- Closing in on the World Blitz title

Round 29

[11.0]	Mamedov, Rauf	1 – 0	Carlsen, Magnus	[17.0]
[18.5]	Aronian, Levon	0.5 – 0.5	Grachev, Boris	[12.0]
[15.5]	Gelfand, Boris	0.5 – 0.5	Andreikin, Dmitry	[11.0]
[12.5]	Movsesian, Sergei	1 – 0	Savchenko, Boris	[13.0]
[11.5]	Ponomariov, Ruslan	0 – 1	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	[16.0]
[14.0]	Grischuk, Alexander	0.5 – 0.5	Nakamura, Hikaru	[15.5]
[14.0]	Eljanov, Pavel	1 – 0	Kramnik, Vladimir	[16.0]
[14.0]	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	1 – 0	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	[14.0]
[16.0]	Radjabov, Teimour	1 – 0	Caruana, Fabiano	[12.0]
[13.0]	Svidler, Peter	0 – 1	Karjakin, Sergey	[13.5]

Round 30

[17.0]	Carlsen, Magnus	1 – 0	Svidler, Peter	[13.0]
[14.5]	Karjakin, Sergey	0.5 – 0.5	Radjabov, Teimour	[17.0]
[12.0]	Caruana, Fabiano	0 – 1	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	[15.0]
[14.0]	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	1 – 0	Eljanov, Pavel	[15.0]
[16.0]	Kramnik, Vladimir	0 – 1	Grischuk, Alexander	[14.5]
[16.0]	Nakamura, Hikaru	1 – 0	Ponomariov, Ruslan	[11.5]
[17.0]	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	0 – 1	Movsesian, Sergei	[13.5]
[13.0]	Savchenko, Boris	0 – 1	Gelfand, Boris	[16.0]
[11.5]	Andreikin, Dmitry	0 – 1	Aronian, Levon	[19.0]
[12.5]	Grachev, Boris	0.5 – 0.5	Mamedov, Rauf	[12.0]

Round 31

[13.0]	Grachev, Boris	0 – 1	Carlsen, Magnus	[18.0]
[12.5]	Mamedov, Rauf	0 – 1	Andreikin, Dmitry	[11.5]
[20.0]	Aronian, Levon	1 – 0	Savchenko, Boris	[13.0]
[17.0]	Gelfand, Boris	1 – 0	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	[17.0]
[14.5]	Movsesian, Sergei	0 – 1	Nakamura, Hikaru	[17.0]
[11.5]	Ponomariov, Ruslan	0.5 – 0.5	Kramnik, Vladimir	[16.0]
[15.5]	Grischuk, Alexander	0.5 – 0.5	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	[15.0]
[15.0]	Eljanov, Pavel	1 – 0	Caruana, Fabiano	[12.0]
[16.0]	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	0 – 1	Karjakin, Sergey	[15.0]
[17.5]	Radjabov, Teimour	0.5 – 0.5	Svidler, Peter	[13.0]

Round 32

[19.0]	Carlsen, Magnus	0 – 1	Radjabov, Teimour	[18.0]
[13.5]	Svidler, Peter	1 – 0	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	[16.0]
[16.0]	Karjakin, Sergey	0.5 – 0.5	Eljanov, Pavel	[16.0]
[12.0]	Caruana, Fabiano	0.5 – 0.5	Grischuk, Alexander	[16.0]
[15.5]	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	1 – 0	Ponomariov, Ruslan	[12.0]
[16.5]	Kramnik, Vladimir	1 – 0	Movsesian, Sergei	[14.5]
[18.0]	Nakamura, Hikaru	0 – 1	Gelfand, Boris	[18.0]
[17.0]	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	0 – 1	Aronian, Levon	[21.0]
[13.0]	Savchenko, Boris	0 – 1	Mamedov, Rauf	[12.5]
[12.5]	Andreikin, Dmitry	1 – 0	Grachev, Boris	[13.0]

Round 33

[13.5]	Andreikin, Dmitry	0 – 1	Carlsen, Magnus	[19.0]
[13.0]	Grachev, Boris	0.5 – 0.5	Savchenko, Boris	[13.0]
[13.5]	Mamedov, Rauf	1 – 0	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	[17.0]
[22.0]	Aronian, Levon	1 – 0	Nakamura, Hikaru	[18.0]
[19.0]	Gelfand, Boris	0.5 – 0.5	Kramnik, Vladimir	[17.5]
[14.5]	Movsesian, Sergei	1 – 0	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	[16.5]
[12.0]	Ponomariov, Ruslan	0.5 – 0.5	Caruana, Fabiano	[12.5]
[16.5]	Grischuk, Alexander	1 – 0	Karjakin, Sergey	[16.5]
[16.5]	Eljanov, Pavel	0.5 – 0.5	Svidler, Peter	[14.5]
[16.0]	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	0 – 1	Radjabov, Teimour	[19.0]

Unless there is a total collapse by Aronian, it looks like he will be the next World Blitz Champion. He is holding a comfortable 3 point lead over Carlsen and Radjabov with just 5 rounds to go. Nakamura is mathematically eliminated after his loss against Aronian.

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Closing in on the World Blitz title

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