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Ivanchuk Leads In World Blitz At Moscow
By Arvind Aaron
Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, the fastest rising player in the world top in
the last few months, took a half point lead in the World Blitz
Championship at Moscow with a 13.5/19 in a 20-player double all-play-all
at Moscow on Nov 21-22. On Nov 22, the same players will face each other
with reversed colours with Anand v Ivanchuk slated for the final round
number 38. So, 19 rounds remain to be played.
Defending champion Alexander Grischuk is in second place with 13 points.
Anand won eight games and lost four while drawing the rest of the seven
games for a 11.5/19 finish in day one of the two day contest at Moscow.
Anand is in fifth place and can reduce the deficit in the second day.
Anand scored over Morozevich, Carlsen, Mamedyarov, Adams, Gelfand,
Savchenko, Korotylev and Karpov. Anand lost to Grischuk, Kamsky, Leko and
Kramnik and drew the rest of the players.
Ivanchuk, also 1969-born like Anand, scored over key opponents who
finished in the top like Grischuk, Kamsky, Kramnik and lost three games to
Mamedyarov, Gelfand and Bacrot who finished in the bottom.
Standings after round 19 (half-way mark): 1 V.Ivanchuk (Ukr) 13.5/19, 2
A.Grischuk (Rus) 13, 3 G.Kamsky (USA) 12.5, 4 P.Leko (Hun) 12, 5 V.Anand (Ind)
11.5, 6 V.Kramnik (Rus) 10.5, 7 A.Morozevich (Rus) 10.5, 8 S.Rublevsky (Rus)
10.5, 9 S.Mamedyarov (Aze) 10, 10 M.Carlsen (Nor) 9.5, 11 M.Adams (Eng) 9,
12 B.Gelfand (Isr) 9, 13 A.Shirov (Esp) 8.5, 14 R.Kasimdzhanov (Uzb) 8.5,
15 B.Savchenko (Rus) 8, 16 R.Ponomariov (Ukr) 7.5, 17 E.Bacrot (Fra) 7.5,
18 A.Korotylev (Rus) 6.5, 19 A.Dreev (Rus) 6.5, 20 A.Karpov (Rus) 5.5.
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Published: 22ndNovember, 2007
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