ahead two points! Over three years ago I already put Carlsen in my best ever top 10 list. He was still a young boy then (19) and only had some great accomplishments for his age. He just finished a weak Olympiad. Nevertheless I put him on shared first place! Anand at 5th! Here at the Bent Larsen page. Many think I was biased towards Carlsen then and my list was dubious at best. But even in 2008 when Carlsen was still 17 I put Carlsen at number 5 in my best ever list ahead of Kasparov (*estimate (this list was made before Carlsen won even one major tournament))! See Akiba Rubinstein Foolish then but not so much now I guess? ;-) |
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Nov-25-13
| | lostemperor: Congrats to Magnus Carlsen who won the World title! From his losses Anand could have scored draws several times but the challenger made it hard for him. |
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Dec-07-13
 | | Penguincw: Will you host the London Chess Classic that's coming up? So far, Vladimir Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana, Viswanathan Anand
Hikaru Nakamura, Boris Gelfand, Mickey Adams, Peter Svidler, Luke McShane, Judit Polgar, Nigel Short, Matthew Sadler, David Howell, Gawain Jones
and Jonathan Rowson will participate. |
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Dec-10-13
| | Penguincw: Nevermind, I found the format of LCC, and it's a knockout tournament. Sorry about that. :) |
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Dec-25-13
| | Penguincw: Merry Christmas <lostemperor>. :) |
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Jan-03-14
| | lostemperor: Yes a pity London became rapid and KO! Nakamura won it!! |
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Jan-03-14
| | lostemperor: Best wishes for 2014!! If you have recoverd from the Holiday festifities by now, Tata Steel Chess is awaiting us for the prediction contest! In a week or so it will burst out in the Netherlands http://www.tatasteelchess.com/tourn... Here the line up
1. Aronian 2803
2. Nakamura 2786
3. Caruana 2782
4. Gelfand 2777
5. Karjakin 2756
6. Dominguez 2754
7. Naiditsch 2737
8. Giri 2734
9. So 2719
10. Harikrishna 2708
11. Rapport 2687
12. Van Wely 2678
Place your bets please in a format as mentioned in my profile for virtual Gold Silver and Bronze! |
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Jan-06-14
| | Penguincw: First... to post a prediction.
1. Aronian
2. Gelfand
3. Nakamura
3. Naiditsch
5. Caruana
6. Karjakin
6. Dominguez
8. So
8. Harikrishna
10. Giri
10. Rapport
12. Van Wely
Same method pretty much every time. :) |
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