Final crosstable – TWIC
| IV World Blitz Almaty KAZ (KAZ), 8-8 xi 2008 | cat. XIX (2702) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 1. | Dominguez Perez, Leinier | g | CUB | 2719 | * | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 11.5 | 2911 | |||||
| 2. | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2786 | ½ | * | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11.0 | 2871 | |||||
| 3. | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2727 | ½ | ½ | * | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 10.0 | 2825 | |||||
| 4. | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2719 | 0 | 0 | ½ | * | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10.0 | 2825 | |||||
| 5. | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2731 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | * | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9.5 | 2794 | |||||
| 6. | Radjabov, Teimour | g | AZE | 2751 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | * | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9.5 | 2793 | |||||
| 7. | Kazhgaleyev, Murtas | g | KAZ | 2640 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | * | 1 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 8.0 | 2726 | |||||
| 8. | Morozevich, Alexander | g | RUS | 2787 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | * | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7.5 | 2696 | |||||
| 9. | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2729 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | * | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | 2679 | |||||
| 10. | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2719 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | * | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | 2679 | |||||
| 11. | Tkachiev, Vladislav | g | FRA | 2664 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | * | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | 6.5 | 2654 | |||||
| 12. | Rublevsky, Sergei | g | RUS | 2702 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | * | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | 2651 | |||||
| 13. | Vaganian, Rafael A | g | ARM | 2590 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | * | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5.5 | 2614 | |||||
| 14. | Amin, Bassem | g | EGY | 2560 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | * | 0 | 1 | 4.5 | 2562 | |||||
| 15. | Sasikiran, Krishnan | g | IND | 2694 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | * | ½ | 3.5 | 2491 | |||||
| 16. | Polgar, Judit | g | HUN | 2711 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | * | 2.5 | 2428 | |||||
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I really don’t understand this game, is this game correct ? :
[Event “World Blitz 2008”]
[Site “Almaty”]
[Date “”]
[Round “WB 2008 Round 15”]
[White “Polgar, Judit (HUN)”]
[Black “Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR)”]
[Result “0-1”]
[Board “7”]
[Input “DGT5497”]
[Owner “Kemerovo”]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. f4 Qc7 7. Qf3 g6 8. Bd3
Bg7 9. Be3 O-O 10. h3 b5 11. g4 Bb7 12. g5 Nfd7 13. h4 Nc6 14. Nde2 Nb4 15. h5
Qc5 16. Qh3 Bxc3+ 17. bxc3 Nxd3+ 18. cxd3 0-1
The mistake is in 7th round
in this page
http://worldblitz2008.kz/pgn/7/dgt_chesstheatre.htm
there is Kamsky Ivanchuk 0-1
but in this page
http://worldblitz2008.kz/tournament_calendar/
there is Kamsky – Ivanchuk 1-0
Megalovic
Now TWIC:
IV World Blitz Championship won by Dominguez
Megalovic
The controversy was related to the game Kamsky-Ivanchuk, played in round 7… The official site informs 0-1 in the game section, but it seems that actually Kamsky was the winner (1-0), and so Domínguez is the new blitz world champion!
TWIC informs that the pgn of the referred game is incomplete.
‘I really don’t understand this game, is this game correct ?’
You really seriously trust any information posted on the Internet???
There are probably all kinds of viruses which attack email boxes and textual blogs which can change words, paragraphs and even images.
There are probably all kinds of viruses which attack email boxes and textual blogs which can change words, paragraphs and even images.
o_O
Maybe they attack your brain too.
Dominguez is the 4th World Blitz Chess Champion
He joins the elite band of just Anand,Grischuk and Ivanchuk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz_Chess
First FIDE World Blitz Champion was the Great Michael Tal in 1988;
Rafael Vaganyan was the runner-up (it was the reason that he was invited in this year tournament).
Anand tournament in 2000 was not FIDE World Blitz Championship.
So:
1. Tal
2. Grishuk
3. Ivanchuk
4. Dominguez
Nakamura should have played in this World Blitz Championship.
Should have, could have, would have,…
Worlds best Blitz player? – Bobby Fischer!!! He won an unofficial Blitz tournament ahead of the great Tal!