FIDE World Blitz Championship 2010 Internet Tournament
Tournament Mode	Software Needed	Rules
Entry Fee And Prizes	Cheating Control	The Staff
1st preliminary - result	2nd preliminary - result	3rd preliminary - result
4th preliminary - result	5th preliminary - result	6th preliminary - result
Final - result

http://www.chessbase.de/2010/FIDE WM/prelimluckys.htm

Lucky Winners of 1 month Premium Membership

On January, 30th, at 16.00 CET (servertime) the final of the Internet Qualifier for 2010 Blitz Worldchampionship started. From the 58 players who won a place in the final 49 took their chance and participate. A long and hard run over 17 rounds with 3+2 was waiting for them.

Despite the highstakes the atmosphere in the chat and in the tournament room was friendly. The players were fair, they neither do abuse their words nor their time. Even lag problems were a rare occurrence.

The most surprising player in the first rounds were the german FM Roland Voigt (aka Hausigel), who lost in the first round, but used the next seven rounds to win against anyone who crossed his way and taking the top after eight rounds. To be exactly his good result was not all that surprising. His serverrating before the tournament was a little bit below 3000 and therefore he was one of the top seeds. However, most probably he lacked some stamina, as he castled queenside in rounds nine to eleven, never recovering from this shock and finally finished on place 31.

The top seeded player in this event, GM Hrair Simonian (aka omnislash) had a somewhat shaky start and draw six and winning two in the first eight rounds. Maybe he was thinking too much on girls, his great passion, as he confirmed in his personal information. Anyway, despite the fact he produced the greatest number of draws, he was a tough nut to crack. He lost his first game in round 15, when he was unable to withstand the machine-gun like play of Nark164 (aka Emin Asadov), who moved with an average speed of little bit more than 2 seconds per move. In the end this speed was not enough for a place in moscow, as narik164 was just 5th in the end.

During the most part of the event players from the former sowjet union were dominating the event. Even the fourth player, GM Jaan Ehlveest from the USA (aka Metsamees) was educated in his early years in the soviet chess school. A real threat to the former Soviet Union was build up by players from China and New Zealand. For China GM Yu Yangyi (aka Yangyi) made a nice finsh, just to stumble in the penultimate round and finished place 8. With a few rounds to go GM Gawain Jones (aka VerdeNotte) had etablished himself in the top and among the first three. However, another queenside castling took place here in rounds 14 to 16. In the end, GM Dimitry Kokarev from Russia was the most successful player and took clear first with 12,5 points. The second place was shared between GM Hrair Simonian and GM Anton Kovaljov (ARG), aka Kovaljo Anton. The top three players will compete in Moscow for a place in the final of the 2010 Blitz World Championship.

All players in the final, who finished the event, won at least a one year premium membership on playchess.com.

Martin Fischer
-Tournament Director-

Invitation

FIDE, Playchess.com and Aeroflot  invites you to participate in 2010 World Blitz Championship and offer you a chance to test your skill in Blitz Chess with the very best.

18th February 2010, Moscow, will be the day when six places for the World Blitz Championship 2010 (held after the Tal Memorial in November 2010) are on stake. In a nine double-round swiss tournament the six players will be decided in Moscow.
 

You have the chance to win a package, including travel costs and accommodation in Moscow for two days. Take part in our Internet Tournament, being held from the 19th January 2010 until 30th January 2010 on the server playchess.com.
 

Learn more about all the details here on the tournament website.

We hope you will find our homepage useful, participate in the event and have fun on the server.