| World Blitz Championship (2019) |
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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)
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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Jan-06-20
 | | Diademas: Finally!
Nice to have you back <Annie K.>! |
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Jan-07-20
 | | 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 ;) |
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Jan-07-20
| | 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 ;) |
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Jan-07-20
 | | 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. ;) |
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Jan-07-20
| | Tabanus: Coming up! :) It will take some days though, it's quite time-consuming. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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Jan-10-20
 | | 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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