When I had to leave the game, Nakamura appeared to be playing moves only because the alternative was to resign.LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 8:05 pmNakamura somehow survived against Esipenko to win Group A
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Rapport through to play Naka, Dominguez through to play Aronian
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Ironically, when Nakamura was asked about possible semi-final opponents they didn't appear to consider the possibility of Rapport winning his round 6 game with black. They only discussed Fedoseev & Wojtaszek.NickFaulks wrote: ↑Fri Feb 11, 2022 12:20 amWhen I had to leave the game, Nakamura appeared to be playing moves only because the alternative was to resign.LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 8:05 pmNakamura somehow survived against Esipenko to win Group A
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chess.com Aronian and Naka win game 1 of semis
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Aronian draws to reach the final
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... as does Nakamura.
We have a final between two great players returning to form.
Tomorrow is now a rest day; then Game 1 on Tuesday, Game 2 on Wednesday, Tiebreaks on Thursday (as before).
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Today Nakamura has lost a pawn (moves 22-24) and to my eyes it appears that he played a sequence, then thought after one move that he'd overlooked something and bailed out a pawn down, but in fact he would have been all right.
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But Nakamura has enough play, and the game is drawn.
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chess.com report with the World Chess tweet and video re the 2016 Candidates "he touched the king" video
chess24 includes the pool draw for the 2nd leg in Belgrade
A - Grischuk, Andreikin, Shankland, Bacrot
B - Giri, Vitiugov, Harikrishna, Tabatabaei
C - Rapport, Vidit, Fedoseev, Shirov
Group of death - Shak, MVL, Yu Yangyi, Predke
chess24 includes the pool draw for the 2nd leg in Belgrade
A - Grischuk, Andreikin, Shankland, Bacrot
B - Giri, Vitiugov, Harikrishna, Tabatabaei
C - Rapport, Vidit, Fedoseev, Shirov
Group of death - Shak, MVL, Yu Yangyi, Predke
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Re: FIDE Grand Prix, Berlin 3-17 February 2022
Why are they having tie-breaks in the final? There were no tie-breaks for the semifinal losers, nor those tied for 2nd place at the pool stage. I don't think previous (all-play-all) Grands Prix were decided by tie-breaks (?)
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I think there's 13 points for 1st place and 10 for 2nd
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Yes, but the usual procedure is to split those points equally in the case of a tie.
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Well, I assume the Rules were pretty clear about what was going to happen 2019 had tiebreaks
Naka won the 2 tiebreak games
Naka won the 2 tiebreak games
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