ChessHive I’m guessing some personal circumstances made Shirov miss the 5th and possibly the tournament as a whole. In my opinion, he is actually not ‘bye’ — a bye will be given points normally. Based on his personal card in chess-results.com, he will get 0 points in round 5. Let’s just hope Shirov is cleared to play soon!
Update: indeed he is not bye. He’s official status is “not paired”.
Surprise!!! Shirov is not paired in Round 5.
Yes been wondering the same how come those at the top are assigned bye, not the bottom dwellers
ChessHive I’m guessing some personal circumstances made Shirov miss the 5th and possibly the tournament as a whole. In my opinion, he is actually not ‘bye’ — a bye will be given points normally. Based on his personal card in chess-results.com, he will get 0 points in round 5. Let’s just hope Shirov is cleared to play soon!
Update: indeed he is not bye. He’s official status is “not paired”.
His automatic score is 1/2 for round 5. Same thing happened I guess with Naiditsch
Lol