Irish Championship Tipping Competition

cdeb

The link above. Or on chess results.com

Edit - http://chess-results.com/tnr357006.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=2

sodacat11

Found it.
Sodacat (3) Wins for Li, Tom O'Gorman and Jessel

Retd.LoyolaCpt

RLC (3)

Win for Henry
Win/Draw for Moran

Tim Harding

sodacat11 wrote: »

Found it.
Sodacat (3) Wins for Li, Tom O'Gorman and Jessel

Hang on, please explain. Your round one prediction was: Draws for Fox, Scott and Carroll.

Carroll drew so that's 1; Scott lost but apparently you are claiming 2 for predicting a Fox draw when he actually won (thanks at least in part to Stephen not pressing the clock on time at time 40).

If you are claiming 2 for that then I have 2 also, please clarify.

Maybe a better system for the future would be like the old treble chance on the football pools. We pick 3 games and score according to whether it is a Home (higher seed) win, Away (lower seed) win or a Draw, but with the "Away" win rather than the Draw getting the highest score?

Maybe it's not too late to switch to that scoring system? I will do my predictions in the morning when I get your feedback on this.

Autochange

cdeb wrote: »

The golfer fella?

No not the golfer! Richard McGinley

Past_Pawn_99

PP99 (0) Win for Scott and Li, Draw for Short

Tim Harding

Tim Harding predictions (current score 0 or 2? see query above):
WINS for Collins and Li; DRAW for Moran

cdeb

Tim Harding wrote: »

Carroll drew so that's 1

It's 1 point for predicting a seeded win, 3 for predicting a draw, and 5 for predicting an unseeded win

sodacat11

Tim Harding wrote: »

Hang on, please explain. Your round one prediction was: Draws for Fox, Scott and Carroll.

Carroll drew so that's 1; Scott lost but apparently you are claiming 2 for predicting a Fox draw when he actually won (thanks at least in part to Stephen not pressing the clock on time at time 40).

If you are claiming 2 for that then I have 2 also, please clarify.

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I'm not quite sure which part of "THREE POINTS FOR A DRAW" you don't understand.Everyone else seemed to get it.

sodacat11

Autochange wrote: »

No not the golfer! Richard McGinley

Who the hell is Richard Mc Ginley??????

ChessPlayer123

ChessPlayer123 (1) predicts win for Tirziman and draws for Daly and Li

EnPassant

EnPassant (0) - draws for the 3 lowest rated players with white - Dermot Nolan, Zalan Nemeth and Peter Cafolla.

There are 3 players with the same rating in the tournament - what are the points for games between them?

sodacat11

EnPassant wrote: »

EnPassant (0) - draws for the 3 lowest rated players with white - Dermot Nolan, Zalan Nemeth and Peter Cafolla.

There are 3 players with the same rating in the tournament - what are the points for games between them?

Good question.......If these players meet....3pts for the draw, 5 for a win by either player BUT if you pick one player to win and he loses then you are docked 5 Pts. Just a little landmine to spice things up!!

reunion

Reunion (1) - Win: Jessel Draw: Short, Scott

zeitnot

Zeitnot (6) for round 3: wins for Scott, D. Nolan. Draw for Murray.

sodacat11

This is getting tough,,,,,,,, Sodacat (5) Wins Lopez, Conor Nolan and Dermot Nolan

The league table that someone posted yesterday was great, who is leading now?

EnPassant

EnPassant(6) - for round 3: draw for Conor O'Donnell, wins for Alex Lopez and Stephen Moran.

cdeb

I make it this is the table after round 2 -

6 - EnPassant (from last to first!)
6 - Retd.LoyolaCpt
6 - Zeitnot (thanks to me, it seems!)
5 - cdeb
5 - Sodacat
4 - ChessPlayer123
4 - Tim Harding
2 - Ciaran
2 - Reunion
0 - Past_Pawn_99

The round 3 draw is here. I'll go draws for Lopez and Kennedy, and a win for Manojlovic

Retd.LoyolaCpt

RLC (6):
Baburin - O’Donnell draw
Lopez win
O’Gorman-Moran draw

ChessPlayer123

ChessPlayer123 (4) Lopez win, C. Nolan draw, Moran draw

reunion

Reunion (2) Win: A. O'Gorman, Li. Draw: Lopez

Rathminor

Draw for Alex and Sam, Alice and Gavin. Win for Conor Nolan
Do I get any 1 point byes for joining in round 3

sodacat11

Rathminor wrote: »

Draw for Alex and Sam, Alice and Gavin. Win for Conor Nolan
Do I get any 1 point byes for joining in round 3

You may have two points since I'm in a generous mood !!

cdeb

One point for Passed_Pawn_99 as well so?

sodacat11

cdeb wrote: »

One point for Passed_Pawn_99 as well so?

Oh go on then, since I'm in an even better mood now

cdeb

Another snakey draw?

I suspect sodacat has taken up the c3 Sicilian with all these half points...

sodacat11

cdeb wrote: »

Another snakey draw?

I suspect sodacat has taken up the c3 Sicilian with all these half points...

Oh ye of little faith.

cdeb

:eek:

sodacat11

cdeb wrote: »

:eek:

You forget that I was joint leader with one round to go in 2012. I may be six years older now but on a good day I can still play a few decent moves.

cdeb

Big money won on the Lopez win against Sam.

No predictions from Tim, Ciaran or Past_Pawn - so a bye point to each.

I have the following now. Two clear leaders after appearing.

13 - EnPassant
12 - Retd.LoyolaCpt
9 - ChessPlayer123
7 - Reunion
6 - Zeitnot
6 - Sodacat
6 - cdeb
5 - Tim Harding
5 - Rathminor
3 - Ciaran
1 - Past_Pawn_99

Round 4 is here

I think I need to gamble a bit to get back into this - so going all in here. Dermot Nolan, Paul O'Neill and Mihailo to win.