{"id":2078,"date":"2014-03-17T16:46:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T00:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2017-05-07T14:41:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T22:41:44","slug":"pacific-northwest-players-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/pacific-northwest-players-in-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Northwest Players in Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY MIKE MURRAY<\/strong> (a bit was added by Russell Miller)<\/p>\n<p>Three Northwesterners competed in the ten-round 2014 Reykjavik Open: <strong>Viktors Pupols <\/strong>of Kingston, Washington, <strong>Jason Kenney <\/strong>of the Vancouver, BC area, and <strong>Mike Murray<\/strong> of Port Townsend, Washington. Kenney and Murray scored 5-5, while Unkel Vik scored 4.5 \u2013 5.5, but the picture painted by the final numbers is a bit distorted. Vik and Jason faced substantially stronger opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Pupols started with a loss to <strong>GM Richard Rapport<\/strong>, scored two draws and a loss against IMs, drew an FM, dropped a couple games to 2250 rated untitled players, and picked up three points against class players &#8212; a respectable score against a tough field. Pupols had 3 wins 3 draws and 4 lost. His starting rank was 130 and finish was 148.<\/p>\n<p>Kenney had a superb start. After winning his first round game against a 1513, drawing an IM, then a GM, beating an IM, and drawing another GM, he could seriously contemplate an IM norm. But after pushing too hard to win a drawish position against <strong>WGM Alini L\u2019Ami<\/strong>, he scored only 1.5 points out of the last five rounds. Still, he had a good tournament, with an Event Performance Rating (2244) exceeding his FIDE by 120 points.<\/p>\n<p>My own results were somewhat less than mediocre, no upset wins or draws, a couple of draws against lower rated players, and a loss to a 1624 junior. I finished 5-5, 4 wins 2 draws and 4 lost. My starting rank was 147 and finish rank was 141.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese <strong>GM Li Chao <\/strong>won it with 8.5. Four GMs, including Canada\u2019s <strong>Eric Hansen<\/strong>, tied for second with 8.<\/p>\n<p>This was the fiftieth anniversary of the tournament, held the last three years in Reykjavik\u2019s Harpa Hall, and was superbly run, as usual. Rounds 2 and 3 were played on the same day, with one game a day for all other rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Chessbase website has several reports.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"crosstable\" href=\"http:\/\/chess-results.com\/tnr111685.aspx?lan=1&amp;art=4&amp;fedb=USA&amp;fed=EGY&amp;flag=30&amp;wi=821&amp;zeilen=99999\">CLICK HERE<\/a> for crosstables and other info. Mike Murray is listed as Canadian.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"games\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reykjavikopen.com\/games\/games-in-pgn-format-for-download\/\">CLICK HERE<\/a> for lots of the game scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MIKE MURRAY (a bit was added by Russell Miller) Three Northwesterners competed in the ten-round 2014 Reykjavik Open: Viktors Pupols of Kingston, Washington, Jason Kenney of the Vancouver, BC area, and Mike Murray of Port Townsend, Washington. Kenney and Murray scored 5-5, while Unkel Vik scored 4.5 \u2013 5.5, but the picture painted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourn","tag-iceland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}