IM Nico Georgiadis appears to be a very nice guy, seeing him now in commentary box with Yifan. Despite a loss today (his first in the tournament), he finished with a 5/9 score. Nico already achieved 3 GM norms in the past and after this tournament, he's no longer a U2500 player. Therefore, we have a new GM! 
Tournament Prediction Game 2017 (PPP) 🡺 "Tata Steel Chess 2018"
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Aug 2, 2017
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#303
Eseles wrote:
I have a good chance of winning if everyone else stops making predictions
Join the club 
Also, for the first time I am going to beat NewArdweaden, and with MSC doing well this time, closes things up at the top. Starting to look like the IndyCar standings, with everyone up top very close (top 5 are all within a race win difference)
And to check @MSC157, I did make a prediction didn't I?
Aug 2, 2017
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#304
Has any female won a super tournament before? Judit Polgar must have been the only other one to ever get close if she didn't win.
Predictions for those members currently recorded:
MSC157
Attacker5000
Huanglz
Mihai-Stefan
macer75
adumbrate
NewArdweaden
Eseles
SJFG
pulpofeira
ThomasJEvans
aa-ron1235
kingofshedinjas
EOGuel
ThomasJEvans wrote:
Has any female won a super tournament before? Judit Polgar must have been the only other one to ever get close if she didn't win.
Hou came close to winning Gibraltar 2012, but lost in the tie-break. But that's not SGM tourney ;)
Only found this for Judit. Though just 4 players, but strong ones:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=54405
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=72542
Aug 2, 2017
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#307
Here she won by 1½ points: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1008117
Also, for Sinquefield, me and a few friends are doing a Last Man Standing game. Maybe we could do this here as a side event (no points)?
Rules:
- Each round, you pick one player from the line up.
- If they lose, you are out; otherwise you stay in.
- You can only choose each player once in the entire tournament (so for example, if you pick Magnus for round 1, you cannot choose him for the rest of the tournament).
- Keep going until there is one person left.
- Tiebreak is the number of wins you chose throughout (so choosing wins is better, even though draws will also keep you in).
Anyone up for this?
MSC157 wrote:
Hou YIfan won Biel GM Tournament, wooooooah!
wooooot!!!
MSC157 wrote:
IM Nico Georgiadis appears to be a very nice guy, seeing him now in commentary box with Yifan. Despite a loss today (his first in the tournament), he finished with a 5/9 score. Nico already achieved 3 GM norms in the past and after this tournament, he's no longer a U2500 player. Therefore, we have a new GM!
(after he pays FIDE)
Hurray!!!
Has Sinquefield started? Any link for live commentery?....
Eseles wrote:
Has Sinquefield started? Any link for live commentery?....
1 hour left before the start!
LINK - official
ThomasJEvans wrote:
Rules:
- Each round, you pick one player from the line up.
- If they lose, you are out; otherwise you stay in.
- You can only choose each player once in the entire tournament (so for example, if you pick Magnus for round 1, you cannot choose him for the rest of the tournament).
- Keep going until there is one person left.
- Tiebreak is the number of wins you chose throughout (so choosing wins is better, even though draws will also keep you in).
Anyone up for this?
I'm up!
MSC157 wrote:
Eseles wrote:
Has Sinquefield started? Any link for live commentery?....
1 hour left before the start!
LINK - official
Ευχαριστώ
Thank you
Thomas, I'm up, too. Carlsen is my first pick.
Dang, didn't know you have to pay...
Eseles wrote:
I'm up!
round 1 Levon Aronian
Aug 2, 2017
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#316
I went for Svidler with my other group, so I'll stick with that here.
İs there any way to watch mobile app?
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from mobile app?
İs there any way to watch mobile app?
Great performance by Hou!
Btw, why are there some scores for Sinquefield already in?
Hou YIfan won Biel GM Tournament, wooooooah!