Prediction: NJ Knockouts .5 - Boston Blitz 3.5
Board 1: Benjamin-Christiansen
Prediction: 1/2-1/2
This is a pretty close matchup, Benjamin has white but Christiansen seems to be in better form as of late. The victory over Wolff and draw against Nakamura were both very impressive. Christiansen is obviously a very dangerous opponent who is capable of beating just […]
10) Chris was tired after a long night of teaching Kramnik the finer points of rook endgames
9) Chris didn’t think it would be fair to use his awesomeness against a girl
8 ) He lost on purpose so everyone would underestimate him in the playoffs
7) NY smuggled a bag of kryptonite into the Boston Blitz playing […]
What’s nice about making these predictions is that I’ve played against most of these players, which means I know their strengths and weaknesses first hand. Hopefully this will make my predictions more accurate!
Boston Blitz 1.5 - New York Knights 2.5
Board 1 Sammour-Hasbun-Nakamura:
My question is what the **** is Jorge doing on board 1??? He’s […]
I was fortunate enough to catch the tail end of the match on ICC Wednesday evening. When I got home, Chrissy Bear had already won on board 4 and Larry Christiansen was destroying the rusty GM Patrick Wolff. I ended up spending most of my time watching the Bhat-Kelleher game. When I first looked at […]
