World Rapid & Blitz Championships

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Re: World Rapid & Blitz Championships

Post by Roger de Coverly » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:02 pm

LawrenceCooper wrote: Adams, Short, Howell etc were at the Isle of Man. It was possible to hop from that to this but perhaps they wanted some rest ahead of other commitments.
Nigel is in Gozo playing the tournament that Adam Raoof is involved with, which intends to be a revival of the BBC's Master Game series.
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Re: World Rapid & Blitz Championships

Post by LawrenceCooper » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:18 pm

Another excellent win for Gawain, this time against Dreev.
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Re: World Rapid & Blitz Championships

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:19 pm

Gawain won. Carlsen drew, as did MVL.

Now we get the Jones-Carlsen pairing? :)
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Re: World Rapid & Blitz Championships

Post by JustinHorton » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:33 pm

Neither Chess24 nor Chessdom has any apparent interest in showing me round 17 or the pairings
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Re: World Rapid & Blitz Championships

Post by Tim Harding » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:36 pm

JustinHorton wrote:Neither Chess24 nor Chessdom has any apparent interest in showing me round 17 or the pairings
I'm told that Chess24 has the same software the arbiters use and should get the pairings first. So maybe there is a delay due to a protest or something... The worldchess.com site was running a video item about a silver chess set just now.

Pairings just up: Carlsen v Jones!
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Re: World Rapid & Blitz Championships

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:36 pm

Well, it is Carlsen-Jones. I got the pairing right, but not the colours. :shock:

I am not going to attempt to predict the result...

Pairings here:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr190790. ... =30&wi=984
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Re: World Rapid & Blitz Championships

Post by LawrenceCooper » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:37 pm

1 GM Carlsen, M. (10½) 2914 — — GM Jones, G. C. (10½) 2690
2 GM Vachier-Lagr. (12½) 2854 — — GM Svidler, P. (11) 2726
3 GM Karjakin, S. (12) 2759 — — GM Kramnik, V. (11) 2763
4 GM Vovk, Yuri (11) 2566 — — GM Aronian, L. (11½) 2817
5 GM Melkumyan, H. (11) 2701 — — GM Grischuk, A. (11) 2814
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Re: World Rapid & Blitz Championships

Post by Barry Sandercock » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:47 pm

Carlsen won against Jones. He trapped the knight at the end.
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Re: World Rapid & Blitz Championships

Post by Tim Harding » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:48 pm

Wins for Carlsen, MVL, Kramnik, Vovk, Grischuk, Tomashevsky...

Gelfand drew.
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Re: World Rapid & Blitz Championships

Post by LawrenceCooper » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:49 pm

Tim Harding wrote:Wins for Carlsen, MVL, Kramnik, Vovk, Grischuk, Tomashevsky...
MVL now has a 1.5 lead following Karjakin's loss.
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Re: World Rapid & Blitz Championships

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:52 pm

1.5-point lead with 4 rounds to go is MVL's to lose now. The rest are fighting for second, surely.

MVL is 0.4 points behind Magnus in the live rating list.
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Re: World Rapid & Blitz Championships

Post by Barry Sandercock » Wed Oct 14, 2015 4:10 pm

With 4 rounds to go, Magnus could still win it.
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Re: World Rapid & Blitz Championships

Post by LawrenceCooper » Wed Oct 14, 2015 4:14 pm

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:1.5-point lead with 4 rounds to go is MVL's to lose now. The rest are fighting for second, surely.
Famous last words, MVL has just lost with white against Vovk. Gawain won against Petrosian, one of the pace setters yesterday.
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Re: World Rapid & Blitz Championships

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Wed Oct 14, 2015 4:14 pm

Ooh, MVL stumbles. Carlsen trashes Gelfand. All still up in the air.

Gawain beat Petrosian, which is another really good result.

Kramnik, Grischuk and Vovk lurking half a point behind.

Grischuk on a run of 5.5/6.
Vovk on 5/6. Kramnik on 5/6.

Vovk, Kramnik and MVL have only lost twice in 18 rounds.
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Re: World Rapid & Blitz Championships

Post by LawrenceCooper » Wed Oct 14, 2015 4:17 pm

1 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 13½/18
2 Vovk, Yuri 13/18
3 Kramnik, Vladimir 13/18
4 Grischuk, Alexander 13/18
5 Carlsen, Magnus 12½
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