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SportAccord Mind Games will be held in Beijing, China between the 12th of December and 20th December 2012. The World Mind Games was held for the first time in 2008 and consisted of 5 disciplines: chess, bridge, draughts (checkers), go, and xiangqi (Chinese chess). SportAccord, the organizer of the Mind Games, is the umbrella organization for both Olympic and non-Olympic sports as well as for major organizers of conferences and sporting events.
Geoffrey Borg, FIDE CEO, and rapid winner Wang Yue
Le Quang Liem is the reigning World Blitz Champion. His showing so far has been solid as he is in 5th place
Aronian, who had a very weak showing in the rapids, came back and reminded the World of his strength in blitz chess. He started pretty well with a win against Ponomariov, a draw against Wang Yue and then three in a row victories against Wang Hao, Ivanchuk and Leko. He was stopped after Karjakin took advantage of a strange to win against Aronian with black. However the Armenian's day one finish was truly amazing with four triumphs in a row: Kamsky, Radjabov, Le Quang Liem and Dominguez all fell in a row to him.
Professional DGT boards come with two queens. Rumor has it that this is in case that a pawn is promoted before the queens are traded off. The truth is, as Giri here proves, that the spare queen is used to have a piece to fiddle with before anything comes off the board.
Nepomniachtchi, who is currently in second, started with a win against Ivanchuk, lost to Karjakin and Radjabov and then won an amazing six in a row. He finished the day with a draw against Kamsky which is good enough for 7.5/10
Blitz means time scrambles and extra pressure
Grischuk's +2 (6.0/10) is enough to put him in fourth thanks to tiebreaks
The field is just incredilby competitive. Prove of this is that Leko, the rapid winner, is currently tied for last with Dominguez who was World Blitz Champion only a few years ago.
Tomorrow there will be ten more rounds, and the blitz finishes on Monday with the last set of ten.
Ten more rounds means Dominguez has ten more chances to recover tomorrow
| Name | Rtg | FED | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Pts | |
| 1 | Aronian Levon | 2817 | ARM | * * | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8½ | |||||
| 2 | Nepomniachtchi, I | 2830 | RUS | * * | 1 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7½ | |||||
| 3 | Mamedyarov, S | 2721 | AZE | * * | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6½ | |||||
| 4 | Grischuk Alexander | 2798 | RUS | * * | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| 5 | Le Quang Liem | 2841 | VIE | 0 | 0 | * * | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 6 | |||||
| 6 | Vachier-Lagrave, M | 2825 | FRA | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | * * | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 6 | |||||
| 7 | Radjabov Teimour | 2755 | AZE | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | * * | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 6 | |||||
| 8 | Karjakin Sergey | 2837 | RUS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | * * | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 5½ | |||||
| 9 | Kamsky Gata | 2671 | USA | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 | * * | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||
| 10 | Wang Yue | 2723 | CHN | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | * * | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 5 | |||||
| 11 | Giri Anish | 2747 | NED | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | * * | 1 | ½ | 3½ | |||||
| 12 | Ivanchuk Vassily | 2750 | UKR | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | * * | 1 | ½ | 3½ | |||||
| 13 | Ponomariov Ruslan | 2774 | UKR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | * * | 1 | ½ | 3 | |||||
| 14 | Wang Hao | 2698 | CHN | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | * * | ½ | 3 | |||||
| 15 | Dominguez Perez, L | 2769 | CUB | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | * * | 2½ | |||||
| 16 | Leko Peter | 2722 | HUN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | * * | 2½ |
Note: Blitz ratings used
Men Blitz games 1-10
Gunina is having a good time in China
Stefanova and Lagno kicked off the tournament with a draw against each other
Things in the Women's section looked very similar to the way the rapid progressed, with some big exceptions. First of all Gunina is leading the blitz after winning the rapid, but she is doing in a very unusual way. She started with losses against Cmilyte and Muzychuk and then proceeded to destroy the rest of her opponents with eight wins in a row! Speaking of Muzychuk she turned around her dissmal performance in the rapid and is now second in the blitz only half a point away from Gunina.
Muzychuk has rebounded nicely!
Hou Yifan will need to win more games to do better than bronze this time
In third is the World Champion Hou Yifan with 6.5/10, half a point ahead of another Chinese player, Zhao Xue, who is in fourth. Ju Wenjun, who got bronze in the rapids, finished the day with four losses in a row and only has 2.5/10.
Ju Wenjun only has 2.5/10 but she has two thirds of the tournament left
Ushenina is back in China after losing the World Championship to Hou Yifan earlier this year. In the blitz she has scored 50%
| Rank | Name | Rtg | FED | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Pts |
| 1 | Gunina Valentina | 2527 | RUS | * * | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | |||||
| 2 | Muzychuk Anna | 2639 | SLO | 1 | * * | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7½ | |||||
| 3 | Hou Yifan | 2559 | CHN | 0 | * * | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6½ | |||||
| 4 | Zhao Xue | 2471 | CHN | 0 | 0 | ½ | * * | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| 5 | Koneru Humpy | 2558 | IND | 0 | 1 | * * | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 5½ | |||||
| 6 | Lagno Kateryna | 2532 | UKR | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | * * | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5½ | |||||
| 7 | Sebag Marie | 2501 | FRA | 1 | 1 | 0 | * * | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5½ | |||||
| 8 | Stefanova Antoaneta | 2508 | BUL | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | * * | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |||||
| 9 | Ushenina Anna | 2489 | UKR | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | * * | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||
| 10 | Kosteniuk Alexandra | 2612 | RUS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | * * | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 0 | 4½ | |||||
| 11 | Dzagnidze Nana | 2579 | GEO | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | * * | 0 | 1 | 4½ | |||||
| 12 | Paehtz Elisabeth | 2574 | GER | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | * * | 1 | 1 | ½ | 4 | |||||
| 13 | Kosintseva Tatiana | 2480 | RUS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | * * | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||
| 14 | Cramling Pia | 2430 | SWE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | * * | 1 | 3 | |||||
| 15 | Cmilyte Viktorija | 2532 | LTU | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | * * | 3 | |||||
| 16 | Ju Wenjun | 2454 | CHN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | * * | 2½ |
Note: Blitz ratings used
Women Blitz games one to ten
Photos by WGM Gu Xiaobing taken from the official FIDE website
| Thursday, December 12th | 14:00-19:00 Rapid Event: 1-4 rounds (men), 1-4 rounds (women) |
| Friday, December 13th | 14:00-19:00 Rapid Event: 5-7 rounds (men), 5-7 rounds (women) |
| Saturday, December 14th | 14:00-19:00 Blitz Event: 1-10 rounds (men), 1-10 rounds (women) |
| Sunday, December 15th | 14:00-19:00 Blitz Event: 11-20 rounds (men), 11-20 rounds (women) |
| Monday, December 16th | 14:00-19:00 Blitz Event: 21-30 rounds (men), 21-30 rounds (women) |
| Tuesday, December 17th | 14:00-19:00 Basque System: 1-3 rounds (men), 1-3 rounds (women) |
| Wednesday, December 18th | 11:00-16:00 Basque System: 4-5 rounds (men), 4-5 rounds (women) & Closing Ceremony |
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