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EOSC 2011 Commentary: Round 4

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In this round's annotated game, Mikki Nicholson (Eng) plays Chinedu Okwelogu (NGA). There are problems with the annotation of this game. The annotators were getting tired, started to enter the whole game one square to the right, then realized their mistake, and as they are supposed to do in this situation, filled out a paper annotation form for me to subsequently decipher. It took me half an hour (and probably not enough caffeine) to discover several other subtle errors in the record, and I'm still left with an unaccounted for E at the end of the game. Emailed theories are welcome.

Another problem this round was a pairing issue. I had left Julie Tate (Sco) (the swing player) and Albert Zammit (MLT) (off sick) in the pairings as of when the Round 4 pairings were generated (based on Round 2 standings), so Julie had an artificially high rank and was due to play Theresa Brousson (MLT). Instead, Theresa was paired with Albert's original opponent, Geoff Cooper (Eng), with Julie getting another bye. The underlying issue was corrected in time for Round 5.

Theresa beat Geoff 424-300 to stay in second place. Helen Gipson (Sco) beat Mohammad Sulaiman (ARE) 497-384, enough to climb to third place. Together with Mikki, sitting comfortably in first place, they make a pretty trio of leaders. The other two remaining undefeated players at the end of this round are Cecil Muscat (MLT) and Vincent Boyle (Sco).