#558 Summer Tourney Stats

By master

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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