John O’Hagan ,who is a very good player, just got smoked in this one. The dice worked against him to say the least. Not to take anything away from Joe Urso though.
Who plays with white and who plays with blue? The guy playing white does not roll properly the dice, he just "spill out" carefully the dice from the cup, but does not roll them. Very annoying.
At 11:00. I guess trying to be slick doesn't always be the best way. He should have given up hitting when he couldn't keep his 6pt prime and also hit. Greed doesn't pay.
@@martinwigge7642 the right amount of background noise is 'zero' . This level of chatter is simply disrespectful to the players, i dont give a toss about viewers
Imagine the furore if chess players were allowed to accept and check their mobile phones. And the board and colours arte ugly and repellent, and often difficult to distinguish. On the other hand there is far les clutter around the table. (Tho' I still think the clock is unnecessary - I've never ever seen the slightest sign of players (unlike chess) have time trouble.
Phones are horrid. Clocks are quite necessary. People do time out (although there is plenty of time). Peoples time also gets low and they rush and miss things. The point is that when the clock is running it is your time and you may do what you like.
Thanks for sharing. For a note: Starting at about the 6 minute mark Csaba has a nice full prime and total control of the board, but that isn't enough. You have to torture your opponents, kick them when they are down. With a few of the subsequent plays there were good opportunities to squeeze off that anchor, I think Douglas Zare called them semi-squeezes, like perhaps with the 6,6 13/1 8/2 7/1!?, but in any case, bearing in safely when you have total control of the board as was done just isn't good enough, and was indeed punished here with a lost race.
Орган-изаторите на колоездачните обиколки, наясно ли са какво правят когато допускат колоездачи с надпiса Team Bahrain Victorious, a те не са бахрейнски граждани!
In 1975, I invented and made a dice rolling box that was made of Lexan and was sealed. It had pins inside that the dice would tumble thru. Your turn was over when you inverted the box and handed it to the other person. No more dice problems or arguments. I rolled 1000 times to check the bell curve. It was perfect. I didn't patient it because I thought random number generators were coming soon. I read Jacoby's books.
