11/17/2010 – It has become a tradition that this super-strong blitz championship starts immediately after the Tal Memorial tournament – with players from that event and other fresh blood flown in. Twenty participants, double round robin, on three days. After the first third Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian lead with 10.0/14. We bring you results and some dramatic video footage from the first day of play.
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The World Blitz Championship is being held from 16 to 18 November at the GUM
Department Store on Red Square in Moscow. It is a double round robin with
twenty players, eight of whom are participants of the Tal Memorial, with
others who qualified from the 2010 Aeroflot tournament and seeded players.
Starting time is 15:00h local (= 13:00h CET; 07:00 a.m. NY), the rate
of play three minutes for all the moves plus a two second increment per
move. There is live game coverage and video on the official site.
First day: Carlsen and Aronian lead
Last year's dominant winner started off again in fantastic style: Magnus
Carlsen crushed a dangerous rival, Hikaru Nakamura, with the black
pieces in the very first round, which you can watch in the following YouTube
video.
Magnus went on to win his next three games – against Ponomariov, Kramnik
and Movsesian, before stumbling against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Boris Gelfand.
In the following rounds he beat the other young upstarts Caruana and Karjakin
to finish with ten points from fourteen games, nine of which were gained from
victories.
Levon Aronian's start was not as dramatic, starting with a
draw and a loss. After eight games he had three wins and a total of five points.
Then came a truly spectacular phase with five victories in a row, until in the
final game of the day he dropped the full point to Hikaru Nakamura. Levon's
score: 10.0/14, equal to the leader Magnus Carlsen.
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won his first three games – against
Gelfand, Aronian and Mamdeov – drew two and won two more, before losing
his first to Hikaru Nakamura. Shakh then beat Kramnik and Vachier-Lagrave, lost
to Caruana and Karjakin, and finished with a win against Sivdler and a draw
against compatriot Radjabov. He is currently half a point behind the top two
players.
Hikaru Nakamura, whom many considered a dark horse favourite,
started with three losses (against Carlsen, Kramnik and Vachier-Lagrave) a win
against Caruana and a loss to Karjakin. At least he was able to score against
Radjabov and Mamedyarov, before losing to Eljanov and Grischuk. At that point
the American had 3.5/10 and looked like heading for a disaster. But Hikaru then
won four games in a row – against no less than Ponomariov, Movsesian,
Gelfand and Aronian – to stay in places 7-10 on the scoreboard.
The games were broadcast live on
the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com.
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Light, which gives you immediate access. You can also use the program
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