After winning the super Tal Memorial by a full point, Ivanchuk made a surge today to win the super Tal Memorial Blitz by a full point over Kramnik! Ivanchuk is also the reigning World Blitz Champion. He won it ahead of Anand last year.

Perhaps we should all start to speak to our pawn before each game 🙂

Here are the final standings:

1. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2781 23.5

2. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2788 22.5

3. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2775 21.0

4. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2738 20.0
5. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2742 20.0

6. Lékó, Peter g HUN 2741 18.0
7. Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2728 18.0
8. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2727 18.0

9. Kamsky, Gata g USA 2723 17.5
10. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2720 17.5

11. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2718 17.0

12. Grachev, Boris g RUS 2640 14.5

13. Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2708 14.0
14. Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2651 14.0
15. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2788 14.0

16. Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2723 12.5
17. Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2716 12.5

18. Tkachiev, Vladislav g FRA 2664 11.5

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