2008 Championship

2008 Championship

Tournaments

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Standard memberSwiss Toni

New York

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04 Jan 08

Originally posted by sannevssr
Yes, I have also seen a group with an average rating of 1100

Group 23 or 24 I think.
Group 23. But that average has been dragged down almost singlehandedly by doggoalie (592). Still, I'd rather be in that group than my lovely Group 78.

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Standard memberbackfrom1994

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04 Jan 08

Originally posted by backfrom1994
actually there are 909 participants. That means either 4 rounds or more than 9 per group per round.
Question for Russ: do you expect a round #4 or 13 or so player in the final 3rd round?

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Standard memberTyrannosauruschex
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04 Jan 08

How are people getting on so far? Any upsets yet?

Standard memberSwiss Toni

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04 Jan 08

For pure entertainment value, I'll add this: Game 4448443

But I've not seen any real upsets yet. They'll come though.

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Chesstralia

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05 Jan 08

Originally posted by backfrom1994
Question for Russ: do you expect a round #4 or 13 or so player in the final 3rd round?
ther will be about 115 roud two players ... if round two is groups size 10 then there will be about 12 in round 3

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06 Jan 08

Originally posted by flexmore
ther will be about 115 roud two players ... if round two is groups size 10 then there will be about 12 in round 3
I won't be one of them with 2 1800's & 1 1900 in my group.
I played the Grob as white in all my games.
What the hell...

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Standard memberPocketaces

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06 Jan 08

upset in group 1

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Blighty

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07 Jan 08

Originally posted by Pocketaces
upset in group 1
Not really an upset - DesertRat is a new player with a 10 win no loss game history - so probably his rating is unrepresentative of his true level.

Group 13 appears to be going to plan so far - sadly!

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Standard memberTyrannosauruschex
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07 Jan 08

I thought that, for anybody who has had their head under a rock for the last few weeks, it would be a good idea to post the link to the tournament itself.

Tournament 3116

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Traxler is Sound!

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08 Jan 08

This rules.. so exciting...

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Standard memberCalWriter
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08 Jan 08

Originally posted by Aiko
How about a banded championship added to the overall championship?
I really like this idea!

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Standard memberCalWriter
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Originally posted by Aiko
How about a banded championship added to the overall championship?
How about doing it like major OTB tournaments, with an open section and then the "class" sections? Then we would have an "open" champion as well as the banded champions?

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08 Jan 08

i got in a good group as well, im the 2nd highest with an 1800...

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09 Jan 08

Originally posted by CalWriter
How about doing it like major OTB tournaments, with an open section and then the "class" sections? Then we would have an "open" champion as well as the banded champions?
It has been suggested, but it makes the tournament less exciting as the 'open' section would only have a handul of players entering.

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chemist

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09 Jan 08

Well in fact we would have the old sandbagging discussion again...

And there are a lot of people who like to play players several hundred rating points over their level.