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Dortmund Blitz Exhibition

26 June 2007 13:22 PM CET | Last modified: 15:10 | By Peter Doggers  | Filed under: Reports | Tags: ,

So while no round was scheduled for yesterday, the players weren’t resting at all. As has become traditional, I think, all participants of the Chess Meeting played blitz games against amateurs, in the Dortmund town hall. The super grandmasters had two minutes on the clock and the local artists had five minutes thinking time to spend. ChessVibes was there filming it all, and presents the first video today. Soon we will publish some longer fragments of games by Kramnik, Anand, Leko and Carlsen.


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11 Responses to “Dortmund Blitz Exhibition”

  1. mynameis on 26 June 2007 16:41 PM

    LOL @ the little blode kid playing Magnus. he clearly had no clue what he was doing. It looked like Gefland lost a game at the end of the video!

    Apparently Magnus won all of his games.

  2. peter on 26 June 2007 16:53 PM

    Actually Gelfand got away with a draw there. His opponent offered a draw which he had to accept.

  3. Rodolfo Huaman on 26 June 2007 17:14 PM

    Very good the videos. But want you move too tha camera?.
    Forward friends!!.

    From Cusco-Peru.

  4. Christos (Greece) on 26 June 2007 20:03 PM

    Excellent work once again!

  5. Garrick Thode on 26 June 2007 21:04 PM

    Die schaakborden zien er heel mooi uit.
    Zijn ze van hout??

  6. Jan v. Merkatz on 26 June 2007 21:13 PM

    Hello Peter,

    I am visiting chessvibes for a long time now. I wonder wether we could have some e-mail contact? I am from Germany btw :).

    If you like to, just write me a mail.

    Thanks and nice video :)

  7. peter on 26 June 2007 21:17 PM

    Hi Jan, did you notice this one?

  8. Charles Milton Ling on 26 June 2007 21:32 PM

    Kudos to the GMs! I am sure it was a memorable experience for their partners.
    And thank you for the video!

  9. Tyche on 26 June 2007 23:55 PM

    Are you the N-N playing blitz against Anand?

  10. Pal G. on 27 June 2007 4:37 AM

    How come the officials were taking the clocks after the match. Perhaps participants agreed to buy the clock, then after the game it was signed by the grandmaster played?

    If that is not at all what was taking place, they should do that next time. I would gladly pay $50-$100 to play, then have my clock signed after I lost. (And if I lived in Europe).

    Thank you for the videos. That single video had me smiling bigger than hundreds of YouTube brain drain vids..

    Regards,
    Pal

  11. peter on 27 June 2007 14:33 PM

    They’re not officials taking the clocks, they’re arbiters stopping them, because the flag has fallen.

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