Ivanchuk keeps Torre title
23 December 2007 16:06 PM
After he had won the prestigious blitz tournament in Moscow last month, Vassily Ivanchuk also prolonged his title with blitz games at the Torre Memorial in Mexico. Because that’s what the knockoutfase consisted of: blitz games – something we hadn’t figured out yet from the tournament website. Ivanchuk beat the Indian Harikrishna 3-1 in the final.
The time control in the tiebreak was 10 minutes plus 5 seconds per move increment for the first two games, and in case of a 1-1 score real blitz with 5 minutes plus 1 second increment per move was played.
As reported before, Ivanchuk started the tournament beating Bruzon 1½-½. In the quarterfinals he eliminated Almeida with the same figures but then he needed his blitz skills to conquer Graf, who had kept him on 1-1 in the sem-final rapids. Harikrishna had reached the final beating Hernandez, Meier and Nogueiras.
It was pretty hard to find the basic tournament set-up and the results, and we couldn’t find the games in PGN on the official website. (What else is there, we can hear you thinking – actually quite a lot!) Here are the final two blitz games, manually copied:
The final
Hello
In fact the FIDE definition of Blitz games is that it is *less* than 15 minutes per player (no increment) or *less* than 15 minutes for the game when adding base time (10 minutes) with 60 times the increment 60*5 = 5 minutes as in this case sums up to 15 minutes, so Rapid rules are in effect. Also I have made a PGN file with the games of the tournament which you can receive if you respond. Since I don’t have a website dedicated to myself, only to my timezone program, I give you that URL, but it is pretty unrelated with chess material I admit.
Regards,
- Jesper Nørgaard Welen (FIDE ELO 2434).
Try out http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/Torre2007.pgn for an unofficial collection of the games from the Carlos Torre tournament in Mérida and Chichén Itza (161 games).
- Jesper Nørgaard Welen