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11-17-2010 , 10:28 AM

smilingbill

2011 2+2 Chess Champion

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,458

Exciting with Aronian leading atm with 14/21 and several players with 13. Going back to live transmission in a couple of minutes I think.

results: http://www.russiachess.org/online/blitz/index.html
current round live transmission: http://www.russiachess.org/online/index.htm
all games + current round: http://www.chessdom.com/news-2010/wo...hess-2010-live
live video: http://video.russiachess.org/

also chessbase had some good quality game footage on their website.

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11-18-2010 , 07:43 PM

Hackdeath

adept

Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 848

Final standings are quite interesting, normally the player who wins in a 20+ player field takes points off his nearest competitors, but Aronian came first with 24.5/38 taking only 6/16 off places 2-9. Compare that to V-Lagrave who got an impressive 6.5/10 off places 2-6 but only came 14th, and Karjakin who absolutely crushed places 1-5, 7-9 with 12.5/16 but only ended up 6th. Blitz chess is high variance, but its nice to see it played in live tourneys now with mega strong fields.

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