Round One
The first round of the MSO's FIDE KO prediction contest was hotly contested, with a high percentage of correct answers as the favorites dominated the early going - it will get harder!
Our winners are Ole Woldseth and "Taher k" with an excellent score of 30/36. To claim the prize, these two will have to face off in our quiz tie-breaker which will be held during our live Chat coverage of later rounds. Update: Ole Woldseth wins first quiz after playoff!
Other top clairvoyants were: Boris Dimitrijeski, "cjr" (well-known to us for his victories in our previous chat quiz contests - be afraid if you face him in a play-off) and Robert Roberts.
Our webmaster has compiled some interesting statistics from the first round of the competition:
Lowest score - apart from "p" who picked all the lower-rated seeds and
accordingly scored 7/36 - was 21/36, attained by three nameless people.
There were 44 correctly filled out entries. Mean score was 25.95/36, median score 26/36, modal score 25/36.
| Most frequently correctly predicted results |
| 43/44 |
Game 1 |
Piket over Hernandez |
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Game 24 |
Yermolinsky over Al Modiahki |
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Game 29 |
Galkin over Wohl |
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Game 23 |
Benjamin over Fiorito |
| Least frequently correctly predicted results |
| 1/44 |
Game 8 |
Dao over Ponomariov |
| 5/44 |
Game 2 |
Leitao over Lautier |
| 6/44 |
Game 14 |
Macieja over Speelman |
| 7/44 |
Game 10 |
Volkov over Sakaev |
| 8/44 |
Game 3 |
Ivanov over Fedorov |
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