Millionaire Chess 6-10 October 2016

[Leonard Barden]

Gawain Jones will have a real opportunity on Millionaire Monday.

Last night's tiebreaks eliminated Xiong and Mamedov who were probably his most dangerous rivals and left the Englishman as the highest rated survivor against Swiercz, Cordova and Zhou.

[LawrenceCooper]

I think that Swiercz beat Mamedov in a tie-break play-off but am only basing this on the pgn file and them playing in rounds 6 & 7.

[LawrenceCooper]

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tourn ... nday/1/1/1

[Barry Sandercock]

Gawain Jones game looking interesting (move 18 ) fairly even but white ( Jones) looks promising.

[LawrenceCooper]

Gawain Jones game looking interesting (move 18 ) fairly even but white ( Jones) looks promising.

Gawain 1up albeit that doesn't tell the whole story

[NickFaulks]

I thought it was a legitimate rapidplay win.

[Chris Rice]

Gawain was completely busted but isn't this at least the fourth time in this tournament he's dug out a result he really shouldn't have got?

[LawrenceCooper]

Gawain was completely busted but isn't this at least the fourth time in this tournament he's dug out a result he really shouldn't have got?

A very important quality to have in this type of event.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Deserves to have won for having the gumption to play on with 33.Kg2 instead of taking the perpetual at that point. And his opponent also declined a perpetual, but walked into a nice tactic that lost his queen.

[Tim Harding]

Deserves to have won for having the gumption to play on with 33.Kg2 instead of taking the perpetual at that point. And his opponent also declined a perpetual, but walked into a nice tactic that lost his queen.

I agree with those last comments. Gawain has maybe got the hang of the delay system better than his opponents. It seems to pay off on risk-taking compared with increments which reward "proper" play?

[John Moore]

The website is rubbish, though.

[Jonathan Rogers]

yes, credit for courage in playing on with Kg2 there. it is a human game, not a computer one, and Gawain is obviously reading his opponent and the clock situation well.

It rather seems that he is destined to win it! What's the first prize - presumably not actually one million dollars?

[NickFaulks]

It rather seems that he is destined to win it! What's the first prize - presumably not actually one million dollars?

$30k, bit of a comedown. That would explain why the US BIg Three preferred IoM.

[Jonathan Rogers]

I wonder whether any British player apart from Adams and Short has won 30K in one event before? (maybe Luke at one of the London Chess Classic events?)

[Tim Harding]

It rather seems that he is destined to win it! What's the first prize - presumably not actually one million dollars?

$30k, bit of a comedown. That would explain why the US BIg Three preferred IoM.

Partly. Wesley So won the first one and Nakamura last year. I am not sure what first prize was, maybe 100,000 bucks each time? I don't think Caruana played in 2014 and he certainly didn't last year.