| World Blitz Championship (Women) (2019) |
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The 2019 Women's World Blitz Championship was a 17-round Swiss open (for players rated >2250) held at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia, 29-30 December, with the participation of 122 players, including defending champion
Kateryna Lagno. Prize fund: $150,000, with $40,000 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 t-shirts, shorts, jeans, sneakers, baseball caps or inappropriate dress were allowed in the playing area. No penalty was imposed on a player if she was late for any of her games. Chief arbiter: Panagiotis Nikolopoulos. Kateryna Alexandrovna Lagno won again with 13/17, ahead of Anna Muzychuk (2nd) and Tan Zhongyi (3rd on tiebreak). Official site: https://wrbc2019.com/
Regulations: https://handbook.fide.com/files/han...
Chess-Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr499130....
Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/201...
ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/magnu...
Chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t...
TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew...
FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament... Previous: World Blitz Championship (Women) (2018). See also World Rapid Championship (Women) (2019), World Blitz Championship (2019) and World Rapid Championship (2019)
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Feb-13-23
 | | waddayaplay: 1000 blitz games , many of low quality, that fills the database... |
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Feb-13-23
 | | Williebob: Well, waddayapropose instead? |
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Feb-13-23
 | | Check It Out: The good news is that many blitz games have decent openings due to modern theory. The rest of the moves? That's not going to matter to the Opening Explorer, where I would think the main concern lies. |
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Feb-13-23
| | Williebob: Thank you, <CiO>, that is a good point! |
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Feb-14-23
| | waddayaplay: Actually they don't have good opening moves. If the player is lower rated , their moves will be bad. And even higher rates players play blitz different fr how they play standard games. If you ask me, I would get rid of low quality blitz games. They are completely uninteresting. |
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Feb-15-23
| | Williebob: <waddayaplay>, you can tell the quality of the games by the ratings of the players? Most impressive. Where's the line between "higher" and "lower", then? |
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Feb-15-23
 | | beatgiant: I looked at a few games here, and I think the truth is somewhere between. For example, here's https://chessgames.com/perl/chessga... between two of the top players in the event. It ends on move 30 after White sacs her queen for a back rank threat that doesn't work, and then immediately resigns. Clearly a blitz induced blunder. But one also finds a game like https://chessgames.com/perl/chessga..., which features what looks to me like some fairly intricate yet sound tactical complications in the early middlegame, followed by an exciting race in a tricky endgame. The mistakes here are not obvious to me at all. |
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Feb-15-23
| | Williebob: Thank you, <beatgiant>. Your observation is correct and to the point, i.e. let's look at the games before we complain about quality.
I had only looked at the first on the list, Lagno vs E Tomilova, 2019, which actually does appear in Opening Explorer as the only example of 11.. Nbd7 in that particular line of the Scandinavian (my first look at the mouth-watering-sounding "Gubinsky-Melts Defense").
I regret my last post, which was snarky. |
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Feb-15-23
 | | perfidious: Complaining of less than perfect play in blitz games, even at high levels, is something of a fool's errand. |
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Feb-15-23
 | | Messiah: <perfidious: Complaining of less than perfect play in blitz games, even at high levels, is something of a fool's errand.> OK now delete your account. |
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Feb-15-23
| | Williebob: What? <Messiah>, you still owe us the score of your attempt to beat none other than Lajos Portisch
with a Benoni. Perhaps you had not looked at his lifetime score with White against those ideas? Or noticed his seeming distaste for such an opening with Black?
<perf> is in the database, and deservedly so.
End snark. |
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Feb-15-23
| | Messiah: <Williebob: What? <Messiah>, you still owe us the score of your attempt to beat none other than Lajos Portisch with a Benoni. Perhaps you had not looked at his lifetime score with White against those ideas? Or noticed his seeming distaste for such an opening with Black?
<perf> is in the database, and deservedly so. End snark.>
I have never found the score. Once, by miracle, I find it, I will post it without hesitation. That was quite a beating I received! |
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Feb-15-23
| | Messiah: <<perf> is in the database, and deservedly so.> Who cares? |
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Feb-15-23
| | Williebob: My comment was germane to the topic at hand, and you had to come in here and mess the carpet. Bad Messiah! Bad boy! |
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Feb-15-23
| | perfidious: <Willebob>, the Benoni was a tough opening to play against the erudite Portisch; took a pair of big brass ones. <....<perf> is in the database, and deservedly so....> Hahahahaha!
Signed, life 1200 player |
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| Feb-15-23 | | stone free or die: <<Williebob> My comment was germane to the topic at hand, and you had to come in here and mess the carpet. Bad Messiah! Bad boy!> They don't call him <Messy> <Messiah> for nuthing! Oh well, we each have our own talents, that's his. |
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Feb-16-23
 | | fredthebear: They don't call you z troll for nothing either. |
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