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Final round top board results:
1 13 AZE Radjabov Teimour 9½ ½ – ½ 10½ Carlsen Magnus NOR 4
2 9 IND Anand Viswanathan 10 ½ – ½ 10 Levon Aronian ARM 7
3 8 RUS Karjakin Sergey 10 0 – 1 9½ Alexander Morozevich RUS 15
4 18 VIE Le Quang Liem 9 0 – 1 9½ Caruana Fabiano ITA 2
5 3 RUS Alexander Grischuk 9 1 – 0 9 Eljanov Pavel UKR 19
6 28 ARM Movsesian Sergei 9 0 – 1 9 Svidler Peter RUS 6
7 20 CHN Hao Wang 9 0 – 1 9 Tomashevsky Evgeny RUS 31
8 23 ESP Vallejo Pons Francisco 8½ 0 – 1 9 Etienne Bacrot FRA 32
9 25 AZE Mamedov Rauf 8½ 1 – 0 8½ Yudin Sergei RUS 68
10 45 CHN Yangyi Yu 8½ 1 – 0 8½ Meier Georg GER 41
http://dubai2014wrb.com/en/result/rapid
Top finishers:
Rank Country Full Name Fide Rating Points
1 NOR Carlsen Magnus 2881 11.0
2 ITA Caruana Fabiano 2791 10.5
3 IND Anand Viswanathan 2785 10.5
4 ARM Levon Aronian 2815 10.5
5 RUS Alexander Morozevich 2731 10.5
6 RUS Tomashevsky Evgeny 2695 10.0
7 RUS Karjakin Sergey 2771 10.0
8 RUS Alexander Grischuk 2792 10.0
9 AZE Radjabov Teimour 2724 10.0
10 RUS Svidler Peter 2753 10.0
11 FRA Etienne Bacrot 2720 10.0
12 CHN Yangyi Yu 2675 9.5
13 AZE Mamedov Rauf 2659 9.5
14 GEO Jobava Baadur 2713 9.0
15 VIE Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 2621 9.0
16 VEN Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo 2653 9.0
17 ARM Movsesian Sergei 2672 9.0
18 AZE Guseinov Gadir 2613 9.0
19 VIE Le Quang Liem 2712 9.0
20 UKR Efimenko Zahar 2648 9.0
21 CHN Hao Wang 2729 9.0
22 UKR Eljanov Pavel 2723 9.0
23 RUS Antipov Mikhail Al. 2502 9.0
24 RUS Nepomniachtchi Ian 2730 8.5
25 FRA Laurent Fressinet 2717 8.5
26 RUS Yudin Sergei 2546 8.5
27 ESP Salgado Lopez Ivan 2622 8.5
28 RUS Riazantsev Alexander 2692 8.5
29 USA Hikaru Nakamura 2775 8.5
30 POL Bartel Mateusz 2641 8.5
31 GER Arkadij Naiditsch 2705 8.5
32 GER Meier Georg 2632 8.5
33 ESP Vallejo Pons Francisco 2698 8.5
34 RUS Matlakov Maxim 2689 8.5
35 UKR Moiseenko Alexander 2707 8.5
36 RUS Nikita Vitiugov 2742 8.5
37 RUS Fedoseev Vladimir 2662 8.5
38 BLR Zhigalko Sergei 2678 8.5
39 BUL Ivan Cheparinov 2682 8.5
Congratulations to Magnus for winning the chess triple crown. He won the World Blitz title a few years ago. He is now the 1st man, and 2nd person overall, to achieve this very difficult feat. I held all three titles at the same time in 1996 after I won my Women’s World Classical Championship.
Carlsen got lucky once again courtesy of GM Nakamura. Naka, the best player in the world, was gang up by this cowards players. He could have won this tourney 14-0 if the players didn’t conspired against him.
Susan,
He hasn’t won the Blitz event (yet?) so why “triple” crown? Wouldn’t “double” be more appropriate at the time being?
Cheers,
Amaury (from France)
Congrats to ‘old-man’ Anand for remaining undefeated and for administering Carlsen’s only defeat!! Bravo!!
Not yet big sister, not just yet
Magnus already won the world blitz championship a few years ago.
Time for Nakamura to change career. He can’t make money in this league. With abundance of young prodigies, my advice to him is open up a Japanese Restaurant and be A chef and he could be a millionaire in a period of two years. He has spent too much time playing chess without success, so the right thing to do is quit chess and explore a new career where he could be successful.
Forget Nakamura, he did terrible. Anand impressed by beating Carlsen, going undefeated and ending up 1/2 point behind! I think we will have a better match this November.
Anand also was the rapid champion and blitz champion during different times. So Magnus is not the first guy.
Ok, m’y bad!
Anand’s blitz victory was not an officially sanctioned event by FIDE, according to what I was told. It was a very strong event, but privately organized. This is the info I received.
Anand’s blitz victory was not an officially sanctioned event by FIDE, according to what I was told. It was a very strong event, but privately organized. This is the info I received.
Anand’s blitz victory was not an officially sanctioned event by FIDE, according to what I was told. It was a very strong event, but privately organized. This is the info I received.
Congrats Magnus
ITS OFFICIAL, Nakamura SUCKS even on the World Rapid Championship and he lose his # 1 ranking. It only shows that even on rapid play, Nakamura’s perceived chess stronghold, he has also loses his edge and his chess level skills is deteriorating at an alarming downhill slope. His level of chess plat is not the same anymore. Nakamura is OFFICIALLY on a DECLINE and will soon faded from glory. THE END of Nakamura in chess. He will surely be miss and will forever be part of history as a player who during his peak years never won a world standard championsip title… because of Carlsen and others 🙂
Nowadays I read the comments section of this website too, only to see the funny comments about Nakamura.
To be accurate, Susan, I think you should say “career triple crown”. Just like in tennis and golf, they don’t say you’ve won the grand slam if the titles are not in the same year.
In any case, it’s just a matter of days and Magnus will truly be a triple crown winner.
GM Nakamura did won both the 2014 World Rapid & Blitz Chanpionship…. just not on this dimension but on a PARALLEL UNIVERSE where Magnus Carlsen is not a chess player but the President of FIDE. lol
GM H. Nakamura, 2014 SMURF World Rapid & Blitz Champion. Sanctioned by the SMURF Chess under its President Papa Smurf 🙂