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TOURNAMENT STANDINGS
World Blitz Championship Tournament

Magnus Carlsen16.5/21(+13 -1 =7)[games]
Hikaru Nakamura16.5/21(+13 -1 =7)[games]
Vladimir Kramnik15/21(+13 -4 =4)[games]
Alexander Grischuk14/21(+10 -3 =8)[games]
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave14/21(+10 -3 =8)[games]
Alireza Firouzja13.5/21(+12 -6 =3)[games]
Vladislav Artemiev13.5/21(+10 -4 =7)[games]
Yangyi Yu13.5/21(+10 -4 =7)[games]
Maxim Matlakov13.5/21(+10 -4 =7)[games]
Jan-Krzysztof Duda13.5/21(+10 -4 =7)[games]
Dmitry Andreikin13.5/21(+10 -4 =7)[games]
Vladimir Fedoseev13.5/21(+12 -6 =3)[games]
Anish Giri13.5/21(+9 -3 =9)[games]
Alexander Zubov13.5/21(+12 -6 =3)[games]
Levon Aronian13.5/21(+10 -4 =7)[games]
Hao Wang13.5/21(+9 -3 =9)[games]
Ernesto Inarkiev13.5/21(+11 -5 =5)[games]
Peter Svidler13.5/21(+11 -5 =5)[games]
Boris Gelfand13.5/21(+11 -5 =5)[games]
Ivan Cheparinov13.5/21(+11 -5 =5)[games]
Aleksey Dreev13/21(+8 -3 =10)[games]
Ian Nepomniachtchi13/21(+10 -5 =6)[games]
Rauf Mamedov13/21(+10 -5 =6)[games]
A R Saleh Salem13/21(+12 -7 =2)[games]
Maksim Chigaev13/21(+13 -8 =0)[games]
Radoslaw Wojtaszek13/21(+10 -5 =6)[games]
Alexander Morozevich13/21(+11 -6 =4)[games]
Harsha Bharathakoti13/21(+12 -7 =2)[games]
Daniel Fridman13/21(+10 -5 =6)[games]
Vidit Santosh Gujrathi12.5/21(+9 -5 =7)[games]
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov12.5/21(+9 -5 =7)[games]
Evgeny Tomashevsky12.5/21(+7 -3 =11)[games]
* (206 players total; 174 players not shown. Click here for longer list.)

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
World Blitz Championship (2019)

The 2019 King Salman FIDE World Blitz Championship was a 21-round Swiss open (for players rated >2550) held at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia, 29-30 December, with the participation of 159 GM's, including defending champion Magnus Carlsen. The prize fund was $350,000, with $60,000 to the winner. Time control: 3 minutes per player for all moves, with 2 seconds added per move from move one. If there was a tie for 1st place, the top two players according to the first eligible tiebreak criterion would compete in a play-off match consisting of two 3+2 blitz games. If the score was still level, the players would play a sudden death or Armageddon game (in which the player with the white pieces would get 5 minutes to Black's 4, with a 2-second increment per move after move 60, while a draw counted as a win for Black). No players with baseball caps, t-shirts, jeans, shorts, sneakers or inappropriate dress were allowed in the playing area. No penalty was imposed on a player if he was late for any of his games. Chief arbiter: Panagiotis Nikolopoulos.

Magnus Carlsen took his 5th title (and 3rd in a row) with 16.5/21 and then 1.5/2 vs Nakamura in the World Blitz Championship (Tiebreaks) (2019). Kramnik was 3rd with 15/21.

Official site: https://wrbc2019.com/
Regulations: https://handbook.fide.com/files/han...
Chess-Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr499129....
Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/201...
ChessBase 1: https://en.chessbase.com/post/magnu...
ChessBase 2: https://en.chessbase.com/post/blitz...
Chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t...
TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew...
FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament...

Previous: World Blitz Championship (2018). See also World Blitz Championship (Women) (2019), World Rapid Championship (2019) and World Rapid Championship (Women) (2019)

 page 2 of 38; games 26-50 of 949  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
26. A Triapishko vs Sutovsky  1-0462019World Blitz ChampionshipA04 Reti Opening
27. G Quparadze vs M Yilmaz  1-0892019World Blitz ChampionshipB91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation
28. S P Sethuraman vs A Riazantsev  1-0352019World Blitz ChampionshipB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
29. B Gundavaa vs D Paravyan  1-0812019World Blitz ChampionshipC60 Ruy Lopez
30. M Chigaev vs A Kim 1-0402019World Blitz ChampionshipC00 French Defense
31. Fridman vs P Tregubov  1-0452019World Blitz ChampionshipE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
32. A Rosell vs A Rychagov  1-0682019World Blitz ChampionshipD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
33. Y Xu vs D Bocharov  1-0422019World Blitz ChampionshipD52 Queen's Gambit Declined
34. O Vastrukhin vs N Afanasiev  1-0372019World Blitz ChampionshipA04 Reti Opening
35. I Salgado Lopez vs N Studer 1-0292019World Blitz ChampionshipC07 French, Tarrasch
36. M Atabayev vs Zvjaginsev  1-0322019World Blitz ChampionshipC02 French, Advance
37. N Petrov vs V Gurvich  1-0272019World Blitz ChampionshipA35 English, Symmetrical
38. Sasikiran vs Yagupov  1-0472019World Blitz ChampionshipC10 French
39. M Perunovic vs K Mesropov  1-0532019World Blitz ChampionshipC11 French
40. T Batchuluun vs I Popov  1-0392019World Blitz ChampionshipA40 Queen's Pawn Game
41. V Belov vs S Pogosyan  1-0342019World Blitz ChampionshipE15 Queen's Indian
42. Sakaev vs A E Usov  1-0452019World Blitz ChampionshipD12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
43. T Luukkonen vs N Guliyev  1-0492019World Blitz ChampionshipB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
44. A Esipenko vs V Zarubitski  1-0232019World Blitz ChampionshipD12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
45. S Golubov vs A Tsvetkov  1-0462019World Blitz ChampionshipD02 Queen's Pawn Game
46. T Tengis vs Bologan  1-0482019World Blitz ChampionshipE63 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation
47. E Hansen vs M Mamatov  1-0292019World Blitz ChampionshipB50 Sicilian
48. A Donchenko vs Hassan S Al Mutairi  1-0362019World Blitz ChampionshipA41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6)
49. R Kezin vs Abdulrahman A Masrahi 1-0302019World Blitz ChampionshipD10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
50. Carlsen vs V Belov 1-0312019World Blitz ChampionshipB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
 page 2 of 38; games 26-50 of 949  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jan-06-20  fabelhaft: After 18 rounds Firouzja was in third place only 1.5 behind Carlsen and on the way to medal again, when he messed up a winning position against Carlsen and even lost in the end after the famous incident with the dropped piece.

After that he maybe lost some concentration and only got 0.5/3 in the last rounds, and the third medal behind Carlsen and Nakamura, who were in a class of their own in the final standings, suprisingly went to the ”retired” Kramnik.

Jan-06-20  fabelhaft: Karjakin finished 41st and won against Kramnik but in his remaining 9 games against players ranked top 63 he scored 2 draws and 7 losses.
Jan-06-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  Diademas: Finally!
Nice to have you back <Annie K.>!
Jan-07-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: You just wait till there's an intro and edited standings table. For example Grischuk had 14 points according to http://chess-results.com/tnr499129.....

Then it'll be even better ;)

Jan-07-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Fedoseev and Matlakov should have 13.5. Anyone keen to make an effort to check and fix this?

Or should I hack the standings table ;)

Jan-07-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  Annie K.: <Tab> as I recall there were a bunch of stubs (0 move games) rejected from this event. You are welcome to edit the standings, and an intro would be great too. ;)
Jan-07-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Coming up! :) It will take some days though, it's quite time-consuming.
Jan-08-20  tonsillolith: Holy crap, Kramnik finished third in this blitz event saturated with youngsters, even after spending some time congealing in retirement? My respect for him only grows.
Jan-10-20  mycroft2120: This is a fabulous result for Naka. I feel sorry for him that despite his best effort (take away that slip against Firouzja and he might have won the whole thing), Carlsen still gets the trophy.
Jan-10-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: Naka can't catch a break against Carlsen it seems. He'll either:get squashed in a tournament Carlsen is playing in, or: Caissa steps in and sticks the shank on Naka when he least can afford it. Star-Crossed.

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