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2021 MCC City of Melbourne Open: Pairing of round 4, at 19:15 of 22/02/2021 ...

I find it great that people are coming to use more environmentally friendly sources of electricity. We have a responsibility to preserve our planet...

Popygin won his maiden tournament in Singapore. Hopefully, he will keep on improving.

I blundered a knight in a totally winning position against Julia...but had a very tough game with Michael! Anyway, 2/3 vs yours 1/5/3 :).

It does seem interesting to see such a large average gain. Then again, without many OTB tournaments, hundreds of juniors have been stuck at home...

No. Name Title FIDE ACF Federation State 1 Melkumyan, H GM 2663 2738 Armenia 13302485 P 2 Smirnov, A ...

Nice 3 0 match between Naroditsky and Nepo

Entries now stand at 146.Record is 147 in 2016. https://www.ballaratchess.com/begonia/commonfiles/history.html

A big plus: According to the tournament's website, GM Ian Rogers will provide Live Commentary again as it proved so popular in previous years.

"until the club closes (around 9.30pm)" I was told last Allegro that the social night is until late.

not sure

I don't know about Fritz, but Tarrasch uses Stockfish, and it corners me in 20 moves, even from a bad starting position.

Yes, what is he up to these days?

@ Scott Nor Rogers ...

HEHE ... I thought that I had that one already, but I was wrong ... One of the times I have beaten Michael was at the 12-01-2019 and at the...

I think yes as well

OK, I'll go first. Yes.

That's right - Ian's other tournament in the period was the Tas. Rapid. You posted his TPR as 1829 for that event (using Pappubahry's calculator)....

It was an average 55-point gain on the Classic list in WA as well (for players who played games), with three players losing points, and 28 players...

Those 12 players I listed increased on average by ~39pts.

I've just checked the whole list and for the 41 Tas players who played on the Quick list this period and were active on the Quick list last period...

Rating Changes from December to March for players who had games in that period (Rapid) (Top 20 for March List) James Peirce 2008-2078 Toby Straton...

So are you coming this time, or what? ;)

Many have played large numbers but Toby Straton who performed very strongly in the tournament hasn't played that many. All the ratings are more...

Ian played in the Launceston cup, Zach played in the LCC Northern Allegro. The rating changes do seem a bit odd?

Thanks. I missed it because there seems to be no link from the "register" page to the "entries" page -- but only under the registrations tab near the...

It does look a bit odd. Another example? At a glance: Burnie submitted 1 tournament. Leon finished with 0/7 and improved his rating from 1089 to...

I'm not sure I like the theoretical 1st round draw with the current number of entrants. :eek:

I was quite surprised I went from 2008 to 2078 rapid rating for 5.5/7. Was probably because the draw and loss were both to unrated players (with...