At least, we started the 2nd round! We needed to wait only two games between the same oponents, one of them was clearly lost in both and he played until the mate - fortunatelly, he didn't use 3 days for every move...

Remaining Games: 3 (current round)

 

W00t!

this is taking far too long to end

So the Tie Break comes down to 2.5/2 vs. 3.5/2  So with this tie break it is better to lose or tie to the player that does not have many points.  Which tie break is this?   Since there are a lot of different tie breaks. 

1+1+2.5+2.5/2+3.5+3.5+6.5

1+1+2.5+2.5+3.5+3.5/2+6.5

@pichon27 : The formula for tie-breaks points is: for every win, a player has all points of his oponent, and for every draw, a half of it (and nothing for loss). In the group 36, No 1 have one draw against weaker oponent  - it means, more tie-breaks points!

Also I note that player 1 had his draw with the white pieces which I would have thought in a tright group tie break was inferior to player 2 having a draw with the black pieces.

 

Pichon

Good point---it does look incorrect.  The third place persons did have a better record and the 4th place person had a better rating, second rated player going in. 

Below is a different tournament but I lost on tie breakers we all have seven points

1. mmikeman41 (1728)	X	1  0	½  1	½  1	0  1	1  1	7	29.5
2. orejano (1609)	1  0	X	1  0	1  0	1  1	1  1	7	28
3. MrJ (1774)	0  ½	1  0	X	1  1	1  ½	1  1	7	26.5
4. lordbobbetti (1694)	0  ½	1  0	0  0	X	1  ½	0  1	4	17.5
5. kaiser_souza (1636)	0  1	0  0	½  0	½  0	X	1  1	4	14.5
6. xropi (1664)	0  0	0  0	0  0	0  1	0  0	X	1	4

Could someone explain the tie break in group 36 please - it seems counter-intuitive. The players who finished 1 and 2 shared their two games, with player 1 also having a draw with player 4 and player 2 also having a draw with player 3.  Natural justice would suggest that a draw with player 3 should count more than a draw with player 4 in a tie break, but that does not seem to be the case.  What am I missing?

 

pichon - just a bystander but interested for future reference.

I am very sorry, iskip the tournament,because i travell for work,thank you,see you and play you next time.

@123karpov : I am confident - what's wrong with it? And I can win even if an oponent make no blunders! However, I understand they are limits in my real power - I said "more then 2000", not 2300 or so - at least, not so fast! You can read in forum: It isn't exciting to win agaist weeker players

@madajtemimir: Oh well, I am still not >2000, but I am prety near - 1980. Good job for us tudjmanians!

  

  

Dont bother 123karpov. Most Tudjmanians are that pompous.. enjoy the games everybody

are you sure??.. dont be so confident to yourself coz most players here are too smart and no blunder at all.. im one of them.. so be careful..

My first tournament too! I raised my rating from the begining to >1800 in one week! (My first week here, http://blog.chess.com/LydiaBlonde/my-first-week-here, with some games and possitions, on my blog). Now it's time to see can I be even better! I have few free games in wining possition, so my rating will probably be >2000 in the nxt week. Smart me!

 I jebali vas Tito, Draža i Pavelić zajedno!

 my  1st tournament.  good luck everyone,  great site  

when dis tournament ends???

i might make it to round 2 but ill be in boot camp in july so i might end up dqed but we will see

 

Hi for every body and a good games...

great work

with these and the quick chess.com tournaments (1 day per day)!

I have not been here long enough to experience those so will be very keen to do soon! 

I  enjoy this site very much.

thanks to Erik and to chess.com. we have another opportunity for enjoyment, development and learning as well as meeting new friends. mabuhay! good luck to everyone! ganbate!