World Blitz Championship day one: Anand leads
16.11.2009
– World Champion Vishy Anand, who turns forty in just under a month, is leading this event with 12.0/14 points, two more than his nearest rival Magnus Carlsen. Behind the Norwegian we find a big surprise figure (hint: he is almost twenty years older than Anand), followed by Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Grischuk. A photo report will follow, here for now are the results and games.
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Blitz Championship
This event is being held on November 16, 17 and 18 in the showroom of the Red
Square mall GUM. Time controls are three minutes for the whole game + two seconds
increment per move.
The event is a 22-player double round-robin, i.e. it has a total of 42 rounds,
which are played on three days. The participants include the players from the
Tal Memorial, plus twelve invitees:
Participants of the Tal Memorial
No. |
Player |
Nat. |
1 |
Magnus Carlsen |
NOR |
2 |
Viswanathan Anand |
IND |
3 |
Levon Aronian |
ARM |
4 |
Vladimir Kramnik |
RUS |
5 |
Boris Gelfand |
ISR |
6 |
Peter Svidler |
RUS |
7 |
Peter Leko |
HUN |
8 |
Alexander Morozevich |
RUS |
9 |
Vassily Ivanchuk |
UKR |
10 |
Ruslan Ponomariov |
UKR |
Additional players
| 11 |
Sergey Karjakin |
| 12 |
Vugar Gashimov |
| 13 |
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov |
| 14 |
Evgeny Bareev |
| 15 |
Vladislav Tkachiev |
| 16 |
Zhou Jianchao |
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| 17 |
Anatoly Karpov |
12th World Champion |
| 18 |
Alexandra Kosteniuk |
Women's World Champion |
| 19 |
Leinier Dominguez |
Current World Blitz Champion |
| 20 |
Alexander Grischuk |
2006 World Blitz Champion |
| 21 |
Dmitri Jakovenko |
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| 22 |
Judit Polgar |
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The event started with a tremendous showing by World Champion Viswanathan Anand,
who scored 12 points in 14 games (ten wins, four draws). His performance: 3022!
In second place we have Magnus Carlsen, who won nine games, lost three (one
against Alexandra Kosteniuk) and drew two. Magnus' performance: 2860.
In third place we find not Kramnik, Grischuk, Aronian or Ivanchuk but (would
you believe it) Anatoly Karpov, twelfth World Champion and now 58 years old.
"Tolya" scored 9.0/14, with five wins, eight draws and only one loss.
Amongst his victims was Magnus Carlsen, who lost to Karpov in round 14 in 74
moves.
Cross tables after 14 (of 42) rounds
| No. |
Player |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
Pts |
| 1 |
Anand |
X |
|
|
= |
1 |
1 |
1 |
= |
1 |
1 |
|
= |
= |
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
|
1 |
1 |
12.0 |
| 2 |
Carlsen |
|
X |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
= |
|
|
1 |
0 |
|
|
= |
|
1 |
|
1 |
0 |
10.0 |
| 3 |
Karpov |
|
1 |
X |
|
= |
= |
0 |
= |
|
= |
|
|
= |
1 |
|
= |
= |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
= |
9.0 |
| 4 |
Kramnik |
= |
0 |
|
X |
|
|
0 |
|
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
= |
|
= |
|
1 |
8.5 |
| 5 |
Grischuk |
0 |
0 |
= |
|
X |
1 |
|
= |
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
|
0 |
= |
= |
1 |
1 |
= |
1 |
|
8.5 |
| 6 |
Karjakin |
0 |
0 |
= |
|
0 |
X |
1 |
1 |
|
= |
|
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
= |
|
= |
0 |
1 |
1 |
8.0 |
| 7 |
Bareev |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
0 |
X |
|
1 |
|
= |
1 |
|
0 |
0 |
1 |
= |
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
8.0 |
| 8 |
Ponomariov |
= |
0 |
= |
|
= |
0 |
|
X |
1 |
|
= |
= |
|
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
= |
|
0 |
|
8.0 |
| 9 |
Ivanchuk |
0 |
0 |
|
1 |
|
|
0 |
0 |
X |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
= |
|
1 |
|
1 |
7.5 |
| 10 |
Svidler |
0 |
= |
= |
0 |
|
= |
|
|
0 |
X |
1 |
0 |
|
|
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
1 |
|
7.5 |
| 11 |
Aronian |
|
|
|
0 |
0 |
|
= |
= |
0 |
0 |
X |
1 |
0 |
= |
|
|
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
7.5 |
| 12 |
Leko |
= |
|
|
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
= |
1 |
1 |
0 |
X |
1 |
= |
= |
|
|
= |
|
1 |
|
= |
7.0 |
| 13 |
Morozevich |
= |
0 |
= |
0 |
|
0 |
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
0 |
X |
= |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
|
|
6.5 |
| 14 |
Gashimov |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
1 |
|
0 |
|
= |
= |
= |
X |
1 |
1 |
|
= |
|
= |
|
0 |
6.5 |
| 15 |
Polgar |
|
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
= |
0 |
0 |
X |
|
0 |
1 |
= |
|
0 |
1 |
6.0 |
| 16 |
Naiditsch |
|
|
= |
0 |
= |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
0 |
|
X |
1 |
|
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
6.0 |
| 17 |
Dominguez |
0 |
= |
= |
|
= |
= |
= |
0 |
|
0 |
|
|
0 |
|
1 |
0 |
X |
|
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
5.5 |
| 18 |
Jakovenko |
|
|
|
= |
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
= |
0 |
0 |
= |
1 |
= |
0 |
|
|
X |
|
1 |
0 |
1 |
5.0 |
| 19 |
Tkachiev |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
= |
|
= |
|
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
|
= |
1 |
1 |
|
X |
1 |
0 |
|
4.5 |
| 20 |
Gelfand |
|
|
0 |
= |
= |
1 |
|
|
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
|
= |
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
X |
1 |
1 |
4.5 |
| 21 |
Mamedyarov |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
|
1 |
|
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
X |
|
4.0 |
| 22 |
Kosteniuk |
0 |
1 |
= |
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
|
0 |
= |
|
1 |
0 |
1 |
|
0 |
|
0 |
|
X |
4.0 |
Standings after 14 rounds
| No. |
Sd. |
Player |
Nat. |
Rtng. |
Pts |
wins |
SB |
| 1 |
20 |
Anand, Viswanathan |
IND |
2788 |
12.0 |
10 |
79.00 |
| 2 |
19 |
Carlsen, Magnus |
NOR |
2801 |
10.0 |
9 |
70.00 |
| 3 |
17 |
Karpov, Anatoly |
RUS |
2619 |
9.0 |
5 |
56.50 |
| 4 |
5 |
Kramnik, Vladimir |
RUS |
2772 |
8.5 |
7 |
55.75 |
| 5 |
12 |
Grischuk, Alexander |
RUS |
2736 |
8.5 |
6 |
52.50 |
| 6 |
16 |
Karjakin, Sergey |
UKR |
2723 |
8.0 |
6 |
49.75 |
| 7 |
8 |
Bareev, Evgeny |
RUS |
2634 |
8.0 |
7 |
53.50 |
| 8 |
11 |
Ponomariov, Ruslan |
UKR |
2739 |
8.0 |
5 |
54.25 |
| 9 |
4 |
Ivanchuk, Vassily |
UKR |
2739 |
7.5 |
7 |
47.00 |
| 10 |
10 |
Svidler, Peter |
RUS |
2754 |
7.5 |
6 |
46.00 |
| 11 |
1 |
Aronian, Levon |
ARM |
2786 |
7.5 |
6 |
40.25 |
| 12 |
3 |
Leko, Peter |
HUN |
2752 |
7.0 |
4 |
46.75 |
| 13 |
9 |
Morozevich, Alexander |
RUS |
2750 |
6.5 |
5 |
44.75 |
| 14 |
6 |
Gashimov, Vugar |
AZE |
2758 |
6.5 |
4 |
45.25 |
| 15 |
21 |
Polgar, Judit |
HUN |
2680 |
6.0 |
5 |
39.75 |
| 16 |
18 |
Naiditsch, Arkadij |
GER |
2689 |
6.0 |
5 |
36.75 |
| 17 |
15 |
Dominguez Perez, Leinier |
CUB |
2719 |
5.5 |
3 |
36.25 |
| 18 |
2 |
Jakovenko, Dmitry |
RUS |
2736 |
5.0 |
3 |
29.75 |
| 19 |
14 |
Tkachiev, Vladislav |
FRA |
2642 |
4.5 |
3 |
27.00 |
| 20 |
22 |
Gelfand, Boris |
ISR |
2758 |
4.5 |
3 |
27.75 |
| 21 |
13 |
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar |
AZE |
2719 |
4.0 |
4 |
23.50 |
| 22 |
7 |
Kosteniuk, Alexandra |
RUS |
2517 |
4.0 |
3 |
30.50 |
The World Blitz Championship round two covered on the official site's web
cam. You will spot Carlsen vs Kramnik (1-0), Anand vs Ivanchuk (1-0) and Bareev
vs Karjakin (Karjakin won) in the pictures. You can watch the archived live
stream here
(click on the image on the top left and then on the enlarge button for full
screen).
Links
The games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the
chess server Playchess.com.
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