09/23/2006

Monday Night Prediction
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by NM Arun Sharma
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September 25th 2006

  New York Knights (2.0-2.0) vs Seattle Sluggers (4.0-0.0)

  Starts at 9:15 PM ET       Time Control - Game 60 with 30 second increment    

New York Knights			Seattle Sluggers
GM Pascal Charbonneau - 2500			GM Gregory Serper - 2570
IM Irina Krush - 2445			IM Eric Tangborn - 2465
IM Jay Bonin - 2354			FM Slava Mikhailuk - 2438
Matthew Herman - 2172			Michael Lee - 2102
Avg Rating - 2368			Avg Rating - 2394
New York Total -------	0.0	0.0	------- Seattle Total

A huge must win match for the Knights if they wish to maintain a realistic hope in winning their division.  They certainly have their work cut out for them as the Sluggers have been unstoppable to this point.  Luckily for the Knights, IM Krush has returned to the team just in time for this pivotal match as she'll definitely be needed if the Knights want to pull it off.  I frankly feel that all four boards for these particular lineups are all very very close, and I really can't assign much of an advantage to either side on any of them.  This might lead you to think that I'm going to pick a draw once again, but as any who've been reading my previous weeks' work know, that particular strategy has not exactly been successful to this point (and in addition Greg Shahade has threatened to fire me if I do it again) so despite the respective records of the teams, I'll choose in favor of my prerelease prediction and pick New York 2.5-1.5.


(FM Ron Young predicts a 2.5-1.5 win for Seattle)



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