@arkansaw:

In case of a 100% score,

performance rating = average rating opponents + 800.

as indicated by sx above,
This is a quite arbitrary formula of course, for want of a better method to estimate the strength of a 100% performance. If Ivanchuk would have made a draw in the first round, only then a sensible TPR can be calculated, which should indeed increase with a longer winning streak.

Many things are confused here: first, people who call themselves Jewish vs. people whose parents (or mother) call(ed) themselves Jewish (a big difference). Also, the connection between not working on saturday and being Jewish is a strange and unfair one: as far as I know, this is only valid for Orthodox Jews with rather extreme views. Also, a newspaper can't be Jewish, it can only run by Jewish editors, and even this is a dubious connection: we don't call a newspaper 'male'either just because the editors happen to be male, do we? Anyway, I guess this is not the proper place to discuss these issues, so I'll leave it at that.

Thank God Toppa won too, just to keep the tension alive :)

I ain't no expert, but looks like Ivanchuk is going to his 5th win in a row! ... Aronian is left with a single queen against 2 rooks and a bishop for Chucky

Expert enough to spot that one pete! Amazing run from Ivanchuk, beating the whole of the field consecutively.

... I ain't no expert either - but Ivanchuk is on 5/5 as of today! Seems to be on a run - and his opponents seem hypnotized in advance....

Wow. *rushing to the superlatives store 'cause I've run out*

Kramnik is not jewish but Kasparov is. But does it matter??

oh well than i was mistaken. Than i have missed some articles on that day. :(

Thanks for the explanation.

Pues a mi me da igual la religi?ɬ?n de los webmaster de Chessvibes, el caso es que tienen una de las mejores webs del mundo, con una cobertura excepcional de los principales torneos del mundo.
Y supongo que hay d?ɬ?as que no publican porque se merecen un descanso y si tienes otras razones pues me parece bien.
Un saludo Peter.

Your question surprises me, Manuel, since it's very easy to establish that many ChessVibes reports have been published on a Saturday.

@arkansaw & sx:

Actually, Ivanchuk's performance rating has been dropping(!) at least since the second round:
2/2: +819
3/3: +802
4/4: +790
This is because the 'humble' ratings of Chuky's opponents in rounds 3 and 4 decreased the avarage rating of his opponents.

So 2740 +790 after 4/4? Is it going to hit +1000 with a 5/5?

The chessvibes reporters are Dutch, therefore atheist :)

My question is, are the reporters of ChessVibes Jewish like Kramnik, Reshevski and Polgar? My reason to ask this is because on Saturday, ( Sabbath) there is never a report from you of from what occasion in chessworld whatever. so are you maybe religious and if so, do you make it clear to the world?

Greetings from Manuel :)

A Jew told me. And he said Akiba Rubinstein was also a Jew and Emmanuel Lasker too.

Kramnik is not jewish.
It's just an internet rumour, nothing more.
Tell me where to find a trustworthy confirmation of Kramnik being jewish ?!

"Manuel on 11 May 2008 7:42 PM
My question is, are the reporters of ChessVibes Jewish like Kramnik, Reshevski and Polgar?" is Kramnik jewish? I'm a little surprised i've never heard that since he is my favorite player

-> Arkansaw
Not possible. Maximum according to Chessbase table is +800 compared to the opponents avarage rating. But of course it's not possible to calculate performance rating with 100% or 0 %.

Yes Kramnik is Jewish and many more, i have to say i am not Jewish but i am strongly influenced by the works of autors like Leon de Winter, Arnon Grunberg and Philip Roth, really i read all the literature of these autors. Had to say a newspaper like The New York Times is Jewish too.

@MvE

now that's a surprise, I don't know how the calculation works, but from the way pple keep talking about performance ratings in conjunction with the plus/minus scores, one would intuitive expect a better TPR as the winning streak extends

but at any rate this is truly astounding, normally even a TPR of 3000-ish would be of worthy mention, but this is 3500 @ Cat XX.....simply amazing

kasparov is half jewish and half armenian!!!