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Players - Masters
Caruana, J'adoubeamura, So, Eljanov, Mickey Adams

Main interest will be in the Major to see how David Sedgwick gets on

I shall be there in a behind-the-scenes capacity.

Mick Norris wrote:Main interest will be in the Major to see how David Sedgwick gets on

Indifferently would be my guess.

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Mick Norris wrote:Website is working now

I guess it was inevitable that the website would crash once you announced David Sedgwick's entry to the forum

LawrenceCooper wrote:

Mick Norris wrote:Website is working now

I guess it was inevitable that the website would crash once you announced David Sedgwick's entry to the forum

Allied with David's shock comment that he is expecting to do indifferently, I assume everyone is checking the Major entries to see who to put their money on

"I guess it was inevitable that the website would crash once you announced David Sedgwick's entry to the forum "

I expect there was a fire alarm in the server room...

Kevin Thurlow wrote:"I guess it was inevitable that the website would crash once you announced David Sedgwick's entry to the forum "

I expect there was a fire alarm in the server room...

Thereby hangs a small tale.

On the Monday morning after the end of the 2015 IoM International, the arbiting team were packing up equipment etc at the venue.

I was deputed to clear the analysis room. Having taken the equipment to the collection point, I went back to check that nothing had been left behind.

At that moment the fire alarm went off. I walked down the stairs, not of course using the lift, and, with my duties completed, not only left the building but departed from the entire venue.

So my very last act as an arbiter at the IoM International was to evacuate the premises owing to a fire alarm.

Starting at 1.30pm today on ches24 etc.
The top three pairings are all "Battle of the Sexes", was this engineered?
Caruana v Jovanka Houska
FM Marina Brunello v Wesley So
Nakamura v Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant

Board 4: Alan Tate v Mickey Adams

Tim Harding wrote: The top three pairings are all "Battle of the Sexes", was this engineered?

They are adjacent in the rankings. It looks as if there may have been a little creativity with players whose presence for the first round is uncertain, given the first round pairings have Bellaiche Anthony against TO BE PAIRED on board 42 .

The other players facing TO BE PAIRED are at the tail end of the pairings, so excluded from the main draw.
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I ended up playing in round 1, and lost to Adam C Taylor.

Is it possible to get the Major section results on any website ? I'm having no luck so far.

Barry Sandercock wrote:Is it possible to get the Major section results on any website ?

I don't think it starts until Monday.

http://www.iominternationalchess.com/in ... edule.html

Entrants are listed at

http://www.iominternationalchess.com/players/major.html
http://www.iominternationalchess.com/players/minor.html