Popov-Ragger White mounting a comeback after dropping a piece for nothing
edit: oh it wasn't for nothing, still bad tho. Beliavsky 2651 and turning 60 this year, impressive imo
Yeah he's toast, needs to win as White. I looked up the tiebreak system, here goes:
- two 25 10 games
- if tied, then two 10 10 games
- if tied, two 5 3 games
- if still tied, an armageddon game with 5 vs 4 minutes plus a three second increment from move 60 (hf counting the moves). Coinflip winner gets to pick color
It's unfortunate that if Hou Yifan *does* manage to get past Shirov, either by holding a draw in this game (Houdini seems to not be fond of her chances, but time controls change everything), or in the later tie-break rounds, that she and Wei Yi would have to play each other in round two.
After the first round of tie-breaks, we have nine underdogs through to the second round so far, and 12 boards still playing. Here are the upset* winners by seed:
#67 Mikhail Kobalia
#71 Anton Filippov
#75 Daniil Dubov
#83 Ray Robson
#85 Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son
#87 Isan Reynaldo Ortiz Suárez
#89 Jon Ludvig Hammer
#91 Alexandr Fier
#105 Wei Yi
So of the top 37 seeds, only Nepomniachti has fallen so far, but a couple of others (five, to be precise, including one top ten seed in Kamsky) are still at risk...
*Not that #67>#62 is any great shocker or anything. But it still counts!
I'm at work, so can't have the audio on, but they're putting tweets up on the screen from people who seem to think Cori shouldn't have been DQ'ed, and something about language barriers? Can someone get the full story and share it here?
White mounting a comeback after dropping a piece for nothing
