Kildare Open

[MostFamousDane]

Day 1 (after 3/5 rounds)

Sean Cronin 9 points
Sean McKenna 8 points
Pat Logue 8 points
Sean O'Driscoll 7 points
Colin Young 7 points
Paddy Doyle 7 points

Shane McCosker, Myles Hannigan and John McElhone are having a terrible tournament and are all on 0 points.

[Ingo_Zachos]

I suppose Ron King, Alex Moiseyev and Michele Borghetti also scored no points so far

R u playing there, Sune?

And how far away are you from these prominent scores?


Greetinx from cloudy Germany,

Ingo Zachos


PS:
German Open 2012 will in Korbach, June 9th and 10th. Program to be followed soon!

[MostFamousDane]

Yes I am also playing - I'm on 6 points after 4 rounds. All the openings that I have drawn so far have been openings where reds first two moves are 9-13 and 10-14 or similar those kind of openings you kind of have to study in order to be able to draw the weak side of. As you know studying is for cowards who are afraid to lose .

[Ingo_Zachos]

Sune,

it seems you studied them well. You found all the losses.

Greetinx from ironic Dortmund,

Ingo

[MostFamousDane]

Final results:

1. Sean Cronin 14 points
2. Paddy Doyle 13 points
3. Pat logue 12 points
4. Tom Kee 12 points
5. Sean McKenna 11 points
6. Bill Dobbins 11 points
7. Sean O'Driscoll 10 points
8. Colin Young 9 points
9. Sean Phillps 9 points
10. Sune Thrane 8 points
11. Graham Young 7 points
12/13 Billy Kelly/Bernard Coll 7 points

[MostFamousDane]

Sune,

it seems you studied them well. You found all the losses.

Greetinx from ironic Dortmund,

Ingo

Well I actually didn't lose that many games (3 out of 10 games) - unfortunately I didn't win many either (1/10). Most player's around me had a bye which I didn't that is reflected in the scores - so all in all I think I had a pretty good tournament . To substantially improve my result here would require at lot of study - these Irish buggers are not easy pickings .

[Ingo_Zachos]

Congratulations to Sean Cronin for a great victory and to Paddy Doyle, Pat Logue and Tom Kee for good performances.

Sune, I always said that 3-move in fact favors the book player, as it is harder to defend most 3-move ballots without exact knowledge, while GAYP offers a lot of possibilities for the defender in each sound opening.

Or, in other words: instead of reducing the advantage of book play with 156 openings, it is multiplied by a factor that is at least 50 times higher then the advantage of a book player in GAYP...

We also saw that in the last 3-move WC, when Alex Moiseyev got a huge book advantage by the unusual high number of new ballots and ballots that were not played in Italian Dama.

Not the better player prevails in 3-move, but the better memory...

Greetinx from cloudy Dortmund at midnigt,

Ingo Zachos