Aronian Wins FiNet Chess960 Rapid World Championship
Exciting match at Chess Classic
Report by Johannes Fischer
16.08.2007 – Today, Anand and Aronian played a four game match at the Chess Classic for the title of FiNet Chess960 Rapid World Champion, which finished only minutes before midnight. The rapid match was drawn after four exciting games and thus a two match blitz-tiebreak had to be played. Here Aronian had the better of it and won the blitz match 1.5:0.5 to become Chess960 World Champion. The match for third place between Etienne Bacrot was dominated by Bacrot who won 3:1. Games and report will follow…
Here is the official website.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Aronian will be the next world champion, real world champion, not the fake 960 one.
Hmm, I dont know why but chess variants just dont interest me. Not that Chess 960 is not a useful variation to sharpen skills and bring out true chess as opposed to memorized openings. I just feel that the game (standard variation) is just too beautiful to tamper with. Anyway, those are my two cents. Interesting about Aronian though. Wonder who’ll shine after the big boys’ Aronian or Carlsen?
I still root for my idol, Vishy Anand!
if you consider aronians and anands experience playing 960, vishy was the nu-boy. getting beat by aronian by a mere half point after 6 games is a terrific result i think.
In my view, Aronian just got lucky…
beating vishy by a mere half point…tsamba maybe
to Aronian, u d man! Congrats!
There is a technical problem on this blog recently: The pictures are not visible.
The pic URLs starting with http://localhost… are wrong.
Only the web designer who is connected with this local host, can see the pic. The rest of the world doesn’t see the pic because “localhost” is something private and not accessible for the public. You need to upload the pic to a place accessible for the public, and enter an URL for it which makes the pic appear for all internet users worldwide…
Thanks! 🙂 The technology is complicated, sometimes.
I feel Anand did a very good job, considering that this was his first serious 960 tourney.
Congrats to Aronian, he is WChp material.
Yet, Anand rocks!