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Report on World Cup 18 – as of 01.08.2012

Statistics

Nine months after official start of the World Cup 18 we have 75% completed games (range from 41% to 96%). The range of comppleted games with at least 90% has occured in 9 sections. See below more statistics.

We have 4 players qualified for the World Cup 18 semifinals until now! All of them […]

World Cup 18 – the second promotion!

From today (09.07.2012) we have two players qualified for the World Cup 18 semifinals already!

Their names are:

Andreas van Schyndel (GER) from section 6 Olli Ylönen (FIN) from section 15

Both players completed all his games with the final result 9,5 points out of 12 and gained at least the second place in their […]

Report on World Cup 18 – as of 04.07.2012

Statistics

Eight months after official start of the World Cup 18 we have 70% completed games (range from 37% to 95%). The range of comppleted games from 80% to 95% has occured in 14 sections. See below more statistics.

But we still have one player qualified for the World Cup 18 semifinals last month! His […]

World Cup 18 – the first promotion!

After seven months we have the first player qualified for the World Cup 18 semifinals!

His name is Andreas van Schyndel (GER) from section 6. He completed all his games with the final result 9,5 points out of 12 and gained at least the second place in his section.

Congratulations!

Report on World Cup 18 – as of 28.05.2012

Statistics

Seven months after official start of the World Cup 18 we have 61% completed games. The range of copmpleted games from 75% to 92% has happend in 11 sections. See below more statistics.

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Total number of games: 5058 Completed games: 3094 Completed games percentage: 61% Completed games with a draw: 1395 Draw percentage: […]

Report on World Cup 18 – as of 29.04.2012

Statistics

Six months after official start of the World Cup 18 we have 54% completed games. See below more statistics. 8 sections have copmpleted games from 70% to 88%.

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Total number of games: 5058 Completed games: 2725 Completed games percentage: 54% Completed games with a draw: 1222 Draw percentage: 45%

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Below some statistics […]

Report on World Cup 18 – as of 31.03.2012

Statistics

Five months after official start of the World Cup 18 we have 45% completed games. See below more statistics. Seven sections have copmpleted games from 65% to 78%.

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Total number of games: 5058 Completed games: 2298 Completed games percentage: 45% Completed games with a draw: 1048 Draw percentage: 46%

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Below some statistics […]

Witold’s Memorial & Match start today

Dear Chessfriends,

World Cup 18 preliminaries (844 entries, 65 sections) started on 30.10.2011 and Witold Bielecki Memorial/ Team Tournament (22 national teams, 3 sections) started on 25.01.2012.

Today on 01.03.2012 other remaining events start officially:

Witold Bielecki Memorial/ Top players – cat.16 (2639), 13 players; Witold Bielecki Memorial/ section B – cat.12 (2527), 13 players; […]

Report on World Cup 18 – as of 26.02.2012

Statistics

Four months after official start of the World Cup 18 we have 34% completed games. See below more statistics.

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Total number of games: 5058 Completed games: 1729 Completed games percentage: 34% Completed games with a draw: 765 Draw percentage: 44%

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Problems

Except of few cases games run smoothly.

For several players time […]

World Cup 18 webpage – small reorganization

Webpage dedicated to World Cup 18 was slightly rearranged. At the main page news and reports (actually links to posts) on World Cup 18 are to be placed. New subpages has been created:

World Cup 18 announcement Status of the entries Statistics & Qualifications