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World Blitz Championship (Women) Tournament

Kateryna Lagno13/17(+10 -1 =6)[games]
Anna Muzychuk12.5/17(+9 -1 =7)[games]
Zhongyi Tan12/17(+9 -2 =6)[games]
Valentina Gunina12/17(+12 -5 =0)[games]
Alexandra Kosteniuk11.5/17(+9 -3 =5)[games]
Tingjie Lei11.5/17(+9 -3 =5)[games]
Meri Arabidze11.5/17(+8 -2 =7)[games]
Antoaneta Stefanova11.5/17(+10 -4 =3)[games]
Sarasadat Khademalsharieh11.5/17(+10 -4 =3)[games]
Anastasia Bodnaruk11/17(+8 -3 =6)[games]
Gulnar Mammadova11/17(+9 -4 =4)[games]
Humpy Koneru10.5/17(+8 -4 =5)[games]
Batkhuyag Munguntuul10.5/17(+9 -5 =3)[games]
Elisabeth Paehtz10.5/17(+7 -3 =7)[games]
Zhansaya Abdumalik10.5/17(+8 -4 =5)[games]
Alisa Galliamova10.5/17(+8 -4 =5)[games]
Dinara Saduakassova10.5/17(+9 -5 =3)[games]
Natalia Zhukova10.5/17(+9 -5 =3)[games]
Irina Krush10.5/17(+7 -3 =7)[games]
Lilit Mkrtchian10.5/17(+9 -5 =3)[games]
Anna Ushenina10.5/17(+9 -5 =3)[games]
Nataliya Buksa10.5/17(+9 -5 =3)[games]
Anna Zatonskih10.5/17(+9 -5 =3)[games]
Nana Dzagnidze10/17(+10 -7 =0)[games]
Harika Dronavalli10/17(+7 -4 =6)[games]
Monika Socko10/17(+8 -5 =4)[games]
Ulviyya Fataliyeva10/17(+9 -6 =2)[games]
Nino Batsiashvili10/17(+8 -5 =4)[games]
Polina Shuvalova10/17(+9 -6 =2)[games]
Ekaterina Atalik10/17(+8 -5 =4)[games]
Galina Strutinskaia10/17(+9 -6 =2)[games]
Daria Charochkina9.5/17(+8 -6 =3)[games]
* (122 players total; 90 players not shown. Click here for longer list.)

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

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)

 page 1 of 42; games 1-25 of 1,034  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Lagno vs E Tomilova  1-0572019World Blitz Championship (Women)B01 Scandinavian
2. B Kovanova vs T Lei  0-1292019World Blitz Championship (Women)A07 King's Indian Attack
3. Kosteniuk vs E Solozhenkina 1-0352019World Blitz Championship (Women)A45 Queen's Pawn Game
4. D Charochkina vs A Muzychuk  ½-½532019World Blitz Championship (Women)C01 French, Exchange
5. Koneru vs E Atalik  1-0432019World Blitz Championship (Women)D30 Queen's Gambit Declined
6. D Belenkaya vs Z Tan  0-1602019World Blitz Championship (Women)B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
7. S Khademalsharieh vs A Paramzina  0-1352019World Blitz Championship (Women)E60 King's Indian Defense
8. S Gvetadze vs K Kulon  1-0552019World Blitz Championship (Women)A07 King's Indian Attack
9. A Stefanova vs A Muetsch  1-0352019World Blitz Championship (Women)A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
10. M Hejazipour vs H Dronavalli  1-0542019World Blitz Championship (Women)D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
11. N Dzagnidze vs M Lysenko  1-0462019World Blitz Championship (Women)A28 English
12. O Badelka vs A Ushenina  0-1432019World Blitz Championship (Women)A13 English
13. Z Abdumalik vs A Bivol  0-1332019World Blitz Championship (Women)C18 French, Winawer
14. I Agrest vs A Galliamova  0-1452019World Blitz Championship (Women)C60 Ruy Lopez
15. I Gaponenko vs N Khomeriki  0-1632019World Blitz Championship (Women)C45 Scotch Game
16. O Lelekova vs M Arabidze  0-1322019World Blitz Championship (Women)C77 Ruy Lopez
17. D Saduakassova vs O Karavaeva  1-0312019World Blitz Championship (Women)D30 Queen's Gambit Declined
18. A Balaian vs P Cramling  0-1442019World Blitz Championship (Women)B32 Sicilian
19. A M Sargsyan vs E Ovod  1-0322019World Blitz Championship (Women)D41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch
20. E F Nilssen vs E Paehtz  0-1392019World Blitz Championship (Women)A10 English
21. A Bodnaruk vs A Styazhkina  1-0392019World Blitz Championship (Women)C78 Ruy Lopez
22. S R Sgircea vs A Zatonskih  1-0302019World Blitz Championship (Women)A06 Reti Opening
23. I Krush vs A U Enkhtuul  ½-½672019World Blitz Championship (Women)B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
24. M Manakova vs V Gunina  0-1252019World Blitz Championship (Women)B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
25. N Buksa vs E Goltseva  0-1342019World Blitz Championship (Women)C77 Ruy Lopez
 page 1 of 42; games 1-25 of 1,034  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Feb-13-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  waddayaplay: 1000 blitz games , many of low quality, that fills the database...
Feb-13-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Williebob: Well, waddayapropose instead?
Feb-13-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  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.
Feb-13-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Williebob: Thank you, <CiO>, that is a good point!
Feb-14-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  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.

Feb-15-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  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?
Feb-15-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  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.

Feb-15-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  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.

Feb-15-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: Complaining of less than perfect play in blitz games, even at high levels, is something of a fool's errand.
Feb-15-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  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.

Feb-15-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  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.
Feb-15-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  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!

Feb-15-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  Messiah: <<perf> is in the database, and deservedly so.>

Who cares?

Feb-15-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  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!
Feb-15-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  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

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.

Feb-16-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  fredthebear: They don't call you z troll for nothing either.

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