Round Two
The second round of the MSO's FIDE KO prediction contest attracted a smaller number of competitors, not surprising with less than a day to vote, unless one tries picking the winners before the official pairings are posted ...
Another closely fought contest, though. Our statistically-minded webmaster Chris Dickson has the following to report:
The completely semi-automated prediction competition round two victory calculation has taken place and the winner, with 26/32, was Shane Gaschler.
Close, but cigarless, were 25/32 scorers Orla Nicklom and Ron van Bruchem. At the other end of the scale, the lowest score of the twenty received was a still-quite-respectable 17/32.
Mean score was exactly 22/32, median score 22/32, modal score 21/32.
| Unanimously predicted results |
| Game 1 |
Anand over Bologan |
| Game 12 |
Gelfand over Dizdarevic |
| Game 16 |
Azmaiparashvili over Baklan |
| Game 21 |
Khalifman over Lutz |
| Least frequently correctly predicted results |
| 1/20 |
Game 6 |
Ehlvest over Ivanchuk |
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Game 24 |
Alexandrov over Akopian |
| 3/20 |
Game 9 |
Macieja over Krasenkov |
| 4/20 |
Game 18 |
Vladimirov over Almasi |
| 5/20 |
Game 13 |
Nataf over Short |
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