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| Dec-10-23 | | goodevans: Volokitin will beat a badly off-form McShane who's Jedi powers seem to have desserted him. That makes a four-way tie a real possibility. Much more likely, though, is that Mickey and Shreyas will indeed agree a draw giving Adams the half point he needs to stay ahead of Volokitin. If so then I think he'll only have a share of first as both Gukesh and Tabatabaei will be favourites to win their respective games. |
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Dec-10-23
 | | Sally Simpson: McShane - Voloktin a draw with Luke saccing half his chess set to get a perpetual. |
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Dec-10-23
| | Sally Simpson: Royal and Adams draw in 31 moves. Hans beats Dommaraju Gukesh. Bartel drew. Adams sole winner, with ATM a bunch tied for 2nd place. Just waiting on Tabatabaei - Moussard,(move 32) that evo bar thing says it's even but Tabatabaei is pressing and I think he could win this. |
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Dec-10-23
 | | chrisowen: Is clews right |
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Dec-10-23
| | Sally Simpson: Tabatabaei - Moussard (41)- Rooks are off. Two Bishops and two pawns each. All the pawns are passers, Whites are connected. Tabatabaei will play on till it is an obvious draw. |
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| Dec-10-23 | | EvanTheTerrible: If I was playing, I'd play 21. Bxg7 without thinking and worry about the consequences later. |
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| Dec-10-23 | | goodevans: <Tabatabaei will play on till it is an obvious draw.> He actually played on at least half a dozen moves longer than that until it became an Article 9.6 draw. Mickey the outright winner (hoorah!). |
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| Dec-10-23 | | GlennOliver: Congratulations to Mickey Adams on another excellent tournament. He took the Cambridge International Open back in February, and is now ending the year in style with outright victory in the London Chess Classic. |
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| Dec-10-23 | | EvanTheTerrible: Great result, but especially or his age. Happy to see him win. |
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| Dec-10-23 | | metatron2: Joining Adams congratulations..
Sole first with +3 score without a loss, in a field where most players are among the most talented youngsters in the world and are less than half his age. I remember I first heard of Michael Adams when he had an extra-ordinary result, half way through the Lloyds Bank tourney (which was kind of an older version of the current London Chess Classic tourney). I don't remember whether he was 12 or 14 yo at the time, but he had around 2450 level performance at that point, which was quite rare in the 80s (that was way before we had 13 yo GMs..). |
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| Dec-10-23 | | fabelhaft: Great to see Adams win, he has been a great player and nice guy forever. He has beaten Larsen who won against Bernstein who played Blackburne who was born in 1841. Not many steps to get very far back there. |
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| Dec-10-23 | | Cassandro: That's fascinating, <fabelhaft>. |
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Dec-11-23
 | | FSR: <fabelhaft> Adams has a Morphy number of 4 by virtue of having played MN3s Robert Wade, R G Wade vs Adams, 2008, and Borislav Ivkov, Adams vs Ivkov, 1991. So do I. L Barden vs F Rhine, 2010. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morph.... |
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| Dec-11-23 | | metatron2: Interesting <FSR>, I didn't know that in chess we have something similar to Erdos Number .. |
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Dec-11-23
| | FSR: <metatron2> There are also Bacon numbers for actors. https://oracleofbacon.org/ In chess, Morphy numbers are the best known, but you can have numbers for other famous players too. For example, I have a Tal number of 1, Tal vs F Rhine, 1988. That gives me numbers of 2 for myriad other players (Smyslov, Botvinnik, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, etc.), though I also have some "2" numbers
through other routes, e.g. F Rhine vs Yermolinsky, 2022 (Kasparov), V Pupols vs F Rhine, 1997 (Fischer), A Ivanov vs F Rhine, 1998 (Karpov). I have a Carlsen number of 2 by virtue of J Aagaard vs F Rhine, 2021. Not sure if I have a route to a Ding Liren 2. |
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Dec-11-23
| | Sally Simpson: Hi FSR,
Not too sure you can count an internet game. I'm a genuine OTB 4 as is about 50 players in Scotland due to Oliver Penrose who played in tournaments, and league matches. I thought there might be another route for Mickey and 100's of other players to have a P.N. of 4 having shaken hands OTB and touched the most famous pinky in chess. James Sherwin who I was sure was a P.N.3. |
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Dec-11-23
| | Sally Simpson: Hello again FSR,
Forgot to add, I have another path to P.N.4. This lad A G Laing played Mieses who had a P.N. of 2 (I'll get around to submitting his game v Mieses and his birth details etc for the Bio) ----
Mickey is having a good run. Last month he was the World over 50 champion and now this. He is beating up the old ones and the young ones. |
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Dec-11-23
 | | perfidious: <FSR>, for me, facing off with Bisguier, Benko, Browne and Lombardy covers the world champions from Euwe to Kasparov. Managed an Alekhine-2 through the unlikely route of Eugene J Salomon, and the one Capablanca-2 is Rossolimo. There are at least three Kramnik-2s (I Gurevich, Benjamin and Susan Polgar), two Topalov-2s, Alejandro Hoffman and Stephen Boyd, and Tal and Patrick Wolff are Anand-2s; there may well be others. Lugovoi is a Carlsen-2. The only Ding-2 in my little black book is Radjabov. |
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Dec-11-23
| | Sally Simpson: I have chatted with Ding and Carlsen and Anand and Karpov. Which is better than playing them because you do not talk to them when playing them. This way is more polite. I also have Korchnoi's autograph but we never spoke. What else?
I gave a signed copy of my book to Topalov. He's a good lad. Really charming. He gave a simul at the Edinburgh club and cracked a nobody goes to the toilet gag. But as usual I've been trumped by my wife who recently met King Charles and Queen Camilla. They are not chess players I tried to trump her back. "...er...King and Queen!" |
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Dec-11-23
 | | MissScarlett: I have chatted with Ding but he never spoke. |
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Dec-12-23
 | | HeMateMe: If one played Kevin Spraggett would that you give you six degrees of Canadian Bacon? |
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Dec-14-23
 | | Atterdag: I've chatted with the ghost of Robert James and he said he's sorry for everything, also for wearing an ugly sweater at the Candidates 1959. |
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| Dec-14-23 | | Cassandro: <Atterdag> Yeah, not a pretty sight. https://www.google.no/search?q=cand... |
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Dec-14-23
| | Atterdag: <Cassandro>. In the latest issue of New in Chess, there is a story about Fischer consulting the always well-dressed Paul Keres about getting a proper suit. Keres could refer to a taylor in London, and apparently the youngster adapted the formal style, as it appears from the other photos in your link. He was never seen in a sweater again AFAIK. :-) |
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Jul-13-24
 | | MarcusBierce: Considering that Adams took a draw against Gukesh in a winning position, his result here is all the more impressive. |
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