Grischuk still the strongest blitz player in Moscow
Former blitz world champion Alexander Grischuk was the strongest on Sunday in the Moscow blitz championship, held in a park in the Russian capital. Alexander Morozevich shared second place with Sergey Karjakin who is now a Muscovite as well.
The 63rd Moscow Blitz Championships took place on Sunday, August 30th and was sponsored, as always, by the Moscow evening newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva. The men's contest was a 22-player round-robin with 5 minutes per player per game on the clock. The final standings were1. Grischuk 17 2-3. Morozevich, Karjakin 16½ 4-5. Kobalia, Malakhov 14 6-7. B.Savchenko, Jakovenko 13 8-9. Riazantsev, Amonatov 12½ 10. Dlugy 11½ 11. Korotylev 11 12-13. Najer, Zvjagintsev 10½ 14. Dragomaretsky 10 15. Grachev 9 16. Vlassov 8½ 17-18. Kalinichev, Kastanieda 6 19-21. Kosteniuk, Vorobiov, Mesropov 5 22. Vasiukov 4Unfortunately the games were not recorded but we have one small fragment:Vlassov-Morozevich Moscow blitz 2009 Game viewer by ChessTempo
This one and other fragments of his games were were posted at the ChessPro forum by IM Nikolai Vlassov.Thanks to Eldar Mukhametov, the editor of ChessMoscow whom I met in Nalchik this year, we can re-publish a few photos taken by Yana Melnikova:
Links
- More photos by Yana Melnikova here.
- Misha Savinov did a nice, pictorial report on the tournament.
- More photos, by Maria Fominykh, can be found here.
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