Friday, February 19, 2010

GMs So and Laylo banner RP flag in World Blitz Championship prelim

GM Wesley So and GM Darwin Laylo displayed their chess blitz skills in the World Blitz Championship-Preliminaries held in Moscow, Russia right after the conclusion of Aeroflot Open 2010 and finished 62nd and 114th in a 156-player field.

GM So scored 9.5 points and while GM Darwin piled up 7.5 points out of possible 18.0 points. GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2730) topped the event with 13.5 points and qualified for the World Blitz Championship to be held in Moscow in November 2010. "It will consist of 20 players (10 participants of Mikhail Tal Memorial 2010, 6 winners of the Qualification Tournament of Feb.18, 2010 and four to six wild cards named by the Organizers)."

Laylo, who suffered the probably worst performance in his chess professional chess career in the Aeroflot Open redeemed himself by splitting the round against world-class GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2741), the tournament's top seed, in Round 1.

Here are the individual performances of So and Laylo in the blitz competition:

GM So's performance round by round:

Rnd

Color

Score

Chg

No

Code

Title

Name

FIDE

Sex

Fed.

Born

1W2.01.30103617822GMSebag, Marie2510F.FRA1986- -
2B2.01.3968634654GMFeller, Sebastien2579M.FRA1991- -
3W1.00.47448603537GMZhou, Jianchao2632M.CHN1988- -
4B1.00.45482806851GMRodshtein, Maxim2622M.ISR1989- -
5W1.50.731234166728FMNakhapetiane, Pogos2449M.RUS1989- -
6B0.5-0.01294100107GMDreev, Alexey2650M.RUS1969- -
7W0.0-0.58584132394GMBelov, Vladimir2595M.RUS1984- -
8B0.5-0.09604138716GMBocharov, Dmitry2594M.RUS1982- -
9W1.00.416512500739GMGhaem Maghami, Ehsan2589M.IRI1982- -


GM Laylo's performance round by round:

Rnd

Color

Score

Chg

No

Code

Title

Name

FIDE

Sex

Fed.

Born

1B1.00.74113401319GMMamedyarov, Shakhriyar2741M.AZE1985- -
2W0.0-0.275623539GMVachier-Lagrave, Maxime2730M.FRA1990- -
3B0.5-0.131182806126IMGerzhoy, Leonid2459M.CAN1987- -
4W2.01.36119927368IMBoskovic, Drasko2454M.SRB1982- -
5B1.50.95984153251GMPanarin, Mikhail2518M.RUS1983- -
6W1.00.6994121830GMMotylev, Alexander2697M.RUS1979- -
7B0.0-0.36212905540GMCheparinov, Ivan2660M.BUL1986- -
8W0.5-0.1211614114330IMPavlov, Sergey2470M.UKR1987- -
9B1.00.321354103963
Kanter, Eduard2419M.RUS - -

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