The World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship 2012 will take place 1-10 July in Astana, Kazakhstan. A total of 16 prominent Grandmasters will participate for the prize fund of 400 000 USD.
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World Rapid Chess Championship
For the games in the World Rapid Chess Championship each player will have 15 minutes + 10 seconds additional time per move, starting from move 1. The Final Tournament will be played in three days as a single round-robin event, 5 rounds per day (or 15 rounds in three days). Here are the participants in the final.
01. Magnus Carlsen 2835
02. Teimour Radjabov 2784
03. Sergey Karjakin 2779
04. Alexander Morozevich 2769
05. Vassily Ivanchuk 2764
06. Alexander Grischuk 2761
07. Veselin Topalov 2752
08. Peter Svidler 2741
09. Boris Gelfand 2727
10. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2726
11. Kazhgaleyev, Murtas 2595
12. Ismagambetov, Anuar 2478
The final tournament consists of 16 players. Three other players will qualify for the respective Blitz or Rapid Finals from the Semi Finals to be held between the 1st and 4th July 2012. One nominee of the FIDE President is also expexted.
Tiebreak priorities for 1st place:
a) Results between the players involved;
b) Number of wins;
c) Sonneborn-Berger score;
d) Sudden death game 5’-4’.
World Blitz Chess Championship
The tournament final consists of 16 players. The time control for the World Blitz Chess Championship for each player will be 3 minutes + 2 seconds additional time per move, starting from move 1. The Final Tournament will be played in two days as a double roundrobin event, 15 rounds per day (or 30 rounds in two days). The Semi-Final Tournament shall be played in one day as a Swiss tournament, 11 double rounds black and white, altogether – 22 games. This makes a total of 52 blitz games for each of the players that qualify from the semi finals.
01. Magnus Carlsen 2835
02. Teimour Radjabov 2784
03. Sergey Karjakin 2779
04. Alexander Morozevich 2769
05. Vassily Ivanchuk 2764
06. Alexander Grischuk 2761
07. Veselin Topalov 2752
08. Peter Svidler 2741
09. Boris Gelfand 2727
10. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2726
11. Jumabayev, Rinat 2556
12. Kotsur, Pavel 2548
The final 4 players are determined in the same way as in the World Rapid, the tiebreak rules are also the same.
They’re afraid to invite Nakamura. They’re all afraid of him.
No Aronian , no Nakamura ,no Anand…
Enough said.
Why are not the best invited??? the is strange…..I mean..they even ivited Gelfand for heavens sake.
Perhaps Carlen should just skip this walk in the park….Nobody there is any threat…I just don’t understand why all the best are not playing and Carlsen is actually showing up. Something screwey going on there.
This should not even be called a World Blitz championships–it is not well represented! Wesley So the Asian champion and Aeroflot qualifier is not invited…Nakamura or Dominguez from Americas should also be there. All invited are from Europe and Kazakhstan only…it really hurts to be a fan these days…
Aronian is the reigning blitz champion. Anand is still exceptional in blitz & rapid. And no Kramnik, Nakamura … This is not the World blitz – this is the Kazakh Open Blitz.