8/2/2013 – "Note that if Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beats Ding Liren and Etienne Bacrot draws Alexander Moiseenko, there will be tiebreaks with four players on Friday!" That is what we wrote in our previous report, and that is exactly what happened in the final round. The four will meet on Friday, with blitz knockout games in the semi-finals and rapid in the final. The action starts at 12:00 noon CEST.
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GM
Tournament in memoriam Olivier Breisacher
The GM tournament this year is in memory of Olivier
Breisacher, who for more than 15 years looked after the organisation,
reporting and external communications around the grandmasters tournament
in Biel. The tournament is a ten-round double round robin, played from July
22nd to August 1st, with games starting at 2 p.m. local time.
Round ten report
01.08.2013 14:00: Round 10
Etienne Bacrot
-
Alexander Moiseenko
½-½
(32)
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
-
Ding Liren
1-0
(75)
Ian Nepomniachtchi
-
Richard Rapport
½-½
(55)
Summary of round ten by GM Daniel King
These video summaries represent a pioneer effort by GM Daniel King and
Pascal Simon to give us a feel for what has happened in each round of the
Biel GM tournament. They require just three to five minutes of your time
and should not be missed. We thank our team for providing them just hours
after the rounds end.
Play of the day
Biel 2013 Round 10 Play of the Day: Maxime
Vachier-Lagrave vs Ding Liren
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The critical game: French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
vs GM Ding Liren from China
Even tail-ender Richard Raport is interested
in the outcome of this game
Ding, the only player who could have won the
title on his own steam
(by beating Vachier-Lagrave), faltered and joined the pack of four leaders
This man forced the four-player tiebreak: Maxime
Vachier-Lagrave
Alexander Moiseenko and Etienne Bacrot drew,
with both proceeding to the tiebreaks
Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi finised in fifth
place ...
... while Hungarian youngster GM Richard Rapport
was last
Photos by Pascal Simon for ChessBase
Final standings
In Biel the games are scored three points for a win, one for a draw and
zero for a loss. According to this "soccer" system, which is official
in this tournament, the standings are:
Here are the standing according to the traditional 2-1-0 scoring system:
Note that the three players with 5.5/10 in the traditional scoring caught
Etienne Bacrot, who finished with 6.0/10 by virtue of having more decisive
games. Bacrot won two and drew the rest, with no losses. Vachier-Lagrave,
Ding Liren and Alexander Moiseenko had three wins and two losses each, which
allowed them to catch Bacrot.
Tiebreaks
Since four players finished with the same amount of points after the last
round, there will be semi-finals in blitz (two games with 5’+2’’;
if 1-1, one Armageddon game). The semi-finals will be Player 1 vs Player
4 and Player 2 vs Player 3, with 1 and 2 having the priority to choose the
colour. So the pairings are:
02.08.2013 12:00: Tiebreak semi-finals
Etienne Bacrot
-
Alexander Moiseenko
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
-
Ding Liren
After this the two winners play in the final, which consists of two rapid
games – 15 minutes for all moves, with a 10 second increment per move.
If this ends 1-1, two blitz games with 5’+2” are played. If
this too finishes 1-1, one Armageddon game will be played, with 5 minutes
for White, who has to win, and 4 minutes for Black, who only needs to draw.
Video analysis with the players
Biel 2013 Round 10: Etienne Bacrot - Alexander
Moiseenko
Biel 2013 Round 10: Ian Nepomniachtchi - Richard
Rapport
The games will be broadcast live on the official web site and on
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