All for nothing...prashanthm wrote: R9
Last round with white pieces against Safrali....
A win tomorrow will fetch him 3.6 ELO, making it +1.2
A draw would lose him 1.4 ELO making it -3.8 overall...
3rd blunder of the week costed Hari a win and he lost badly to Safrali and lost a ton of ELO...
He was in the driver's seat going into the middle game, where he blundered a piece (despite having a whole lot of time on the clock) and it was not easy to come back from there and he eventually lost the game...
Finished tied 6th with 4/9, two points adrift of Fabi/Shak... Shak won it on tie-break... (Note: Hari had a win against Shak early on in the tournament)
Without those 3 blunders, Hari could've finished with 6 points...
With this result, Hari dropped down to #16 in the ranking list losing 8.8 ELO, effectively bringing him to 2755.2...
Long trek ahead for Hari from here...
He's scheduled to play a Chinese tournament in July and possibly the Chess Olympiad in September...