Aronian receiving his World Blitz Championship trophy in Moscow
| 1 | GM | Aronian, Levon | ARM | 2801 | 24.5 | 20 | 433.50 |
| 2 | GM | Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | 2744 | 24.0 | 18 | 447.00 |
| 3 | GM | Carlsen, Magnus | NOR | 2802 | 23.5 | 19 | 431.75 |
| 4 | GM | Gelfand, Boris | ISR | 2741 | 21.5 | 17 | 398.75 |
| 5 | GM | Nakamura, Hikaru | USA | 2741 | 21.5 | 17 | 397.50 |
| 6 | GM | Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | 2760 | 20.5 | 15 | 396.00 |
| 7 | GM | Kramnik, Vladimir | RUS | 2791 | 20.5 | 16 | 384.50 |
| 8 | GM | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | 2763 | 19.5 | 17 | 362.25 |
| 9 | GM | Svidler, Peter | RUS | 2722 | 19.5 | 13 | 361.00 |
| 10 | GM | Eljanov, Pavel | UKR | 2742 | 19.0 | 16 | 345.00 |
| 11 | GM | Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | 2771 | 19.0 | 12 | 348.50 |
| 12 | GM | Mamedov, Rauf | AZE | 2660 | 18.0 | 14 | 333.75 |
| 13 | GM | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | 2720 | 18.0 | 13 | 326.25 |
| 14 | GM | Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | 2703 | 18.0 | 12 | 349.50 |
| 15 | GM | Movsesian, Sergei | SVK | 2721 | 17.5 | 16 | 315.25 |
| 16 | GM | Andreikin, Dmitry | RUS | 2683 | 17.5 | 13 | 314.25 |
| 17 | GM | Grachev, Boris | RUS | 2654 | 16.5 | 10 | 313.00 |
| 18 | GM | Savchenko, Boris | RUS | 2632 | 15.5 | 14 | 286.25 |
| 19 | GM | Caruana, Fabiano | ITA | 2709 | 13.5 | 11 | 249.25 |
| 20 | GM | Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | 2744 | 12.5 | 7 | 235.25 |
http://www.russiachess.org/online/blitz/cross_table_acc_places&38.html
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Interesting. From the cross table, if only the top 10 players were playing against each other, the scores are:
Karjakin: 13
Radjabov: 11
Carlsen: 10.5
Nakamura: 10
Kramnik: 8.5
Aronian: 8
Svidler: 8
Mamedyarov: 7.5
Eljanov: 7
Gelfand: 6.5
i.e., Aronian is more devastating to the tail, whereas Karjakin and Radjabov are fairly devastating to the top of the group.
What about top 9/8/7/6/5????
Aronian is the only player without a double loss against any player!! What about that?
Congratulations to Aronian!
Did anyone saw the crush of Nakamura over Grischuk? Less words and grimaces and more training, he is not as good as he thinks he is!! Although he has improved a lot in classical against the elite!
The man from Armenia or Azerbaijan have good chances of winning the candidates next year.
I’m surprised that no one has mentioned Mamedov. He lost his first 10 games – can you imagine how discouraged he must have been? Yet, in the rest of the tournament he tied with Nakamura for the best result. Now that is something!
Congratulations to Aronian. Mamedov made an incredible comeback. I felt sorry for him in the early stages.
GM Mamedov, Rauf had a amazing tourney.
He starts 0-8, thats right loses eight games in a row and then the caffeine kicks in and blitzes the field.
I want whatever drugs he took after the first 8 games
Ravana, don’t understand what you are saying. If you look at the top 9 or 8, or 7 or 6, the same observation holds — Karjakin is way ahead of Aronian.
Of course, the fact that Aronian didn’t have 0-2 against anyone is a point well taken.
Carlsen, Radjabov, Karjakin are an interesting young trio.
Aronian will soon be World Chess Champion as well. With or without Carlsen.
Aronian will soon be World Chess Champion as well. With or without Carlsen.
To Anon ‘Aronian will soon be World Chess Champion as well,with or without Carlsen’
and why not!. He is capable and likeable. Anand vs Aronian will be a close call and most interesting as well. Aronian being younger will have an edge of course. Carlsen had a chance to become the youngest World Chess Champ ever ? but funked out,not being too sure of himself.