Showing posts with label World Blitz Chess Championship 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Blitz Chess Championship 2010. Show all posts

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Aronian Declared Blitz King!

18 November 2010, Kuala Lumpur – GM Aronian Levon (pix below) was declared the Blitz King despite losing the 37th and 38th rounds to Sergey Karjakin and Peter Svidler respectively, ended with 24.5 points. In second place was GM Radjabov Timour with 24.0 points.

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The table below is the standings up to rounds 38 from the official website.

GM Magnus Carlsen finished in third place with 23.5 points.

GM Hikaru Nakamura finished in fifth place wtih 21.5 points behing GM Boris Gelfand who finished in fourth rank with the same 21.5 points.


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The full cross table of 38 rounds of the World Blitz Championship, Moscow 2010 is shown below.

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To see more tables and results please visit the official website, http://www.russiachess.org/online/blitz/.

Or visit Susan Polgar’s Chess Daily news blog or click here.

Aronian Leads At World Blitz Chess Championship, Moscow

Aronian Levon 18 November 2010, Kuala Lumpur – At the World Blitz Chess Championship 2010 in Moscow, GM Aronian (pix left) leads with 18.5 points after 28 rounds of blitz chess. In second place is GM Carlsen with 17.0 pts. There is ten more rounds of blitz chess going into the third day of play.


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image To see more, please join the Internet Chess Club or click here. Or visit Susan Polgar’s Chess Daily news blog or click here.
Or, visit the official website, http://www.russiachess.org/online/blitz/.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Aronian, Carlsen Leaders At World Blitz Championship

World Blitz Chess Championship 2010, Moscow 17 November 2010, Kuala Lumpur – In Moscow, twenty of the world’s top chess players are playing in the World Blitz Championship over three days and 38 rounds of blitz chess play, Double Round Robin (DRR) format. Time control is 3 minutes plus 3 seconds increment. 14 rounds have played over the last two days and 10 rounds during the last day. Carlsen (pix  below left) is the top seed.

At the moment, Aronian and Carlsen are leading with 10 Magnus Carlsen points each and cross-table after 14 rounds is shown below.

 

 

 

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To read more, please visit the official website, www.russiachess.org or click here.