Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz: Closing Ceremony and Ultimate Moves

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8/19/2017 – The live action continued Saturday featuring the now-traditional trash-talk filled blitz bonanza known as Ultimate Moves. "Team Rex" squeaked out the victory after a 3/3 tie sparked an wild impromptu tiebreak game (not planned in advance), which was unceremoniously concluded by an illegal move made by Randy Sinquefield!

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Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz

Closing Ceremony

Streamed live from the World Chess Hall of Fame

Ultimate Moves blitz

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Format

  • Best of 6 games
  • The match will be declared a tie if it ends 3/3
  • There is only one game per round
  • Game 1 will start with 5 moves being played by Rex and Randy Sinquefield and then each player in the team roster plays 5 consecutive moves before giving way to one of their teammates
  • Once the two amateurs at the bottom of the roster (Rachael Li and John Urshel) have played their 5 moves the rotation is reset and starts from the top again
  • The rate of play for all 6 games will be Game in 5 minutes plus 5 seconds increment per move from move 1
  • The match starts at 15.00 local time in St Louis and the games will start at 20 minute intervals 

Teams

The teams were chosen yesterday and will consist of the following players (order of play not determined):

Team Randy  Team Rex
Randy Sinquefield Rex Sinquefield
Fabiano Caruana Levon Aronian
Garry Kasparov Hikaru Nakamura
Vishy Anand Sergey Karjakin
David Navara Ian Nepomniachtchi
Liem Le Lenier Dominguez
Rachael Li (7 year old sister of GM Ruifeng Li) John Urschel (former NFL football player)

Games and commentary

 
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1.d4 17 Nf6 23 2.c4 6 e6 17 3.g3 6 d5 42 4.Bg2 5 Be7 25 5.Nf3 17 0-0 24 6.Qc2 29 c5 4:13 7.dxc5 17 d4 7:22 8.b4 2:02 a5 2:18 9.b5 21 Bxc5 1:18 10.Nbd2 28 Nbd7 8:21 11.Nb3 2:03 e5 53 12.a4 2:19 Qc7 7:52 13.0-0 4:04 Ra7 8:02 14.Bg5 31:31 b6 9:18 15.Nxc5 27:21 Qxc5 10 16.Nd2 3:46 Qd6 5:17 17.Bxf6 5:55 Qxf6 1:50 18.Nb3 8:04 Bb7 8:05 19.Bxb7 10:37 Rxb7 2 20.f4 20 Nc5 13:00 21.Nxc5 33 bxc5 3 22.Qe4 42 Re7 2:57 23.f5 2 Rd7 7:57 24.Rad1 14 Rb8 2:18 25.Rd3 29 Rd6 1:17 26.Kg2 53 Qe7 4:11 27.Rf2 1:24 h6 58 28.h4 1:18 Rbd8 1:55 29.Kh3 54 h5 4:31 30.g4 5:38 hxg4+ 17 31.Qxg4 2 Rh6 1:39 32.Rg3 40 Qf6 2:13 33.Rfg2 1:35 Rh7 6 34.Qe4 45 Kh8 1:52 35.Rg4 32 Qd6 2:50 36.R2g3 21 Rb8 17 37.Rf3 40 Rh6 22 38.Rfg3 23 Rh7 34 39.Rf3 43 Rh6 1 40.Rfg3 0 Rh7 0 41.Rf3 2:01:01 ½–½
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StWhiteEloWBlackEloBResRndid
Sevian,S2694Aravindh,C27495.25854164
Bjerre,J2641Xu,X26235.15854163
Yakubboev,N2665Hovhannisyan,R26355.35854165
Kollars,D2625Praggnanandhaa R27585.45854166
Gledura,B2663Hakobyan,A26205.55854167
Gukesh,D2787Carlsen,M283765790389
Erigaisi Arjun2782Wei,Y275865811202
Vaishali,R2475Koneru,H254365816221
Vaishali,R2475Koneru,H254365790396
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Final blitz standings (not including rapid)

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Combined standings (including rapid)

 
Details
DATES August 13-19, 2017
LOCATION Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis
FORMAT 10-Player Round Robin
PRIZE FUND $150,000

Schedule

Monday, August 14 1:00 PM Rapid | Rounds 1 - 3
Tuesday, August 15 1:00 PM Rapid | Rounds 4 - 6
Wednesday, August 16 1:00 PM Rapid | Rounds 7 - 9
Thursday, August 17 1:00 PM Blitz | Rounds 1 - 9
Friday, August 18 1:00 PM Blitz | Rounds 10 - 18
Saturday, August 19 11: 00 AM Playoff (if necessary)
  3:00 PM Ultimate Moves

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