Round 7 in numbers

Bayegan Pendik had White on the odd boards, and that's where they won. Anish Giri beat Nodirbek Abdusattorov on board 1 in 41 moves, the highest-rated game of the round. Replay M. Amin Tabatabaei beat Haik M. Martirosyan on board 3 in 58, without a single move Lichess marked. Replay Jorden Van Foreest got one back for SuperChess Romania against Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus on board 2, with White in 70 moves. Replay The other three were drawn, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Bogdan-Daniel Deac in 42 with a combined centipawn loss of 5, the cleanest game of the Open today, tied with one other. Replay

Novy Bor were the team of the round, a performance of 2772 against opposition averaging 2572. Nihal Sarin beat Murali Karthikeyan with Black in 50 Replay, Pentala Harikrishna beat Evgeny Romanov with White in 52 Replay, and David Navara beat Denis Kadric with White in 56. Replay The other three boards were drawn. It wasn't enough: Bayegan Pendik finish ahead on the Olympiad Sonneborn-Berger, 261.5 to 253.

Rishon LeZion A beat Cheddleton Savills Caterling 5–1 and are third. The quickest win of the round came on their board 4. Or Bronstein had White against Bjorn Thorfinnsson, and after 25...Be6 it was 26.Rd8+ Ke7 27.Nd5#, a knight mate with the rook joining in, so a double check. The site's Mate Gallery collects the checkmates with a named pattern, and this was the only one in the Open today. Replay On board 6 Max Pert, rated 2171, held Ariel Erenberg, 2482, to a draw in 57 moves, the biggest rating gap in the Open that the lower-rated player survived. Replay

Monte-Carlo won all four boards. Aleksandra Goryachkina beat Anastasia Kirtadze with White in 32 Replay, Humpy Koneru beat Nia Donghvani with Black in 37 Replay, Stavroula Tsolakidou beat Mariam Kalandadze with White in 26 Replay, and Elisabeth Paehtz beat Barbare Ashotia with Black in 42. Replay It was one of three 4–0 wins in the section today.

Bonnevoie needed a win against Crvena Zvezda and got it, but not easily. Anna Ushenina beat Alina Bivol with Black in 44 Replay, and Aleksandra Maltsevskaya beat Ljilja Drljevic with White in 22. Replay On board 3 Adela Velikic, a WIM rated 2195, beat Elina Danielian, a GM rated 2385, with White in 45 moves, and she was down to 38 seconds after move 36 on the way. A non-GM beating a GM is a GM Scalp on the site, and 190 rating points is the biggest of the Women's section at this Club Cup. Replay Klaudia Kulon and Jovana Rapport drew board 2 in 45, and that was the match, 2½–1½.

Sirmium Sremska Mitrovica beat Odlar Yurdu 3½–½ and were the team of the round, a performance of 2673 against opposition averaging 2373. Polina Shuvalova beat Ulviyya Fataliyeva with Black in 35, the highest-rated game of the section Replay, Leya Garifullina beat Govhar Beydullayeva with White in 36 Replay, and Xeniya Balabayeva beat Khanim Balajayeva with White in 64. Replay Sirmium are third on 10, ahead of Odlar Yurdu on tie-break.

Alvar Alonso Rosell and Temur Kuybokarov played the game of the round for awards, and it was a draw. Both sides had a passed pawn running, and both got there: 55...h1=Q for Black and 56.a8=Q for White. The site calls two promotions within four moves of each other a Photo Finish, and this was the only one of the round. Replay

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Then the checks started. From 59.Qh4+ to 80.Qf7+ Alonso Rosell gave 22 checks in a row with his queen, the Longest King Hunt of the Open at this Club Cup, and Kuybokarov's king walked out of every one of them: 34 king moves in the game, on 24 different squares, starting from e8. The site calls the most king moves by one side the Dadbod Shuffler, and the most squares visited by one piece the Square Tourist, and this king took both. Drawn in 80. Replay

Bjorn Holm Birkisson and Joanna Worek drew in 95 moves, and it was the wildest game of the Open by the evaluation lost on both sides. Worek had both rooks on White's second rank from move 39 to move 48, the longest stretch of Pigs on the 7th in the round. After 89.Ra4 she had a forced mate in 10, and 89...Rd2 let it go. Birkisson's rook checked from g8 and h8, and it was a draw on move 95. He had played 52 moves with under five minutes on his clock by then, the first of them move 32, the most of anyone in the Open today. Replay

Hannah Sayce of Australia and Milica Popadic of Bosnia and Herzegovina drew in 121 moves, which equals the longest game of the Women's section at this Club Cup. The queens came off with a knight fork: 43.Qxe4+ Qxe4 44.Ng5+ and 45.Nxe4, a check that attacks the queen from a safe square, which the site calls a Family Fork. It was the only one of the round in either section. The endgame ran from move 44 to the end, 78 moves of it. Sayce moved her knight 44 times, and Popadic's rook from h8 visited 32 squares, the most by one piece in the Women's section this week. Replay

Ana Berke of Croatia moved her queen 55 times against Anna Kantane and covered 137 squares with it, about 180 metres at human scale. The site calls the longest queen trip the Sporty Queen, and nobody's queen has gone further in the Women's section at this event. Twenty-one of those moves were checks in a row, from 46...Qe3+ to move 66, and Kantane's king answered with 43 moves of its own, also a record for the section. She also gained six minutes on her clock after move 40, the most of the round. Drawn in 92. Replay

Ralitsa Ilieva of Bulgaria, rated 1838, beat Zuzana Stara, 2180, with White in 43 moves. That's 342 rating points, the biggest upset of the day in either section, and the lead changed sides three times on the way. Replay In the Open, Samir Sahidi, an IM rated 2482, beat Pranesh M, a GM rated 2674, with White in 46 on board 1 of SK K CERO INVEST Nitra against Tuxera Aquaprofit Nagykanizsai. Nagykanizsai still won the match 4½–1½. Replay

Viviana Galvan Cipriani was winning against Laura Unuk by almost nine points after 32...Rf6, and two moves later it was over. 34.Nc4 allowed 34...Qxf2+ with mate to follow, and Unuk won. That is the Swindle of the Day for Unuk, and for Galvan Cipriani the biggest blunder of the Women's section at this Club Cup, measured by the win chance it cost: 89%. Replay

Nderim Saraci of Kosovo put a third queen on the board against Nikola Djukic, 33.e8=Q+, and it lasted one move, 33...Qxe8. The site calls a third queen the Royal Court, and the Open had four of them today. Saraci won in 46. Replay

The only 6–0 of the Open was Welsh on both sides. The Full Ponty beat Cardiff B on all six boards, with an average rating of about 1884 against 1709. Those boards weren't on the relay, so the result comes from chess-results and there is nothing to replay. The Full Ponty finish 97th of 108.

Lichess analyses every finished broadcast game on its own servers, and 99.9% of the moves in both sections had an evaluation by the time these were pulled, so the accuracy and blunder numbers are Lichess's, not mine. Relay clocks are chaos, so the script looks for the jump where the 30-minute bonus actually lands instead of trusting move 40. Forfeits never count for move stats, ties are shown instead of broken, and every award links to the exact move.

The note for this event is about coverage. The relay carried the top 15 of the Open's 54 matches, 90 boards of 324, and every match of the Women's section. The games table and all the awards come from those relayed boards. The team standings don't: every match result, relayed or not, comes from chess-results, and the site works the table out from them with the ECU's tie-breaks, match points first, then an Olympiad Sonneborn-Berger that leaves out the weakest opponent, then game points. The official table is the one on chess-results.

That was the last round. The site keeps all seven rounds of both sections, each with its own page, the standings and an overview of the whole Club Cup with its record book. The next event on ply.fun is the K4 Classical League in Zürich, where round 3 opens on Wednesday 4 November. The site is unofficial and not affiliated with the ECU, the organisers or Lichess.

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