David vs. Goliath: Upsets of the Week |
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| Tuesday, 16 July 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 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 similar level. Considerably less frequent are situations when a significantly lower-rated player succeeds in beating a much stronger adversary. The record has been broken again: 39 (!) upsets will be featured this week. Top-10: DuToit (1809) - Cawdery (2345), 1-0, 536 points Cretnik (1820) - Schneider (2355), 1-0, 535 points Kula (2345) - Smieszek (1843), 0-1, 502 points Badzgaradze (1614) - Leks (2109), 1-0, 495 points Pipiska (1676) - Banduka (2168), 1-0, 492 points Valkarma (1414) - Rantamo (1879), 1-0, 465 points Dzikowski (1904) - Lanc (2365), 1-0, 461 point Solomon (2410) - Kromhout (1952), 0-1, 458 points Bratkovic (2012) - Drozdowski (2456), 1-0, 444 points Holtman (1725) - Demeter (2168), 1-0, 443 points Average gap: 483; White won 8 games, Black won 2 games Replay the games Last week we have received this message. We publish it as it is, without editing the wording or punctuation: Hello I enclose you 4 very recent matches. 2 from Pere Garriga (14 year old) and 2 from Javier Amores (18 year old), Three in pgn and one here at chess results: Amores- IM Vehí All matches against IM, and very interesting, in my opinion, and in Kind regards.
While only 2 of the 4 games qualify as "upsets" according to our strict standards (300 points difference or above), we decided to publish all the 4 of them: View the games If you have ever won a game against someone rated 300 points or above of yourself, please send it to us for publication. Any additional information (a photo, annotations, etc.) will be appreciated. Related reading: Episode 33 Episode 32 Episode 31 Episode 30 Episode 29 Episode 28 Episode 27 Episode 26 Episode 25 Episode 24 Episode 23 Episode 22 Episode 21 Episode 20 Episode 19 Episode 18 Episode 17 Episode 16 Episode 15 Episode 14 Episode 13 Episode 12 Episode 11 Episode 10 Episode 9 Episode 8 Episode 7 Episode 6 Episode 5 Episode 4 Episode 3 Episode 2 Episode 1
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