2008 Championship

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Tournaments

28 Nov 07

Swiss Toni

New York

Joined: 23 Mar 07
Moves: 143149

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.

backfrom1994

Joined: 13 Apr 06
Moves: 21742

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?

Tyrannosauruschex

Mr T

I pity the fool!

Joined: 22 Jan 05
Moves: 22874

04 Jan 08

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

Swiss Toni

New York

Joined: 23 Mar 07
Moves: 143149

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

Joined: 18 Aug 03
Moves: 54533

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

Squelchbelch

Joined: 14 Jul 06
Moves: 20541

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...

Pocketaces

Joined: 12 Dec 07
Moves: 2914

06 Jan 08

upset in group 1

Surtism

Prof.

Blighty

Joined: 05 Jun 07
Moves: 137855

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!

Tyrannosauruschex

Mr T

I pity the fool!

Joined: 22 Jan 05
Moves: 22874

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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Best Loser

Traxler is Sound!

Joined: 14 Nov 06
Moves: 17862

08 Jan 08

This rules.. so exciting...

CalWriter

Creative Genius

Literary Lion Land

Joined: 12 Sep 04
Moves: 75934

08 Jan 08

Originally posted by Aiko
How about a banded championship added to the overall championship?

I really like this idea!

CalWriter

Creative Genius

Literary Lion Land

Joined: 12 Sep 04
Moves: 75934

08 Jan 08

1 edit

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?

irontigran

Joined: 26 Jun 06
Moves: 59283

08 Jan 08

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

Tyrannosauruschex

Mr T

I pity the fool!

Joined: 22 Jan 05
Moves: 22874

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.

Ponderable

chemist

Linkenheim

Joined: 22 Apr 05
Moves: 670011

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.