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David vs. Goliath: Upsets of the Week
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Wednesday, 26 December 2012 |
By candidate master Peter Zhdanov, editor of Pogonina.com
In this special weekly column we will be looking at the most unexpected upsets that happened last week. Players usually face opponents of a comparable level. Considerably less frequent are situations when a significantly lower-rated player succeeds in beating a much stronger adversary.
A delicate question that I would like to address today is that some of the results featured in our weekly hit list may be a product of cheating. In fact, a few GMs have expressed their opinion that Borislav Ivanov's recent performance was too good to be true for a players of his level. However, presumption of innocence is still in place, so his games haven't been removed from the top-10.
Top-10 upsets:
Bohak (2068) - Gunsek (1603), 0-1, 465 points
Spelec (2066) - Murko (1634), 0-1, 432 points
Kozul (2638) - Ivanov (2227), 0-1, 411 points
Kukurin (1802) - Babic (2177), 1-0, 375 points
Murk0 (1634) - Tolic (1976), 1-0, 342 points
Ivanov (2227) - Kurajica (2565), 1-0, 338 points
Kevlishvili (1941) - Mamejarova (2277), 1-0, 336 points
Ivanov (2227) - Zelcic (2560), 1-0, 323 points
Senders (1967) - Pel (2288), 1-0, 321 points
Vogel (2166) - Plat (2483), 1-0, 317 points
Average gap: 366; White won 7 games, Black won 3 games
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Related reading:
Episode 8
Episode 7
Episode 6
Episode 5
Episode 4
Episode 3
Episode 2
Episode 1
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Alexey Dreev won Russian Rapid Grand Prix Final
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Sport Accord World Mind Games
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Thursday, 20 December 2012 |
The World Mind Sport Games have been taking place since 2008 in five disciplines - chess, checkers, go, bridge and Chinese chess. This year's edition was held in Bejing, China. Many of the world's top players decided to take part in rapid, blitz and blindfold chess competitions. Here are the tournament results:
Rapid chess, men
The results of the rapid competition were sensational indeed - very few people expected Laurent Fressinet to win, while the reigning World Rapid Chess Champion Sergey Karjakin and such elite GMs as Levon Aronian and Vassily Ivanchuk finished close to the end of the tournament standings.
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Rapid chess, women
The rapid women's event was hard-fought and went to Kateryna Lahno, who had a better tie-break score than Hou Yifan, Koneru Humpy and Anna Muzychuk. The World Women's Rapid Chess Champion Antoaneta Stefanova finished 7th.
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Blitz chess, men
Sergey Karjakin won the blitz section convincingly with a 1.5 point lead over Hikaru Nakamura, who, in his own turn, managed to score 2 points more than the players who shared 3-5 places. World Blitz Chess Champion Alexander Grischuk was placed 7th.
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Blitz chess, women
Ex-Women's World Chess Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk is known for her remarkable blitz skills. She won the competition ahead of Anna Muzychuk (who had the same number of points and a worse tie-break score).
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Blinfold chess, men
Levon Aronian finally broke his string of upsetting performances and won the blindfold division. The main disappointment was Alexander Morozevich's result. After all, he is known as one of the best blindfold chess players in history.
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Blindfold chess, women
The youngest Women's World Chess Champion (and already a former one) Hou Yifan achieved a great result in blindfold chess - 6/7. Her only loss came to Viktoria Cmilyte, who got silver. Anna Zatonskih finished at clear third.
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The images are (C) of the official website
Related materials:
Photo gallery from WSMG-2008
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David vs. Goliath: Upsets of the Week
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Wednesday, 19 December 2012 |
by Candidate Master Peter Zhdanov
In this special weekly column we will be looking at the most unexpected upsets that happened last week. Players usually face opponents of a comparable level. Considerably less frequent are situations when a significantly lower-rated player succeeds in beating a much stronger adversary.
A few of the games have been played in a rapid chess event, hence the large rating gaps.
Top-10 upsets:
Vasquez Garrido (1458) - Sandoval Lopez (2172), 714 points (new record!)
Male (2119) - Rublevsky (2688), 1-0, 569 points
Gosciniak (2099) - Nyzhnyk (2637), 1-0, 538 points
Khamidov (2095) - Miton (2626), 1-0, 531 points
Goh (1794) - Medina (2313), 1-0, 519 points
Lim (1863) - De Ramos (2362), 1-0, 499 points
Sandoval (1485) - Pabol Sarmiento (1952), 1-0, 467 points
Minina (2057) - Bryzgalin (2485), 1-0, 428 points
Trubchaninov (1939) - Rozhko (2359), 1-0, 420 points
Pushkov (2404) - Sunzhukhanov (1986), 0-1, 418 points
Average gap: 510 points (new record!); White won 9 games, Black won 1 game
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Related reading:
Episode 7
Episode 6
Episode 5
Episode 4
Episode 3
Episode 2
Episode 1
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