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The first leg of the four-tournament 2016 Grand Chess Tour was held in Paris, France, from June 9 to June 12. The tournament consisted of a two-day rapid round-robin and a two-day blitz double-round-robin; in the combined standings, the results of the rapid games counted double (2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss) while blitz games counted normally. In case of a tie for first place, a tie-break match would decide the winner. The rapid games were played on June 9 (5 rounds) and June 10 (4 rounds); the time control was 25 minutes per player with a 10-second increment per move. Blitz games and combined final results: Grand Chess Tour Paris Blitz (2016) Next Grand Chess Tour (see http://grandchesstour.org/2016-pari... for standings) leg: YourNextMove Rapid (2016) (rapid stage at Leuven, Belgium).
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Year | Event/Locale | Opening |
| 1. Fressinet vs Vachier-Lagrave |
| ½-½ | 44 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | D85 Grunfeld |
| 2. Fressinet vs Topalov |
| ½-½ | 45 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst |
| 3. Giri vs Kramnik |
| ½-½ | 44 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | A14 English |
| 4. So vs Caruana |
| ½-½ | 43 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense |
| 5. Vachier-Lagrave vs Aronian |
| ½-½ | 56 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense |
| 6. Carlsen vs Nakamura |
 | ½-½ | 35 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights |
| 7. Topalov vs Giri |
| 1-0 | 44 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | C28 Vienna Game |
| 8. Aronian vs So |
| 0-1 | 52 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav |
| 9. Nakamura vs Fressinet |
| 1-0 | 54 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | D31 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 10. Kramnik vs Vachier-Lagrave |
| 0-1 | 62 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | A04 Reti Opening |
| 11. Caruana vs Carlsen |
| 0-1 | 48 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | C78 Ruy Lopez |
| 12. Topalov vs Kramnik |
| 0-1 | 31 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense |
| 13. Carlsen vs Aronian |
| 1-0 | 68 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense |
| 14. Fressinet vs Caruana |
| 1-0 | 78 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | D78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6 |
| 15. Giri vs Nakamura |
| ½-½ | 35 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | A14 English |
| 16. Carlsen vs So |
| 0-1 | 58 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense |
| 17. Nakamura vs Kramnik |
| ½-½ | 37 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | D35 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 18. Topalov vs Caruana |
| 0-1 | 29 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | C45 Scotch Game |
| 19. Giri vs Aronian |
| ½-½ | 36 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | D37 Queen's Gambit Declined |
| 20. Kramnik vs So |
| ½-½ | 56 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | D78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6 |
| 21. Caruana vs Giri |
| ½-½ | 45 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | C80 Ruy Lopez, Open |
| 22. Vachier-Lagrave vs Carlsen |
| 0-1 | 26 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | C78 Ruy Lopez |
| 23. Nakamura vs Topalov |
| 1-0 | 83 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | A29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto |
| 24. Aronian vs Fressinet |
| 1-0 | 49 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | A20 English |
| 25. So vs Vachier-Lagrave |
| 0-1 | 52 | 2016 | Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid | D83 Grunfeld, Grunfeld Gambit |
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| Jun-11-16 | | fisayo123: I think Nakamura is one of the greatest blitz players ever due to his exploits on ICC, playchess and chess.com. He's a blitz and bullet legend. In the latter no one has yet to seriously compete with him and that bares credence to his incredible speed of thought. That's beyond dispute. I'm not the only one to believe this by the way. Seirawan believes he's the best blitz player ever. <The Rocket> Also, who else here is out of form that could challenge Nakamura or Carlsen in blitz? Caruana had a horrible rapid event, but he was never going to do anything in blitz. MVL, yes, but he's 3rd right now and just played a very grueling 11 round tournament in France just a few days prior to this event. Nepomniachtchi isn't here. Grischuk isn't here. No Andreikin either. Everything is as expected. |
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| Jun-11-16 | | 1971: I think its fair, Naka is a clear notch above the rest of the field besides Carlsen in speed play. |
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| Jun-11-16 | | The Rocket: <Seirawan believes he's the best blitz player ever. <The Rocket>> Which is an insane statement, contrary to all the facts showing Carlsen to be a superior blitz player. Nakamura lost a blitz match to Caruana, for god sake! |
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| Jun-11-16 | | thegoodanarchist: <fisayo123: <My point is that Topa deserves to be here> Yes, he deserves to be here with only 1 win in 17 rounds.> I haven't seen the blitz results, but in rapid there were three other players with only 1 rapid win. Do you think before you post or just write down whatever drivel comes out of your mouth? |
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| Jun-11-16 | | Absentee: <fisayo123: I think Nakamura is one of the greatest blitz players ever due to his exploits on ICC, playchess and chess.com. He's a blitz and bullet legend. In the latter no one has yet to seriously compete with him and that bares credence to his incredible speed of thought.> Is there any other top player who plays bullet? |
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Jun-11-16
 | | chancho: Seirawan can think what he likes, but the FIDE list says: https://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?... |
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| Jun-11-16 | | 1971: Seirawan took it too lfar. He's not even the best alive. Then you Fischer, Capa, Anand to name a few.. |
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| Jun-11-16 | | thegoodanarchist: <In the latter no one has yet to seriously compete with him and that bares credence to his incredible speed of thought.> Ok, that answers my question - it's the second one. |
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| Jun-11-16 | | Absentee: <thegoodanarchist: Or are you one of those people who thinks his opinions are correct and other people's opinions are wrong?> No, that would be me.
(Insert smileys to denote humorous intent.) |
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| Jun-11-16 | | The Rocket: If psychology is put aside, blitz (at least with increment) correlates heavily with overall chess prowess. It's the same game being played... |
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| Jun-11-16 | | fisayo123: <Absentee>
http://chess.kivij.info/icc.shtml - ICC ratings (Naka doesn't play there anymore. Carlsen recently played a blitz tournament there as well) https://www.chess.com/livechess/pla... - Chess.com ratings (Naka plays here now). Nakamura's dominance of internet blitz is unparalleled. Maybe you can make a case of Carlsen being as good or better in blitz OTB, but very difficult to prove as "facts". Nakamura didn't even play any of the blitz world championships Carlsen won. |
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| Jun-11-16 | | The Rocket: <Seirawan took it too lfar.> Seirawan is delusional. It's national bias, that's all. He wouldn't ever say that about a foreign player with Nakamuras record in blitz. |
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| Jun-11-16 | | The Rocket: Or rather <non-american player>, to be precise. |
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Jun-11-16
| | chancho: Standings after round 9:
http://d3mm01d148en9h.cloudfront.ne... Tomorrow should be quite the barnburner, man. |
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| Jun-11-16 | | Eyal: <Nakamura didn't even play any of the blitz world championships Carlsen won.> Actually, he did. In 2014 he finished 3rd, a point behind Carlsen (http://chess-results.com/tnr138146....). And I think the only other World Blitz Championship Nakamura played was in 2010 - where Carlsen also participated; he finished 4th-5th, two points behind Carlsen (who was 3rd) and three points behind the winner, Aronian (http://en.chessbase.com/post/aronia...). |
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| Jun-11-16 | | 1971: <TheRocket: Seirawan is delusional. It's national bias, that's all. He wouldn't ever say that about a foreign player with Nakamuras record in blitz.> Yeah when I heard that I was like what the f is this dude on, that was during that Blitz tourney with Kasparov (who could have easily won that). Seirawan is good but he tends to talk a lot of fluff in down time. There's no way Naka's better than Carlsen in anything. I thought that's been proven definitively a bunch of times already. |
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| Jun-11-16 | | ndg2: Strange, Caru faired much better in Blitz today than yesterday in Rapids. Thought it would come the other way around. |
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Jun-11-16
 | | keypusher: Is blitz done for the day? what are the standings? |
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| Jun-11-16 | | john barleycorn: thanks <chancho> for posting the link with the standings incl. first day of blitz. some excitement to be expected tomorrow. however, the So-natics get silenced. |
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| Jun-11-16 | | BOSTER: For me it's not clear how
<chancho> gets updated information
first. |
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| Jun-11-16 | | Absentee: He's connected with the chess cartels. |
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| Jun-11-16 | | DeepTrouble: fisayo123:
<Maybe you can make a case of Carlsen being as good or better in blitz OTB, but very difficult to prove as "facts"> Carlsen is higher rated than Nakamura in OTB blitz (2931 vs 2896 live rating). He also defeated Nakamura 25.5-14.5 (or was it 26.5-13.5?) in their private 40 game blitz match a few years ago. So you could definitely make a case of Carlsen being slightly stronger in blitz, but in any case these guys play at a comparable level. <Nakamura didn't even play any of the blitz world championships Carlsen won> He did: In 2014 and 2010. Both times he scored less points than Carlsen (who also won the 2014 championships). It's also worth noting that Nakamura has never won a blitz world championship. These results only go to show that OTB blitz and online blitz is not necessarily the same thing. Nakamura is a superb online blitz/bullet player, but he's not been able to demonstrate the same superiority in OTB blitz. Here players like Carlsen has performed better over the years. |
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Jun-11-16
 | | Chessgames Bookie: Betting on the final day's action is now open:
Grand Chess Tour Paris (blitz): Day 2 Best Score
Grand Chess Tour Paris (blitz) rd 10: So - Carlsen
Grand Chess Tour Paris (blitz) rd 10: Nakamura - Caruana
Grand Chess Tour Paris (blitz) rd 11: Vachier-Lagrave - Nakamura
Grand Chess Tour Paris (blitz) rd 11: Caruana - Carlsen
Grand Chess Tour Paris (blitz) rd 12: Carlsen - Vachier-Lagrave
Grand Chess Tour Paris (blitz) rd 12: Nakamura - Aronian
Grand Chess Tour Paris (blitz) rd 13: Kramnik - Nakamura
Grand Chess Tour Paris (blitz) rd 13: Aronian - Carlsen
Grand Chess Tour Paris (blitz) rd 14: Carlsen - Kramnik
Grand Chess Tour Paris (blitz) rd 15: Topalov - Nakamura: DRAW NO BET
Grand Chess Tour Paris (blitz) rd 16: Carlsen - Topalov
Grand Chess Tour Paris (blitz) rd 17: Nakamura - So
Grand Chess Tour Paris (blitz) rd 18: Carlsen - Nakamura
Good luck everybody, and have fun!
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| Jun-11-16 | | KnightVBishop: In terms of chess understanding
can Magnus compete with Fabiano in classical chess? |
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| Jun-11-16 | | rogge: You never run out of lame questions, do you. |
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