by scribe | Aug 12, 2013 | current news, tournaments
After a good first day, my predictions did not do so well in Day 2 of the World Cup. Let’s recap the results: Upset Specials: Six players pulled upsets without even needing to go to the playoffs. I picked only one of the six, Dubov (75), who beat Fedorchuk (54)....
by scribe | Aug 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
The World Cup has begun! On the first day, my predictions did all right. In the 64 games, the lower-rated players scored +9 -27 =28, which I think is probably a little bit more upsets than you would expect. The nine “full point” upsets were: Sambuev (113)...
by scribe | Aug 10, 2013 | current news, ruminations, tournaments
The FIDE World Cup starts tomorrow in Tromsø, Norway, and I was excited to see at the official Web page that you can fill out a bracket to predict the winners. Although I think the knockout format (with two-game matches followed by tiebreaks) is dreadful for actually...
by scribe | Aug 4, 2013 | chess clubs, games, positions
I don’t usually blog about speed games, but I played one on Friday night against Gjon Feinstein that was pretty darned entertaining… First, you have to understand that Gjon beats me about 90 percent of the time in speed chess. However, this game was the...
