Archive for September 7th, 2009

#559 STC Championship sf – Wrap-Up

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Final WCL Section standings

  1. HaimPilosof 7.5
  2. jpmoldovan 7.0
  3. oswald137 4.5
  4. jps7 4.5
  5. chessforlove 4.0
  6. BrianWood 4.0
  7. gotleib 3.0
  8. JoshLawson 1.0 (withdrew after round 2)
  9. McKnights 0.0 (withdrew after round 1)
CBV with all 24 WCL games & results of the 13 other pairings.
PGN from rounds 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

In the ICC Championship section, my USATE teammate knightrunner (Arunas Simonaitis) tied for 3rd place at 6.5-2.5.

The finals take place on FICS this week & next.

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#558 Summer Tourney Stats

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Most Points Scored

  • Total – 14.0 Ian Mangion (+13-4=2)
  • With White – 5.0 Mangion (+5-1=0)
  • With Black – 9.0 Mangion (+8-4=2), Mark Kernighan (+9-1=0)

Highest Scoring of Possible Points (minimum 5 games)

  • Total – .923 Kernighan (+12-1=0)
  • With White – 1.000 Kernighan (+3-0=0)
  • With Black – .900 Kernighan (+9-1=0)

Highest Plus Score

  • Total – +11 Kernighan (+12=1=0)
  • With White – +4 Mangion
  • With Black – +8 Kernighan

Longest Unbeaten Streaks

  • Total – 11 Kernighan (+11-0=0 in weeks 1-11)
  • With White – 5 Mangion (+5-0=0 in weeks 1-12)
  • With Black – 9 John Moldovan (+5-0=4 in weeks 7-13)

Longest Winning Streaks

  • Total – 11 Kernighan
  • With White – 5 Mangion
  • With Black – 8 Kernighan

Most Games Played

  • Total – 20 Mangion
  • With White – 10 Joe Renna
  • With Black – 14 Mangion

Most Wins

  • Total – 13 Mangion
  • With White – 5 Mangion
  • With Black – 9 Kernighan

Most Losses

  • Total – 10 Bert Shiffman
  • With White – 6 Renna
  • With Black – 5 Shiffman

Most Draws

Total – 6 Moldovan
With White – 3 Max Sherer
With Black – 5 Moldovan

Biggest Upset

  • With White : Renna (-541) 1-0 Moldovan in round 6
  • Draw With Black : Sherer (-188) vs. Mangion in round 10
  • Win With Black : Tomkovich (-114) vs. Moldovan in round 5

honorable mentions :

  • Bill Sokolosky (-537) vs Geoff McAuliffe in round 3
  • David Pawlowski (-445) vs. Kernighan in round 12
  • Shiffman (-388) vs. McAuliffe in round 4
  • Renna (-329) vs. Lou Sturniolo in round 12
  • Gordon Agress (-323) vs. Sturniolo in round 9


Game Length

  • Fastest Win By White : Jim Cole… 21 moves vs. Shiffman, in round 2
  • Fastest Win by Black : Moldovan… 10 moves vs. Kruglyak, in round 11
  • Shortest Draw : Moldovan-Mangion… an 18 move fizzler in round 2
  • Longest Game : Pawlowski 1-0 Kernighan… 118 moves in round 12

Results Breakdown

  • Total Number Of Games – 99
  • Decisive Games – 89 (89.9%!)
  • White wins – 45 (45.5%)
  • Black wins – 44 (44.4%)
  • Draws – 10 (10.1%)
  • Pct. of Points Scored By White – .505
  • Pct. of Points Scored By Black – .495
  • W-L-D Record of the Higher-rated Player : 65-24-10
  • Pct. of Points Scored By the Higher-rated Player – .707

Miscellaneous (minimum 5 games)

  • Highest pct. of games won – .923 Kernighan
  • Highest pct. of games won or drawn – .923 Kernighan
  • Highest pct. of draws – .316 Moldovan
  • Scores Collected – 64 (64.6%)
  • Most Popular Openings : Nimzo-Indian Defense (10 of the 64 games collected; 12 if we include hybrid Q’s Indians) & Queen’s Gambit (10 games)
  • Most Popular e4 Defense : French Defense (7 games, including 2 by transposition)
  • Latest novelty : White’s 14.Bd3 in round 10’s McAuliffe-Moldovan

The 99 games played in this year’s KST smashed the previous, unofficial record of 86; which was set in 2006’s 14-week event.

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#557 Summer Tourney – Round 13

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Greg Tomkovich won twice to gain a share of 3rd place as I could manage just 0.5/2 against Max Sherer.

Mark Kernighan, David Pawlowski & Lou Sturniolo also took full points.

Results

  • Mangion 0-1 Kernighan
  • Moldovan 0-1 Sherer
  • Sherer ½-½ Moldovan
  • Tomkovich 1-0 Mazzillo
  • Wojcio 0-1 Tomkovich
  • Pawlowski 1-0 Renna
  • Shiffman 0-1 Sturniolo

Final Standings

  • 1. Mangion 14.0
  • 2. Kernighan 12.0
  • = 3. Moldovan, Tomkovich 11.0
  • 5. Carrelli 7.0
  • 6. Sherer 6.5
  • = 7. Pawlowski, Mann 5.0
  • 9. Renna 4.5
  • = 10. Sturniolo, Mazzillo 3.5
  • 12. Shiffman 3.0
  • 13. Cole 2.5
  • = 14. Lewis, Wojcio, Agress, Sokolosky 2.0
  • 18. McAuliffe 1.5
  • 19. Zhu 1.0
  • = 20. Hart, Kruglyak, Balint, Castillo, Ruales 0.0

Java replay
PGN
Final Crosstable

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Breaking news: Carlsen and Kasparov join forces

Monday, September 7th, 2009

It was the best-kept secret of the year: Magnus Carlsen, at 18 already the fourth highest ranked player in the world, has won the legendary Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest player in chess history, as his personal trainer. The goal is to make Magnus the world’s number one in the course of the coming year. The Norwegian newspaper VG has broken the news.

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