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SPR
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SPR
He wasn't battling for first place as I understand it. Still poor though.
Feb 2021
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JulesR
The arbiters when they told his game to move tables also told Firojza that he wouldn’t be in the tiebreak game anyhow as others had a better tournament record.

Hearing that info at the time wouldn’t be great for his state of mind trying to finish out his game, win & get into the world’s top 10.
Feb 2021
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BrianJ
In my days playing over the board (usually in cramped venues) it was off-putting if people nearby were playing rapid/blitz banging out moves when you were playing a competitive slow play match - I guess that's why they wanted to move the Firouja game away from the play off game. Still not good organisation though for a top tournament.
Feb 2021
8:18pm, 2 Feb 2021
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JulesR
Looking at the panorama photo of the 7 boards, there was plenty of room to play the tiebreaker well away from Firouja’s board. He was on board 4, board 1 was available at the far end & cameras were filming each board.
Feb 2021
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Diogenes
I’ve lost to Em, again. I messed up badly but Em’s accuracy, according to the machine, is very high.
Feb 2021
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Maclennane
My son is concerned that Iain might be the person responsible for launching Apex Legends and that my game against him is holding him up
Feb 2021
9:44pm, 2 Feb 2021
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Maclennane
Just tried to offer Weath a game and it refused saying "max rating is too low"....
Feb 2021
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iaincr
Well played Maclennane, was holding on grimly hoping you’d stalemate as we got to the end. Too many pawns left for you was my downfall
Feb 2021
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bish
I found this Eric Rosen video really interesting and useful (You can skip the first 8 minutes if you like.)

He studies a rook ending from one of his games and then goes back and uses the computer to analyse and explain a couple of mistakes in both his and his opponent's play in the ending. The whole thing is in lichess but you can do similar analysis on chess.com. You may well have to pause and rewind a few times - he's fast!

https://youtu.be/OEcraAD7oOM
Feb 2021
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Maclennane
Thanks Iain, enjoyed it. Was really stuck for a breakthrough for ages, and it was probably just one error determining the game

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