Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Blitz Chess Championship: Carlsen loses title, Grischuk new world champion – ABC Online

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Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk from Russia is the new world champion in speed chess. Superstar Magnus Carlsen lost the Triple Crown of disciplines chess, rapid chess and blitz it. The Norwegian is only sixth.

world chess champion Magnus Carlsen has the Triple Crown lost. At the conclusion of the Rapid World Championship in Berlin had the Norwegian top favorite satisfied after an unexpected slump in sixth place in the blitz tournament.

New world champion in the variant with three minutes’ thinking was on Wednesday evening, the Russian grandmaster Alexander Grischuk. He succeeds by Carlsen to, who had repeated his World Cup victory in rapid chess

Carlsen:. 14.0 points only go to sixth place

The 31-year-old Grischuk, a specialist in lightning, won with 15.5 points out of 21 games. For him it was the third World Cup win after 2006 and 2012 Design. Silver and bronze went to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) and to the earlier Classical World Champion Vladimir Kramnik (Russia). Both had two days each 15.0 points on the board.

Carlsen flashed for a solid first day at the end in the Bolle-rooms extremely fickle. Four defeats threw the champion in classical chess in the meantime far back. Finally ranged 14.0 meter only to sixth place.

grandmaster Georg Meier (Trier) ended up as the best German participant with 11.5 points to rank 68th

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