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The World Blitz Championship is being held in two phases:
Qualification tournament (Swiss system, 11 double rounds), which took place on November 19 and 20. Players with a rating of 2625 or higher were entitled to participate, with ten wild cards nominated by the organisers. Venue: Gogolevsky bld., 14, Central House of Chessplayer, named after Mikhail M. Botvinnik.
The participants in the final are nominated as follows:
The rate of play is 4 minutes per game for each player, plus 2 seconds per move starting from move one. The prizes are US $25,000 for the winner, $15,000 for the runner up, $10,000 for third place and further prizes ranging from $7,250 for fourth to $2,500 each for 11th-14th places and $1,500 each for 15th-18th places. If there are ties in the final standing order, then all respective prizes, excepting the first one, are equally shared between the players who tied. The players who are the first, second and third in the final standing order will be awarded, respectively, with gold, silver and bronze medals.
Preliminaries of the World Blitz, with Rublevsky vs Lahno in the foreground
Rustam Kasimdzhanov vs Ruslan Ponomariov (with Michael Adams in the background)
Blitz hunks: Vladislav Tkachiev and Etienne Bacrot
The glare: Kateryna Lahno, who scored 5.5/8 in the first half, vs Laurent
Fressinet
Scenes from the World Blitz Championdhip – ©Europe
Echecs
Scenes from the second day – ©Europe
Echecs
No. | SNo. | Name | Fed. | FIDE | Total | MBch. |
1 | 7 | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | UZB | 2690 | 15.0 | 119.00 |
2 | 5 | Bacrot, Etienne | FRA | 2695 | 14.5 | 114.00 |
3 | 1 | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2729 | 14.5 | 114.00 |
4 | 44 | Savchenko, Boris | RUS | 2583 | 14.5 | 107.50 |
5 | 3 | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2705 | 14.0 | 113.50 |
6 | 36 | Dreev, Alexey | RUS | 2607 | 14.0 | 112.50 |
7 | 11 | Rublevsky, Sergei | RUS | 2676 | 14.0 | 112.00 |
8 | 38 | Korotylev, Alexey | RUS | 2600 | 14.0 | 108.00 |
9 | 21 | Fressinet, Laurent | FRA | 2654 | 13.5 | 105.50 |
10 | 18 | Tkachiev, Vladislav | FRA | 2661 | 13.0 | 123.00 |
11 | 31 | Fedorov, Alexei | BLR | 2612 | 13.0 | 101.50 |
12 | 17 | Sasikiran, Krishnan | IND | 2661 | 13.0 | 101.00 |
13 | 19 | Vallejo Pons, Francisco | ESP | 2660 | 13.0 | 91.00 |
14 | 14 | Movsesian, Sergei | SVK | 2670 | 12.5 | 109.00 |
15 | 24 | Volkov, Sergey | RUS | 2648 | 12.5 | 104.50 |
16 | 28 | Amonatov, Farrukh | TJK | 2637 | 12.5 | 96.50 |
17 | 33 | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | 2611 | 12.0 | 116.00 |
18 | 8 | Malakhov, Vladimir | RUS | 2690 | 12.0 | 112.00 |
19 | 9 | Van Wely, Loek | NED | 2679 | 12.0 | 110.50 |
20 | 25 | Moiseenko, Alexander | UKR | 2646 | 12.0 | 106.00 |
21 | 13 | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | RUS | 2674 | 12.0 | 104.50 |
22 | 4 | Wang, Yue | CHN | 2703 | 12.0 | 104.00 |
23 | 23 | Georgiev, Kiril | BUL | 2649 | 12.0 | 103.00 |
24 | 57 | Dlugy, Maxim | USA | 2518 | 12.0 | 100.50 |
25 | 45 | L'Ami, Erwin | NED | 2577 | 12.0 | 96.50 |
26 | 27 | Smirin, Ilia | ISR | 2639 | 12.0 | 92.50 |
27 | 42 | Kazhgaleyev, Murtas | KAZ | 2588 | 11.5 | 101.00 |
28 | 46 | Iljin, Artem | RUS | 2565 | 11.5 | 97.50 |
29 | 48 | Deviatkin, Andrei | RUS | 2555 | 11.5 | 96.50 |
30 | 50 | Tukmakov, Vladimir B | UKR | 2551 | 11.5 | 96.00 |
31 | 26 | Naiditsch, Arkadij | GER | 2639 | 11.5 | 96.00 |
32 | 32 | Potkin, Vladimir | RUS | 2612 | 11.5 | 91.00 |
33 | 52 | Psakhis, Lev | ISR | 2538 | 11.5 | 90.50 |
34 | 29 | Kobalia, Mikhail | RUS | 2631 | 11.0 | 98.50 |
35 | 12 | Onischuk, Alexander | USA | 2674 | 11.0 | 97.00 |
36 | 61 | Dobrov, Vladimir | RUS | 2499 | 11.0 | 92.50 |
37 | 16 | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 2668 | 10.5 | 104.00 |
38 | 34 | Pelletier, Yannick | SUI | 2609 | 10.5 | 104.00 |
39 | 43 | Akobian, Varuzhan | USA | 2585 | 10.5 | 99.50 |
40 | 15 | Krasenkow, Michal | POL | 2668 | 10.5 | 93.00 |
41 | 10 | Landa, Konstantin | RUS | 2678 | 10.5 | 93.00 |
42 | 20 | Sutovsky, Emil | ISR | 2655 | 10.5 | 90.00 |
43 | 53 | Novikov, Stanislav | RUS | 2534 | 10.0 | 102.50 |
44 | 35 | Tregubov, Pavel V. | RUS | 2609 | 10.0 | 98.00 |
45 | 55 | Rychagov, Andrey | RUS | 2528 | 10.0 | 90.50 |
46 | 2 | Akopian, Vladimir | ARM | 2713 | 10.0 | 85.50 |
47 | 22 | Bareev, Evgeny | RUS | 2653 | 9.5 | 110.50 |
48 | 62 | Lahno, Kateryna | UKR | 2459 | 9.5 | 108.50 |
49 | 37 | Huzman, Alexander | ISR | 2602 | 9.5 | 99.50 |
50 | 58 | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | RUS | 2515 | 9.5 | 98.50 |
51 | 6 | Almasi, Zoltan | HUN | 2691 | 9.5 | 94.00 |
52 | 39 | Vaganian, Rafael A | ARM | 2600 | 9.5 | 91.00 |
53 | 54 | Nevednichy, Vladislav | ROU | 2531 | 9.5 | 87.50 |
54 | 47 | Khismatullin, Denis | RUS | 2560 | 9.0 | 87.00 |
55 | 51 | Vaisser, Anatoly | FRA | 2539 | 8.5 | 103.50 |
56 | 56 | Gritsak, Orest | UKR | 2524 | 8.5 | 100.00 |
57 | 60 | Poluljahov, Aleksandr | RUS | 2505 | 8.5 | 97.00 |
58 | 41 | Lysyj, Igor | RUS | 2591 | 8.5 | 95.50 |
59 | 40 | Grigoriants, Sergey | RUS | 2591 | 8.0 | 97.00 |
60 | 59 | Rashkovsky, Nukhim N | RUS | 2506 | 7.5 | 79.00 |
61 | 30 | Aleksandrov, Aleksej | BLR | 2614 | 7.5 | 78.50 |
62 | 63 | Markosian, David S. | ARM | 2394 | 5.5 | 92.50 |
63 | 49 | Smagin, Sergey | RUS | 2551 | 4.5 | 64.50 |
64 | 64 | Zilbert, Oleg | RUS | 2355 | 2.5 | 84.50 |