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Cuban Domà - nguez to Defend his Blitz Chess World Title
HAVANA, Cuba, sep 25 (acn) Cuban GM Leinier Dominguez was confirmed to
defend his title at the Blitz Chess World Championship, scheduled for
November 16-18 in Moscow, Russia.
Cuban News Agency
Dominguez, who won the event last year undefeated, was included in the
list published by the website chessdom.com, along 19 other GMS that
will participate in the tournament.
Like in 2008, the list includes Indian Viswanathan Anand, current
Chess World Champion, Armenian Levon Aronian, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen
and 2007 champ Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk.
Other renowned elite players attending the championship will be
Russians Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Svidler, Alexander Morozevich and
Alexander Grischuk, this last 2006 winner; Hungarian Peter Leko,
Israeli Boris Gelfand, former world champion Ruslam Ponomariov and the
women's world leader Russian Alexandra Kosteniuk.
The organizers invited 1975-1985 world champion Russian Anatoli
Karpov, and Azerbaijan's Vugar Gashimov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
qualified at the Aeroflot tournament along Russian Evgeny Bareev,
Ukrainian Sergey Karjakin, French Vladislav Tkachiev and Chinese Zhou
Jianchao.
The world championship will have the same format tan last year with
5-minute-long matches, with no time bonus after every move and using
the round-robin system in a two-day event.
A year ago, Dominguez achieved 8 wins and seven draws to accumulate
11.5 points, half more than Ivanchuk and a whole point ahead of
Svidler, in the event held at Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Cuban Domà - nguez to Defend his Blitz Chess World Title
HAVANA, Cuba, sep 25 (acn) Cuban GM Leinier Dominguez was confirmed to
defend his title at the Blitz Chess World Championship, scheduled for
November 16-18 in Moscow, Russia.
Cuban News Agency
Dominguez, who won the event last year undefeated, was included in the
list published by the website chessdom.com, along 19 other GMS that
will participate in the tournament.
Like in 2008, the list includes Indian Viswanathan Anand, current
Chess World Champion, Armenian Levon Aronian, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen
and 2007 champ Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk.
Other renowned elite players attending the championship will be
Russians Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Svidler, Alexander Morozevich and
Alexander Grischuk, this last 2006 winner; Hungarian Peter Leko,
Israeli Boris Gelfand, former world champion Ruslam Ponomariov and the
women's world leader Russian Alexandra Kosteniuk.
The organizers invited 1975-1985 world champion Russian Anatoli
Karpov, and Azerbaijan's Vugar Gashimov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
qualified at the Aeroflot tournament along Russian Evgeny Bareev,
Ukrainian Sergey Karjakin, French Vladislav Tkachiev and Chinese Zhou
Jianchao.
The world championship will have the same format tan last year with
5-minute-long matches, with no time bonus after every move and using
the round-robin system in a two-day event.
A year ago, Dominguez achieved 8 wins and seven draws to accumulate
11.5 points, half more than Ivanchuk and a whole point ahead of
Svidler, in the event held at Almaty, Kazakhstan.