Sounds good to me. You and I have gained some measure of wisdom and self-control through our days of age - we should not expect the same from a 17 year old - IMHO. I don't know if that's arrogance or not since arrogance, like beauty, is mostly in the eye of the beholder, so I'll let the readers decide. It also does not rely on additional tiebreak games played at faster time controls which, IMO, have no relevance in determining the better player in a tournament played at slower time controls. It was a really tough game, and I think happiness will come later," said van Foreest after this game, not realizing how prophetic these words would be. So Giri would outscore him in SB points even if he won. The Tata Steel Chess India rapid and blitz event will see a three-fold increase in prize money and the best of stars in action in its second edition, to be held at the Bhasha Bhawan auditorium of the iconic National Library here from November 22 to 26. Grandelius initially defended well but got low on time and at one point collapsed. So a draw was the likely outcome even if Firouzja was "rattled" by the situation. However, the first move after the time control is still a transition-move, where players take the time to relax, to realize what was going on during the time trouble, what is going on the board now, and how they want to move on. A great idea. pic.twitter.com/Nt79LHNQMN. The only requirement for SB and other tiebreak schemes to be valid is that all the games for a round need to have been completed. There is a good possibility that he was totally focused on his game, and just got up to relax a bit, instead of trying to calculate whether he qualified or not. 1 Van Foreest 21 2671 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 8½ and there is a reason for that. And in a game between two human players, particularly with a short amount of time, that's not likely to happen. Jorden van Foreest defeated Nils Grandelius in round 13 to catch up with Anish Giri, who managed to hold a draw from a worse position against David Anton. Many people consider the situation a disgrace and complain about how poorly Firouzja was treated. (3) Firouzja had to win and hope that Giri would do no better than a draw in order for Firouzja to score the same number of points as Giri. The Tata Steel Chess Tournament took place on January 16-31 as an over-the-board 14-player single round robin. - The organizers (publicly) apologized to Firouzja, - Firouzja (partially) accepted their apology, but did not apologize for his behavior. Nothing in violation of United States law. While the playoff was underway, he spoiled his promising position, and afterward, he was very angry at the arbiters and shouted at the main organizer. Van Foreest’s was the third-lowest ranked player in the tournament, which ended in a spectacular tiebreak, but has now risen from 66th to 37th in the world rankings. I don't think that you understand how the Elo rating system as implemented by FIDE works. If you prefer black playing Caro-can instead, then white has the following (main) structures that black should be familiar with: The advanced variation (that you gave here), the classical variation, the exchange variation, the panov variation, and maybe count the two-knights variation as well (although that one usually transposes to the classical or the exchange pawn structures). The 21-year-old grandmaster defeated his compatriot GM Anish Giri in a dramatic playoff after both had finished on 8.5/13. From this it's not hard for his team to figure out before the beginning of the last round that: (1) If Firouzja and Caruana both won they would both finish with the same 8.5 score but Caruana would be ahead in SB score, 50.50 to 50.25. And just because you "tend" to think something instead of actually thinking it, or basing it on an "intuitive feeling" does not prevent you from explaining why you think, tend to think, or have an intuitive feeling for something. If a tie between three or more players the ones to play the Blitz playoff would be decided by 1) mutual result, 2) Sonneborn-Berger score, 3) N games with black, 4) drawing of lots. I recognized even then that I needed "evidence". You can try to figure it out using opening databases, but its problematic. Not that it matters, you can continue to think, tend to think, or have an intuitive feeling about whatever you wish to post about. (3) Giri had to lose or draw and Firouzja had to win in order to qualify for the tie breaker match. The Tata Steel Chess Tournament runs January 16-31, 2021. Rest days: 20, 25 and 28 January. I also agree, and the only thing that I would change in this statement is the insertion of the word "far" between the words "has" and "bigger". think that the K-factor change had an affect on the 2400+ rated players pool.>. See, for example: Good luck following this approach to try to compensate for your inability to come up with a coherent argument against something that I or someone else said in a post. In reality, four more moves were made, and Giri turned out to be the last to blunder. 2 Giri 26 2764 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 8½ Here's a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t16...) where the commentator says that Firouzja was only informed that he was not in contention for the first place tiebreaker even if he were to win this game. No, of course the Rules and Regulations didn't say that. then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion. II: Who behaved badly and why? After all, I had the "evidence". Giri: Score = 8.0, SB = 46.25 "I have to give a big shoutout to my second, GM Max Warmerdam," said van Foreest. You just add the score of each of the defeated opponents and half the score of the drawn opponents. "On top of the world," was Van Foreest's answer to the question of all questions—how he felt after winning the super-tournament in Wijk aan Zee. Vol. Rest days: 20, 25 and 28 January. And for each tournament I check my calculated SB score against published SB scores and, ever since I've fixed all the bugs in my spreadsheet (or at least the ones involving SB score calculation! 2. See something that violates our rules? I don't know weather Firouzja was aware of some strange regulations they wrote and later removed from their site. The 2021 edition of the “chess Wimbledon” at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee will go down as perhaps the most remarkable, surprising and controversial of all … Now, how do we decide what is a mainline pawn structure and who gives the tone: That's mainly comes with experience. . 13 Vachier-Lagrave 30 2784 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * 1 5 There is a point when you stop being a gentleman." If they didn't inform Firouzja of this then it's time for Firouzja to have a heart-to-heart talk with them about what their responsibilities are. So, as himself said (Tata Steel Masters (2021) (kibitz #417)) "There is a threshold for the level of stupidity and its resulting damage, that one can take. Tata Steel Chess 2021 Супертурнир в Вейк-ан-Зее 10 тур. That was the fault of the arbitrators for not doing that. visit the Kibitzer's Café. What was I to do? I don't know that, but I can assume things based on your output. The Tata Steel Masters 2021 is scheduled to be the 83rd edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament and to take place in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands, from 15 January to 31 January 2021. On Chess: 2021 Tata Steel Chess Tournament Crowns New Champion Denes Boros | St. Louis Chess Club The 2021 Tata Steel Chess Tournament ended with a surprising win. Tour participants will compete for a total prize fund of $1.275 million over the course of the 2021 season. Esipenko: Score = 7.0, SB = 41.75 Carlsen Wins 81st Tata Steel Chess Tournament. Blitz is just a coin flip basically.". So now you resort to ad hominem attack? "On top of the world," was Van Foreest's answer to the question of all questions—how he felt after winning the super-tournament in Wijk aan Zee. I gave a detailed and fully coherent explanation there, as to why I told that the K-factor mechanism can be used to protect higher rated players, as long as it is line with the purpose of the rating system (including its K-factor of course, which is one of its mechanisms). I was in pre-school, maybe 4 years old (early 1950s), and had been admitted to a class even though my birthday was later than the cut-off date for that particular class. (Image: Jurriaan Hoefsmit/Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021) The 18-year-old Esipenko beat Carlsen in their first-ever classical chess meeting, thoroughly outplaying the Norwegian from start to finish. 8 Tari 21 2625 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 6 Does that mean that for any rating system we all have to consider what is "natural" and "unnatural" for that system? that's new for you (as far as I recall..). I regard you as a very intelligent man, AK, and while you have a point for your argumentation, you didn't need to set this tone towards the equally intelligent . Some viewers must have felt uncomfortable with the fact that a 13-round classical tournament is decided in a time scramble like this—especially the ones who were rooting for Giri. So Firouzja had to hope that Caruana did not win. After all, the world has bigger problems these days than the outburst of frustration by a 17 year old kid. So the total is around 11-15 pawns structures with black. 9 Grandelius 27 2663 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ * 1 ½ ½ 1 1 6 USCF rating system for example, have rating floor between 100-150, and original life masters have rating floor of 2200 there. Chess is played on a squared board with 62 high contrast rotating squares ..." More gobbledygook, and a chessboard has 64 squares. So, if you are in time trouble, why aren't you sitting at the table waiting to make your next move as soon as possible? 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So presumably both players have had the 15 minutes for the post-60 moves added to their clock. And the SB score includes the players' results against all other players rather than using a narrower criteria such as head-to-head competition, number of total wins, total number of wins as Black, etc. But weather he knew it or not, is not the point about this incident. 7 Harikrishna 34 2732 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 6½ Van Foreest won the toss and chose to play with the black pieces. GM Fabiano Caruana, who could still catch the leaders, had little chance for more than a draw against GM Aryan Tari, but that cannot be said about GM Alireza Firouzja. "He went for a plan in the middlegame, which probably wasn't very good," explained Carlsen. What's "natural" to me might be "unnatural" to you and vice versa. Why? And BTW , your comparison between Firoujza and Wojtaszek is unfair because of the their different tournament situation, and also because it was Firoujza's turn (and also it was his clock that was still running). 14 Donchenko 22 2668 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 * 3½. So I don't think that there's any justifiable excuse for Firouzja's temper tantrum. (2) If Firouzja drew and Esipenko won, both would finish with the same 8.0 score but Firouzja would be ahead in SB score, 50.25 to 49.25. But perhaps a better name for this series might be "AylerKupp / Metatron2 on Our Great Discussions.". The later also lists some of the other tiebreak systems used by FIDE. Firouzja was visibly disturbed (understandably so) and refused to leave the table. which tie break system is used in the tournament(! They draw conclusions about people they don't know at all, based on things that those people say or write. Tournament director: Jeroen van den Berg. A big part of van Foreest's success was his final-round win against GM Nils Grandelius, and that win was largely based on his highly successful opening preparation. Age Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 Van Foreest continued playing the engine's preferred choices, including the wonderful 21.Nb5!. Last night the organisers felt compelled to make a public apology after Firouzja got visibly upset when the arbiters, preparing for a playoff, […] is a standard response. Official 1st place prize is only €10,000 / $13,200 at Tata Steel, and decreases in halves from there. The regular round saw two more decisive games. Winning a Pyrrhic victory takes a heavy toll that negates any true sense of achievement or damages long-term progress.>. I once wrote why I consider you as one of the best posters in CG: Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge (2020) (kibitz #296). On the decisive moment, at the end of today's armageddon game, over 80,000 online viewers were watching the combined Chess.com broadcast streams (Twitch, YouTube, and international channels), and more than 700,000 watched over the course of the day. Maybe that's another indication that sometimes you miss the context of the text? End Date. From Chess Openings (which, at this moment, is #8 on Amazon's list of best-selling chess books, no doubt because of the fake reviews): "Champ is picked by whoever unravels the chessboard puzzle. And you don't condone bad behavior - neither do I, but I grant some forebearance to an eager young player, who, in the heat of an important battle is being interrupted by organizers who could and should have been more tactful and creative in the execution of those rules & regulations. ", "In general, it's a very risky line for White," van Foreest added. It is also very much likely, that prior to the game, Firouzja focused on his chess preparations (in order to try and win the game), instead of calculating all possible scenarios of tie breaks (that might also damage his motivation to win that game..). I find the commentary in the second video more persuasive. These are incredible numbers for over-the-board tournament play, normally only seen during world championships. Regarding the claim (from both you and ), that Firouzja reacted with temper because he is young: Well I agree that with age, one usually becomes more composed, even though it can degrade when he gets old (grumpy old men and all that..).
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