Blindfold – Round 1
Anand 1/2 Kramnik
Topalov 1-0 Leko
Mamedyarov 1/2 Morozevich
Gelfand 0-1 Karjakin
Aronian 1/2 Van Wely
Carlsen 0-1 Ivanchuk
Rapid – Round 1
Kramnik 0-1 Anand
Morozevich 1/2 Mamedyarov
Leko 1/2 Topalov
Karjakin 1/2 Gelfand
Van Wely 0-1 Aronian
Ivanchuk 1/2 Carlsen
Combined Standings
1. Anand, Viswanathan 1.5
Aronian, Levon
Ivanchuk, Vassily
Karjakin, Sergey
Topalov,Veselin
6. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 1.0
Morozevich, Alexander
8. Carlsen, Magnus 0.5
Gelfand, Boris
Kramnik, Vladimir
Leko, Peter
van Wely, Loek
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Huh. Well, the first round is hardly indicative of how the whole tournament will go.
Please explain how “blindfold” is played :
1. What do the players see ? Do they see their own moves or only opponetnts move ? Or do they have them in writting ?
2. Does it have same time limits as Rapid? So is it Blindfold cum Rapid? It, of course, does not have time limits of classical!
3. Why does FIDE not value or rank Rapid or Blindfold? Is that done by someone else ?
I think its played with them wearing blindfolds. They tell the moves to each other.