{"id":868,"date":"2014-01-10T12:25:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T02:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2018-01-16T12:26:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T02:26:58","slug":"australian-championship-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/2014\/01\/australian-championship-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Championship round 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">There is only good news today, well from a certain perspective. I thought I would give the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ponziani_Opening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ponziani<\/a> a whirl today and I can&#8217;t complain too much about my opening and am sure that 22.b4 would have posed black some challenges. Instead I lost pawns but surprisingly <a href=\"http:\/\/stockfishchess.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stockfish<\/a>\u00a0tells me that I was worse but not actually lost. Somewhat surprising as I am two connected passed pawns down in an ending.The Championship has turned out to be a thriller. Max Illingworth and Anton Smirnov are tied for first on 7\/10 and are playing tomorrow. If there is a winner the title will be decided. Otherwise there is a pack on 6.5 who can all join a playoff by winning.<\/span>The biggest story for me this year is the sovereign performance of Dough Hamilton in the reserves. He is already home with 9.5\/10!! , two points clear of the pack. Much has been written about his non-selection for the Championship. I guess in two years time his participation will not be an issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chessvideos.tv\/replayer-insert.php?id=88202\" width=\"400\" height=\"580\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One more game to go. It would be nice just to spectate tomorrow. It should be an exciting round!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is only good news today, well from a certain perspective. I thought I would give the Ponziani a whirl today and I can&#8217;t complain too much about my opening and am sure that 22.b4 would have posed black some challenges. Instead I lost pawns but surprisingly Stockfish\u00a0tells me that I was worse but not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}