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 Replay the games Related reading: Episode 7 Episode 6 Episode 5 Episode 4 Episode 3 Episode 2 Episode 1
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