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Jul-03-07
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| Jul-03-07 | | YouRang: Okay, I think I set a record for overall prediction disaster in Dortmund 2007. I must not have been feeling well. I think I ate some bad karma. Hopefully, I'm better now. Here is how I forsee things finishing in Mexico: 1. Aronian
1. Kramnik
3. Anand
3. Leko
5. Morozevich
5. Gelfand
7. Svidler
8. Grischuk |
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Jul-03-07
 | | lostemperor: <Open Defence> the easiest way is in the format as given in my post (if I understand your question correctly). If a shared standing between players, the highest standing counts. So from above example; if you think Morozevich, Leko and Aronian will finish all in third place, you post the following: 1. Anand
2. Kramnik
3. Morozevich
3. Leko
3. Aronian
6. Svidler
7. Gelfand
8. Grischuk
Hope this helps:)
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Jul-03-07
 | | WannaBe: Okay... Here are my guesses:
1. Anand
2. Kramnik
3. Svidler
4. Leko
5. Aronian
5. Morozevich
7. Grischuk
7. Gelfand |
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Jul-03-07
| | Open Defence: 1. Kramnik
2. Aronian
3. Anand
3. Leko
5. Gelfand
5. Morozevich
8. Svidler
8. Grischuk
meaning Svidler and Grischuk will tie for the lowest points, Morozevich and Gelfand for the next highest points, Leko and Anand sharing 3-4 and Aronian finishing just behind Kramnik who will sneak ahead of the field... in case any of the place numbering is to be changed please let me know but I guess the prediction is clear |
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Jul-03-07
| | lostemperor: <Open Defence> crystal! (but I will make that a shared 7 for Svidler and Grischuk for you). And welcome to the prediction contest:) |
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Jul-03-07
| | Open Defence: thanks <lostemperor> !! I was confused about that actually.. helpful you are... ;-p |
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Jul-04-07
| | lostemperor: Okay, here we go!
1. Kramnik
2. Anand
3. Leko
4. Aronian
5. Svidler
6. Grischuk
7. Morozevich
7. Gelfand
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| Jul-04-07 | | TIMER: Hello lostemperor!
I was away from this site (and all chess) for a few months so I missed the candidate matches unfortunately, and the final four turned out to be whom was most likely by ELO. Did not expect Aronian to struggle so much against Carlsen though! Kamsky I wanted to be in Mexico but I also like Gelfand who has similar long experience of matches and currently much better prepared, so I felt that it would be too much for Kamsky. Don't under-estimate Gelfand just because he had a bad Dortmund- he was solid in the candidate matches so I think that he might be well prepared for Mexico too, so I think that he will be middle of the table. Then again there are no weak links in the World Championship Tournament so I guess you have to predict someone to be last! Thanks for still running final standing predictions, this next one is the big one for this year I think! |
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Jul-04-07
| | lostemperor: <TIMER> good to have you back! In fact the only person I'm sure about is Kramnik:) (and least certain I'm with Anand unfortunately). The candidate matches may have produced the four likely favorites but the scores, also in the first round, might been somewhat surprising! For several reasons, I would have picked Kramnik first for Mexico even if he finished last in Dortmund. |
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Jul-10-07
| | WannaBe: <lostemperor> are you doing a tournament prediction for Biel? http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/cms/ |
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Jul-11-07
| | lostemperor: <WannaBe> that is a strong tournament with fingerlicking good participants. No I wasn't planning in doing a contest on that but if people are interested I wouldn't mind running one! |
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Jul-11-07
| | WannaBe: <lostemperor> If you don't mind. =) Here are my guesses: 1. A. Grischuk
2. M. Carlsen
2. T. Radjabov
2. J. Polgar
5. L. van Wely
5. B. Xianghzi
7. B. Avrukh
7. A. Onischuk
7. A. Motylev
7. Y. Pelletier |
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Jul-12-07
| | lostemperor: My gamble:
1. Radjabov
2. Grischuk
3. Polgar
3. Motylev
5. Avrukh
5. Van Wely
5. Carlsen
8. Xianghzi
8. Onischuk
10. Pelletier |
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Jul-12-07
| | lostemperor: If not for anything else, we can make this a enjoyable contest! |
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| Jul-16-07 | | kolobok: 1. Radjabov
2. Grischuk
3. Polgar
3. Carlsen
5. Avrukh
5. Van Wely
5. A.Motylev
8. Xianghzi
8. Onischuk
10. Pelletier |
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| Jul-19-07 | | kolobok: 1. Radjabov
2. Grischuk
3. Polgar
4. Carlsen
5.Van Wely
6. Avrukh
7. A.Motylev
8. Xianghzi
9. Onischuk
10. Pelletier |
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| Jul-19-07 | | TIMER: <lost emperor>
Here are my current predictions for Biel (only the top half I am familiar with from supertournaments though so very rough (maybe even random) bottom half!)...1. Radjabov
2-4 Grischuk,
2-4 Polgar
2-4 Carlsen
5 Van Wely
6-8 Avrukh
6-8 A.Motylev
6-8 Onischuk
9-10 Xianghzi
9-10 Pelletier
Thanks. |
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| Jul-19-07 | | YouRang: For reference, these are the Biel players:
9. 2746 Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijan
14. 2726 Alexander Grischuk, Russia
17. 2710 Magnus Carlsen, Norway
19. 2707 Judit Polgar, Hungary
25. 2685 Bu Xianghzi, China
34. 2679 Loek van Wely, Netherlands
61. 2650 Alexander Onischuk, United States
68. 2648 Alexander Motylev, Russia
74. 2645 Boris Avrukh, Israel
173. 2591 Yannick Pelletier, Switzerland |
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| Jul-19-07 | | YouRang: This would be my prediction:
1. Radjabov
1. Carlsen
3. Polgar
3. Grischuk
5. van Wely
6. Xianghzi
6. Onischuk
8. Motylev
9. Avrukh
10. Pelletier |
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Jul-20-07
| | lostemperor: Alright, I've been doing some research at this database and found Avrukh has relatively lesser experience in top tournaments (as is Bu). So I might have overestimated him. I need to do a revised prediction. 1. Radjabov
2. Grischuk
3. Polgar
4. Onischuk
4. Motylev
6. Van Wely
6. Carlsen
8 Xianghzi
9. Avrukh
10. Pelletier |
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| Jul-20-07 | | cromat: my prediction:
1. Radjabov
2. Grischuk
3-4. Carlsen, Polgar
5-6. Onischuk, Motylev
7-8. Van Wely, Xianghzi
9-10. Avrukh, Pelletier |
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| Jul-20-07 | | chessmoron: -------
1. Radjabov
2. Carlsen
3. Grischuk
4. Polgar
5. Xianghzi
6. Van Wely
7. Pelletier
8 Onischuk
9. Avrukh
10. Motylev |
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| Jul-20-07 | | percyblakeney: * * *
1. Radjabov
2. Carlsen
3. Grischuk
4. van Wely
5. Polgar
6. Motylev
7. Xiangzhi
8. Onischuk
9. Pelletier
10. Avrukh |
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| Jul-22-07 | | yalie: 1. Radjabov
2-3. Carlsen,Polgar
4. Grischuk
5-6. Onischuk, Van Wely
7-8. Motylev , Xianghzi
9-10. Avrukh, Pelletier
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