11/10/2019 – Levon Aronian and Sergey Karjakin surged in the final day of blitz to finish joint first in the overall standings in Bucharest. Aronian won a two-game rapid playoff to be declared the winner of the Superbet Rapid & Blitz. Live games and commentary from 13:00 UTC (14:00 CET, 8:00 AM EST). | Photo: Lennart Ootes / Grand Chess Tour
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Day 5 - Blitz
The Superbet Rapid & Blitz, taking place in the Stejarii Country Club in Bucharest, Romania, the 6th out of a total of 8 events in the 2019 Grand Chess Tour. Seven of the twelve tour "regulars", Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin and Wesley So, are joined by event wild cards Vlasidlav Artemiev, Le Quang Liem and Anton Korobov.
The final two days are a blitz double round-robin, with 18 rounds of 5 minutes plus 3-second delay. Rapid games count double, with 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw.
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Commentary by WGM Jennifer Shahade, GMs Maurice Ashley, Alejandro Ramirez and Cristian Chirila
Blitz standings
Rapid final standings
The opening
The opening ceremony of the 2019 Superbet Rapid & Blitz (November 6th to 10th) was held at the Stejali Country Club last Tuesday afternoon. The day’s activities started off with a press conference which included the guest of honour for the tournament (Former World Number 1 Tennis player Boris Becker) as well as GM’s Fabiano Caruana, Viswanathan Anand and Wesley So.
The drawing of lots was then conducted as part of the opening ceremony before the players participated in a series of short exhibition games against some of the best Romanian junior players and some local corporate executives.
During the opening ceremony, Mr Michael Khodarkovsky (Executive Director of the Grand Chess Tour) announced that Superbet has already committed to hosting a classical tournament as part of the 2020 Grand Chess Tour calendar. The 2020 tournament will be held in May 2020.
Boris Becker and Mikhail Khodarkovsky | Photo: Lennart Ootes / Grand Chess Tour
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