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Norway Chess (Blitz) Tournament
Magnus Carlsen7.5/9(+7 -1 =1)[games]
Anish Giri6.5/9(+5 -1 =3)[games]
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave6/9(+5 -2 =2)[games]
Vladimir Kramnik6/9(+4 -1 =4)[games]
Levon Aronian4.5/9(+1 -1 =7)[games]
Pentala Harikrishna4/9(+4 -5 =0)[games]
Veselin Topalov3/9(+1 -4 =4)[games]
Nils Grandelius2.5/9(+0 -4 =5)[games]
Chao Li2.5/9(+1 -5 =3)[games]
Pavel Eljanov2.5/9(+1 -5 =3)[games]
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Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
Norway Chess (Blitz) (2016)

Background

The Norway Blitz was played immediately prior to the main event, Norway Chess (2016), basically to determine who got five starts as White and four starts as Black.

When

Monday 18 April 2016.

Where

Scandic Stavanger City Hotel, Stavanger, Norway.

Format

Round robin, nine rounds.

Time Control

3 min, + 2 sec increment for each move. Chief arbiter: Karl-Johan Rist.

Tie Breaks

1. Sonneborn-Berger
2. Most wins
3. Most wins with black
4. Drawing of lots

Comments

Carlsen had 7.5/8 leading into the final round. He overplayed his game in an attempt to win and lost to Giri. However, he still won the event and lifted his blitz rating to over 2900.

                         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
 1 Carlsen         2890  * 0 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1  7½
 2 Giri            2793  1 * 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1  6½
 3 Vachier-Lagrave 2872  0 1 * ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 1  6
 4 Kramnik         2817  0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1  6
 5 Aronian         2814  0 ½ ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½  4½
 6 Harikrishna     2774  0 0 0 0 0 * 1 1 1 1  4
 7 Topalov         2647  0 ½ 1 0 ½ 0 * ½ 0 ½  3
 8 Grandelius      2604  ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ 0  2½
 9 Li Chao         2633  0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 ½ * ½  2½
10 Eljanov         2679  0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ *  2½
Regulations: https://norwaychess.no/en/reglement/
Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/car...
ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/norwa...
chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t...
FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament...
Wikipedia article: Norway Chess#2016

Previous: Norway Chess (Blitz) (2015). Next: Norway Chess (Blitz) (2017). Main event: Norway Chess (2016)

 page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 45  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Harikrishna vs Vachier-Lagrave 0-1432016Norway Chess (Blitz)B90 Sicilian, Najdorf
2. Aronian vs N Grandelius  ½-½652016Norway Chess (Blitz)A48 King's Indian
3. Eljanov vs C Li  ½-½622016Norway Chess (Blitz)A48 King's Indian
4. Vachier-Lagrave vs Eljanov 1-0362016Norway Chess (Blitz)A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack
5. Carlsen vs Kramnik 1-0352016Norway Chess (Blitz)D35 Queen's Gambit Declined
6. N Grandelius vs Giri 0-1412016Norway Chess (Blitz)A20 English
7. C Li vs Harikrishna  0-1562016Norway Chess (Blitz)D41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch
8. Topalov vs Aronian  ½-½242016Norway Chess (Blitz)D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation
9. Kramnik vs C Li  1-0292016Norway Chess (Blitz)A48 King's Indian
10. Giri vs Topalov  ½-½422016Norway Chess (Blitz)B30 Sicilian
11. Aronian vs Carlsen 0-1432016Norway Chess (Blitz)D31 Queen's Gambit Declined
12. Eljanov vs N Grandelius  1-0472016Norway Chess (Blitz)A48 King's Indian
13. Giri vs Vachier-Lagrave 0-1572016Norway Chess (Blitz)B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
14. Aronian vs Giri ½-½122016Norway Chess (Blitz)E60 King's Indian Defense
15. Carlsen vs C Li 1-0532016Norway Chess (Blitz)D75 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O c5, 8.dxc5
16. N Grandelius vs Harikrishna  0-1372016Norway Chess (Blitz)A13 English
17. Topalov vs Eljanov  ½-½612016Norway Chess (Blitz)A11 English, Caro-Kann Defensive System
18. Vachier-Lagrave vs Kramnik  ½-½702016Norway Chess (Blitz)C67 Ruy Lopez
19. Kramnik vs N Grandelius  ½-½462016Norway Chess (Blitz)A48 King's Indian
20. Giri vs Carlsen 1-0232016Norway Chess (Blitz)C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense
21. Harikrishna vs Topalov  1-0432016Norway Chess (Blitz)D02 Queen's Pawn Game
22. C Li vs Vachier-Lagrave 0-1452016Norway Chess (Blitz)A45 Queen's Pawn Game
23. Eljanov vs Aronian  ½-½232016Norway Chess (Blitz)E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3
24. N Grandelius vs Carlsen ½-½512016Norway Chess (Blitz)A13 English
25. Giri vs Eljanov 1-0362016Norway Chess (Blitz)C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense
 page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 45  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Apr-19-16  notyetagm: Damn, Aronian played 7(!) draws in 9 blitz games.

Norway Blitz (2016)/Levon Aronian

Apr-19-16
Premium Chessgames Member		  Penguincw: I thought Giri would be the one with the most draws...

Anyway, Carlsen, Giri, MVL, Kramnik and Aronian finish in the top half of the tournament, so they'll get white in their R1 game.

Harikrishna with no draws.

Apr-19-16  thegoodanarchist: Congratulations to the Champ! Good show.
Apr-19-16  john barleycorn: wow, Carlsen now rated at 2915 in blitz.
Apr-21-16  scholes: Carlsen now Nor 1 in all formats of the game

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