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by Mick Norris » Mon Mar 29, 2021 3:09 pm
Pete Doggers
Scheduled for May 9-21, the field of participants so far announced had GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Ding Liren, Levon Aronian, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Wesley So, Alireza Firouzja, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Aryan Tari.
"We were prepared to organize the tournament in May as we managed to organize the tournament in October 2020 in the middle of the pandemic," said project manager Benedicte Westre Skog. "However, with closed borders in Norway and several other countries, it becomes impossible to plan and go through with the event in May."
The field might look a little different, but several have already confirmed plans to participate in September, including Carlsen.
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by Mick Norris » Tue Sep 07, 2021 10:43 am
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As in the last edition an Armageddon game will be played if the main classical game is drawn. Players: Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Richard Rapport, Sergey Karjakin, Alireza Firouzja and Aryan Tari. The event is a 6 player 10 round event. It gets off to a rather untidy start as the round 1 game Nepomniachtchi vs Karjakin is postponed until the first rest day on Saturday 11th.
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by Tim Harding » Tue Sep 07, 2021 9:00 pm
And Nepo's first game was postponed because of visa issues and being denied boarding on his plane!
Now he will have to play Karjakin on the first free day if ChessBase news can be believed.
It sounds like the first volley in Norway's psychological warfare on behalf of Magnus.
But will it backfire?
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by Kevin Thurlow » Wed Sep 08, 2021 1:36 pm
"It sounds like the first volley in Norway's psychological warfare on behalf of Magnus."
Probably a coincidence. On one of my visits to Norway, their immigration people were giving one family a hard time. (In fairness, that's a scene you can witness in every country I've visited!)
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Paolo Casaschi
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by Paolo Casaschi » Thu Sep 09, 2021 5:10 pm
I'm following the Norway chess tournament on chess24.
Does anyone understand the standings numbers, particularly in the scores, the second number.
Normally this would be the number of games played or the max points available to the player so far. With the armageddon game played after a draw, chess24 publishes some weird numbers:
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by J T Melsom » Thu Sep 09, 2021 5:21 pm
Paulo
I think you have answered your own question. Similar issues arise in Open tournaments where players have games not on live boards. Chess 24 appears to add all games played by participants that have been broadcast to the summary tables rather than the relevant score.
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by Christopher Kreuzer » Thu Sep 09, 2021 5:25 pm
I'm finding it even harder to follow the Online FIDE Olympiad (and trying to work out why no-one is commenting on or posting the scores on this forum)? [sorry to go off-topic]
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by Ian Thompson » Thu Sep 09, 2021 5:50 pm
Paolo Casaschi wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 5:10 pm
Does anyone understand the standings numbers, particularly in the scores, the second number.
The total score the player could have got from all the games played, ignoring the fact that the Armageddon wouldn't have been played if the Classical game had been decisive. It's also being updated live, so it includes the results of completed Round 3 classical games, but not the as yet unfinished Round 3 Armageddon games.
For example:
- Karjakin (3.5 total) - 3 points if he'd won the Round 2 Classical game plus 0.5 points if he'd won the Round 2 Armageddon game; nothing for Round 1 as not yet played; nothing for Round 3 as not yet finished
- Rapport (9.5 total) - 3 points from the Round 1 Classical game, 0 points from the Round 1 Armageddon game because it wasn't played; 3.5 points from the Round 2 Classical and Armageddon games combined; 3 points from the Round 3 Classical game, 0 points from the Round 3 Armageddon game because it hasn't been played yet
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by Matt Mackenzie » Sat Sep 11, 2021 3:21 pm
Rapport clearly leading at the moment, Carlsen yet to win a classical game.
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by Tim Harding » Sat Sep 11, 2021 6:07 pm
Nepo up to second (7.5/13) after crushing Karjakin's Berlin.
His 17 Nf6! was impressive and despite seeing it coming (Karjakin spent 13 minutes on his previous move), the Russian was unable to find a good answer. After 21 minutes he played the fatal 17...Bxa2.
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by JustinHorton » Sat Sep 11, 2021 6:38 pm
For what it's worth Lysyj and Ovetchkin's 2012 book prefers 14...Bb4 which was played in MVL v Nakamura (2019) among other games. They also mention 14...Rd8 but give only 15...Bxd8 instead of Karjakin's king capture.
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by Mick Norris » Sun Sep 12, 2021 10:39 am
Standings according to chess24 with everyone having played 4 rounds now
Nepo (7) v Rapport (8.5) is the big clash today
Karjakin (4) v Carlsen (6)
Firouzja (3) v Tari (3)
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by Tim Harding » Sun Sep 12, 2021 8:26 pm
Rapport still leads after losing the armageddon to Nepo.
Karjakin-Carlsen and Firouzja-Tari both won by White in Classical.
Scores after five rounds according to chess24:
Rapport 9.5/16.5
Nepo 8.5/17
Karjakin 7/16.5
Carlsen 6/17
Firouzja 6/16.5
Tari 3/16.5
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by Matt Mackenzie » Sun Sep 12, 2021 9:14 pm
Well that's a good recovery for Karjakin from yesterday!
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