| 3rd Cairns Cup (2023) |
Name: 3rd Cairns Cup
Event Date: June 3 - 13, 2023
Site: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Format: 9-player round-robin
Time Control: 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with a
30-second increment beginning from move 1.
Official Website: https://uschesschamps.com/2023-cair...Previous: 2nd Cairns Cup (2020)
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Jun-07-23
 | | HeMateMe: Pretty strong field. Alex K started off in good form. |
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Jun-07-23
 | | offramp: Any idea who Cairns is? I know of a Cairns, it's a little village near Canberra. |
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Jun-07-23
 | | DaltriDiluvi: <offramp: Any idea who Cairns is?> Rex Sinquefield's wife Jeanne was called "Jeanne Cairns" before she became Mrs. Sinquefield. (Source: https://uschesschamps.com/2023-cair... ) |
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Jun-07-23
 | | Stonehenge: May I ask what the Cup size is?
No, I may not. |
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Jun-07-23
 | | MissScarlett: Humpy has withdrawn from the event due to illness and her previous games have been cancelled. |
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Jun-07-23
 | | Check It Out: If Irina beats a rude player we will have a pun in the wings: Cairn Krush. Be on the lookout for Carlsen-like behavior and report back. |
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Jun-08-23
| | HeMateMe: <<offramp: Any idea who Cairns is?>> I think it's a song on the terrific ELP album <Tarkus>, from the early '70s. |
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Jun-08-23
| | HeMateMe: Anna Z and Krush dueling at the top, a familiar situation. |
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| Jun-08-23 | | jphamlore: I don't know if this position with White to move after 28. ... ♔e8 from N Dzagnidze vs B Khotenashvili, 2023 will qualify as a puzzle. Anyone can come up with the plausible only-move candidate. The real question is whether one can carry the calculation to enough depth to prove the win. 
click for larger viewUnfortunately, not only did White not play the only move to retain advantage, but the move chosen helped lead to White's losing the game. |
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Jun-09-23
| | MissScarlett: The cancelled games involving Humpy are separately available: Cairns Cup (2023) |
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Jun-09-23
| | Check It Out: <HMM: I think it's a song on the terrific ELP album <Tarkus>> No, but that album does have the song Eruption, which Eddie Van Halen famously covered on the VH debut album in 1992. |
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| Jun-09-23 | | oolalimk1: what ? no Americans ? |
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Jun-09-23
| | Check It Out: Zatonskih and Krush have both been adopted by the US from Ukraine, but you make a good point about a competition taking place in the US that's designed to promote the game of chess to females. You'd think there'd be some local-borns participating. |
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Jun-10-23
 | | keithbc: VH debut album was 1978 |
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Jun-10-23
| | HeMateMe: The ELP song is carin # 5 |
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Jun-11-23
 | | piltdown man: Actually, it's closer to Hobart. |
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Jun-11-23
| | Check It Out: Circling back here, Karn was on Brain Salad Surgery not Tarkus. My Van Halen misinformation was a jab at HeMateMe's consistently wrong details. |
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Jun-14-23
| | HeMateMe: At LEAST I knew it was ELP. Don't be such a prig, dammit... |
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