Tal Memorial Blitz 2009

Tal Memorial Blitz 2009, also known as World Blitz Championship 2009, is taking place in Moscow, Russia from 16th-18th of November 2009.

Participants:

-Players from Tal Memorial

Vladimir Kramnik
Vassily Ivanchuk
Magnus Carlsen
Levon Aronian
Viswanathan Anand
Boris Gelfand
Ruslan Ponomariov
Peter Svidler
Peter Leko
Alexander Morozevich

-Six players from Aeroflot Blitz 2009 ( for more go to http://karjakin.blogspot.com/2009/02/aeroflot-blitz-2009.html )

Sergey Karjakin
Vugar Gashimov
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Evgeny Bareev
Vladislav Tkachiev
Arkadij Naiditsch ( Zhou Jianchao could not participate )

-Six players invited by the organizer

Anatoly Karpov
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Alexandar Grischuk
Leinier Dominguez-Perez
Dmitry Jakovenko
Judit Polgar

Time control is 5'+2'' ( 5 minutes per game plus 2 second increament per each move )

Official site is http://www.russiachess.org/

Live coverage at - AeroflotChess, Russiachess and ChessBomb.

ECC 2009 7th Round

Fedorchuk Sergey - Karjakin Sergey, European Club Cup 2009, 7th Round.

Alkanoid Skopje

SPbChFed Sankt-Peterburg vs Tomsk-400

Husek Wien vs Ural Sverdrdlovskaya

ShSM-64 Moscow vs EVRY Grand Roque

OSG Baden-Baden vs Werder Bremen

7th Round results

«Economist-SGSEU-I Saratov» 3½ - 2½ «Ashdod Illit Chess Club»
«Mika Yerevan» 4 - 2 «Alkanoid Skopje»
«SPbChFed Sankt-Peterburg» 3 - 3 «Tomsk-400»
«Husek Wien» 2 - 4 «Ural Svedrdlovskaya»
«ShSM-64 Moscow» 4½ - 1½ «EVRY Grand Roque»

Final standings

Rk.	SNo	FED	Team	Games	+	=	-	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	1	RUS	Economist-SGSEU-1 Saratov	7	7	0	0	14	27,5	179,5
2	7	ARM	Mika Yerevan	7	6	0	1	12	24,5	195,5
3	2	RUS	Ural Svedrdlovskaya	7	5	1	1	11	28,5	161,5
4	8	RUS	SPbChFed Sankt-Peterburg	7	5	1	1	11	26,0	187,0
5	4	GER	OSG Baden-Baden	7	5	0	2	10	33,0	146,5
6	9	UKR	PVK - Kievchess	7	5	0	2	10	29,0	152,0
7	13	ISR	Beer Sheva Chess Club	7	5	0	2	10	29,0	150,0
8	3	RUS	ShSM-64 Moscow	7	5	0	2	10	29,0	142,0
9	6	RUS	Tomsk-400	7	4	2	1	10	28,0	163,0
10	5	ISR	Ashdod Illit Chess Club	7	5	0	2	10	27,0	171,0

Full list at http://www.chess-results.com/tnr25841.aspx?art=0&rd=7&lan=1&turdet=YES&flag=NO&m=-1&wi=1000

Photos from the closing ceremony:

I place - Economist-SGSEU-I Saratov

II place - Mika Yerevan

III place - Ural Svedrdlovskaya

All pictures are courtesy of official site http://www.ecc2009.com/

ECC 2009 6th Round

Karjakin Sergey - Wegerle Joerg, European Club Cup 2009, 6th Round.


6th Round results

«Alkaloid Skopje» 2½ - 3½ «Economist-SGSEU-I Saratov»
«Ural Svedrdlovskaya» 2½ - 3½ «Mika Yerevan»
«OSG Baden-Baden» 2½ - 3½ «SPbChFed Sankt-Peterburg»
«PVK - Kievchess» 1½ - 4½ «Ashdod Illit Chess Club»
«A DAN DZO & PGMB» 3 - 3 «Tomsk-400»
More results at http://www.chess-results.com/tnr25841.aspx?art=3&rd=6&lan=1&turdet=YES&flag=30&m=-1&wi=1000

Tiviakov Sergey

Ivanchuk Vassily

Sutovsky Emil

Shirov, Malakhov, Rublevsky and Dreev

All pictures are property of http://www.ecc2009.com/