I've completed the Caissa GM tournament and finished with 6/10. I guess it's not a bad score, considering I scored 1.5 points from my first 4 games but it really could have been much better than this. I'll be putting up the games and allow readers to feel the same frustration that I'm going through now and I promise to stop moaning about it soon.
Anyway, round 1 was against a talented 12 year old boy who's rating was 2286 but I saw on the FIDE website that he will be gaining 50 elo points on the next list. This means he is a much better player than his elo suggests and I had a hard time deciding which line to play for a win with Black against him. As I've spent a lot of time looking at Fernandez's article on SCN and Simon Williams book on the Dragadorf, I thought it's a good idea to try to surprise him with it.
Excellent game! Final crosstable?
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'll try to find one and put it up soon.
ReplyDeleteThe final cross-table tells that you have won the GM event outright. All media in Singapore should be alerted immediately. Singapore rocks and rules the world of chess, thanks to none other than IM Kevin Goh!!
ReplyDeleteOk...that's a bit over the top....:)
ReplyDeleteYeah, I did win the event but I wasn't anywhere close to a GM norm so it's nothing special.
You are wrong. Winning a GM tournament is more special than gaining a GM norm.
ReplyDeleteI beg to differ. I am not trying to be modest here as my friends will know :). The GMs have no real motivation to fight except to preserve their elo which explains their tendencies to draw with each other. Of course it is nice to win the event but making a norm is the only result that will make the tournament count for something.
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