Archive for Blitz
Monday, July 20, 2009 14:45
This early morning we received an email from David Llada, one of the organizers of the Donostia (San Sebastián) Chess Festival who made those great pictures there and who... also tried out his video camera, as it turned out. The two blitz games between Nakamura and Ponomariov were recorded and so you can watch both tiebreak games on video (and...
Monday, June 08, 2009 17:49
In a tense and balanced final on Sunday Magnus Carlsen won the Leon rapid knockout by beating Vassily Ivanchuk 4-3. After four rapid games and two blitz games the score was still even, and drawing White for the Armageddon game Carlsen had to win, and he did. Photos and video added.
ChessVibes brings on-the-spot coverage of the XXII Magistral de...
Sunday, June 07, 2009 4:55
Tomorrow the grande finale of the Le??n rapid tournament will be played between Magnus Carlsen and Vassily Ivanchuk. Today Carlsen defeated Wang Yue 3.5-2.5, deciding the match in the second blitz game. Full report; video added.
ChessVibes brings on-the-spot coverage of the XXII Magistral de Ajedrez Ciudad de Le??n. The rapid knockout takes place...
Sunday, March 15, 2009 21:40
Now in its tenth consecutive year, the annual "Ciudad de Dos Hermanas" 2009, the biggest and best online blitz tournament is set to be hosted March 13th to 21st yet again on the Internet Chess Club. You can play one of the qualifiers till and including Wednesday.
The cash prize fund amounts to EUR 7,600 (about $9,600), with Euro 2,000 (roughly $...
Friday, February 27, 2009 23:14
French GM Etienne Bacrot has won the 2009 Aeroflot Open in Moscow. He finished on on 6.5/9 alongside Alexander Moiseenko but the Frenchman took first place because he played more games with the black pieces than Moiseenko. Corus winner Sergey Karjakin took first prize at the World Blitz Championship Preliminaries.
The 8th International Chess...
Sunday, November 02, 2008 22:00
OK, American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura is a strong blitz player, we knew that. But what about rapid chess? And what about opponents like Karpov and Ivanchuk? Well, he just beat them both, the former world champion in the semi-final and the Ukrainian in the final, and so Nakamura became the convincing winner of the 2008 Troph?ɬ©e CCAS in Cap d'...
Saturday, October 11, 2008 18:29
The gold medal for reigning world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk, which she won in the blitz event at the World Mind Sports Games in Beijing, was not a big surprise. But what about Ukrainian GM Martyn Kravtsiv winning the men's blitz, or Ecuador winning the blitz for pairs?
Photo: Dimitri Reinderman
The first World Mind Sports Games is held in...
Friday, October 03, 2008 20:30
A whole new and huge event starts today, and chess is involved: the World Mind Sports Games. After the Summer Olympics athletes and the Paralympics sportsmen now approximately 3,000 Bridge, Chess, Go, Draughts, and Xiangqi players from over 150 countries have travelled to Beijing.
The first World Mind Sports Games is held in Beijing, China from...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 21:50
[lang_nl]Opnieuw moest een 'Armageddon'-partij de beslissing brengen in een Amerikaans toernooi, maar het publiek en winnaar Evgeny Najer zullen er niet om geklaagd hebben. De Rus won zondag de World Open in Philadelphia.[/lang_nl][lang_en]Again, an "Armageddon" game had to decide a major event in the United States, but the spectators and winner...
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 18:20
[lang_nl]Duitslands sterkste grootmeester Daniel Fridman is ook geen slechte snelschaker lightningspeler. Vorige week won hij het Open NK Lightning, waarvan veel spectaculaire video's werden opgenomen.[/lang_nl]
[lang_en]Germany's strongest grandmaster Daniel Fridman is not a bad blitz lightning player either. Last week he won the Open Dutch...
