World Blitz Championship: closeup video footage 20.11.2009– Some watched it live in the GUM mall in Moscow. You probably followed the action
on Playchess, perhaps with webcam images
from the official site running as well (they had a strange two-minute lag to
the game moves). Now you have a chance to see highlights of the World Blitz
Championship close up in video with a JavaScript
replay board. A unique experience – you don't want to miss it!
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World
Blitz Championship – final pictorial report
This event was held on November 16, 17 and 18 in the showroom of the Red Square
mall GUM. Time controls were three minutes for the whole game + two seconds
increment per move. The event was a 22-player double round-robin, i.e. it had
a total of 42 rounds, which were played on three consecutive days. The participants
include the players from the Tal Memorial, plus twelve invitees. The average
rating was 2718 – quite remarkable for an evernt with so many players.
Videos of the Blitz games in Moscow
Posted on YouTube by Eugene Potemkin and Sergey Sorlkhtin
Below are six videos we have selected for you. As a special service you can
watch them together with the replayable games on our JavaScript board. Try it
out: start the video and click on the notation or the replay buttons to follow
the moves on the graphic chessboard. Note that you can pause the video at any
stage by pressing the Space bar on your computer keyboard. Pressing it again
will restart the video.
The games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the
chess server Playchess.com.
If you are not a member you can download the free PGN reader ChessBase
Light, which gives you immediate access. You can also use the program
to read, replay and analyse PGN games. New and enhanced: CB Light 2009!
World
Blitz Championship – final pictorial report
