World Blitz Chess 2010
participants and information
The World Blitz Chess Championship will take place in Moscow, 16th – 18th November, 2010.
The participants include eight players from Tal Memorial 2010 – GM Levon Aronian (ARM) 2783, GM Vladimir Kramnik (RUS) 2780, GM Pavel Eljanov (URK) 2761, GM Alexander Grischuk (RUS) 2760, GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE) 2756, Boris Gelfand (ISR) 2751, GM Sergey Karjakin (RUS) 2747, and GM Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 2733.
They will be joined by 3 invited players – GM Magnus Carlsen (NOR) 2826, GM Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR) 2749, and GM Peter Svidler (RUS) 2731, as well as the six section winners GM Maxime Vachier Lagrave (FRA) 2721, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (RUS) 2706, GM Bu Xiangzhi (CNH) 2695, GM Boris Grachev (RUS) 2668, GM Rauf Mamedov (AZE) 2660, and GM Boris Savchenko (RUS) 2627.
3 more participants are to be announced in the following days.
World Blitz Chess Championship 2010 preview / Official site / Live with analysis
Oh, it’s the Ango-dutch always with me, just because I don’t know the English theory, so I play 1. c4 e6, or 1. c4 f5, I am undecided (as an amateur I am unsure if there is a difference). With this I give something for white, allow him to play d4. Anyway, I prefer the dutch without knowing other theory. Yet otherwise I would consider 1. c4 harmless, it seems to do nothing against what I would endeavour as black.
1. b4 I think much more problematic, I don’t know how to conduct the game. On 1. Nc3, not a clue. On 1. f4 I am desperate. Of course this is because while as black I am Dutch-French, as while I am Vienna-King’s Gambit-closed sicilian-still reading some of those books. Yet I feel some things are neglected, and I can’t see what I play in top games.
I think it can’t be that bad, but as Kasparov said in his predecessors, the top defines the môde(sp) for the lower ranks. I think there’s much uncovered in the ECO’s A, B and C.
I am of course an amateur, with pretensions of strategic vision.
Perhaps to continue, I may have taken the early Chessmaster recommendations too much to heart, which we that if you were to learn something you must enmesh yourself in it. Well, my style always has had my king at potential peril, and I am not afraid of it, (though I would love to work the Damiano gambit back into the repertoire), somehow it works.
Yet I think the top grandmasters repeat known theory too much, when there are other alternatives for gladiators, which matches might give wider theory.
Ok, I have never played the Damiano gambit in my life (So perhaps someone should); i gather I thought of the Albin counter gambit. 😉
Yet there’s so much out there to play, though I still have to master the move orders of the Bc4 Vienna (and understand them….).
Finally! Naka is in the mix! FIDE should have had him there a ling time ago! Good luck Naka!