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The 2nd Grand Slam Chess Final was held in Bilbao, Spain 6-12 September 2009. The tournament used the Sofia Chess Rules, which forbids agreed draws before 30 moves, and the "Bilbao" scoring system of 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss (though for ratings purposes the traditional scoring method is used). (1) Crosstable: 01 02 03 04
1 Aronian ** 01 1½ 11 4½ 13
2 Grischuk 10 ** 0½ 1½ 3 8
3 Karjakin 0½ 1½ ** ½½ 3 7
4 Shirov 00 0½ ½½ ** 1½ 3
Previous edition: Grand Slam Chess Final (2008). Next: Grand Slam Chess Final (2010).(1) Wikipedia article: Bilbao Chess Masters Final
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| Sep-12-09 | | The Rocket: kramnik is not retired... in fact he wants to get the titel back |
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| Sep-12-09 | | Aspirador: Kramnik has rented a nice little room in a Paris retirement home. I think that says it all.... :) |
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| Sep-12-09 | | virginmind: bravo aronian. |
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| Sep-12-09 | | percyblakeney: The last round doesn't mean much, but the games look interesting this far. |
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| Sep-12-09 | | frogbert: pb, maybe it doesn't mean much for the tournament, but i think aronian's self confidence gets another boost if he would win the 5th game in a row compared to taking a loss in the last round. i don't know what aronian's competition in the forthcoming candidates event should hope for, though. :o) |
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| Sep-12-09 | | waustad: There is a bit of a breeze around Aronians's king, but I don't see a way to exploit it. What matters is whether Karjakin does. At least Aronian sticks to his usual style. No quick GM draw with a canned line in the Ruy exchange. Throw some stuff at the opponent's king and see what sticks. |
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| Sep-12-09 | | percyblakeney: Well, at least Aronian seems to have overcome his fear of losing :-) |
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| Sep-12-09 | | Slaven MNE: IS there any place where I can see a full list of participants for World Cup? P.S. Bravo Aronian! |
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| Sep-12-09 | | percyblakeney: Karjakin is in time trouble but it doesn't look like a position he should risk to lose. |
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| Sep-12-09 | | waustad: Grishuk in time trouble, what a surprise. |
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| Sep-12-09 | | siamesedream: Blitz time.
It stops raining in NYC.
Go Levon! Go Rafa! |
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| Sep-12-09 | | Octal: Shirov has just gotten demolished by everyone. He just seems to do worse and worse... |
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 | | Peligroso Patzer: <percyblakeney: Karjakin is in time trouble <but it doesn't look like a position he should risk to lose>.> ... in that respect being a lot like the position Shirov had against Aronion yesterday ... |
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| Sep-12-09 | | Hovik2009: Shirov has a good position and probably he will be able to convert that to a win. |
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| Sep-12-09 | | Hovik2009: it is time for Aronian's king to move his majesty to the battlefield! |
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| Sep-12-09 | | TheGadge: Karjakin looks like he's thrown it away, and Grischuk might just squeeze out a draw.. |
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| Sep-12-09 | | TheGadge: ...maybe not. Aronian missed Nd4 |
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| Sep-12-09 | | waustad: Aronian took the draw. |
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| Sep-12-09 | | TheGadge: Don't know if 33.Nd4 was actually winning, but cerainly worth a try. |
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| Sep-12-09 | | Hovik2009: <Aronian took the draw.> How dare he doing that! |
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| Sep-12-09 | | waustad: Grishuk made time control. He started the tournament well keeping his clock demons under control but has reverted to the get behind and blitz at the end style. It has cost him, though there is no guarantee that if he took less time earlier he would be in similar positions near time control. |
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| Sep-12-09 | | Hovik2009: in this last game Grischuk was real lucky, Shirov made three or four bad moves before time control, and now with same color bishops present the game looks drawish. |
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| Sep-12-09 | | frogbert: yeah, shirov donated 11,2 rating points to aronian, 2 rating points to karjakin, and 0,8 points to grischuk. generous and very little self-serving. i'd really wish he'd done a little better. in fact, he's the only top player born the same year i am, so there's one more reason to cheer for him. ;o) |
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| Sep-12-09 | | WhiteRook48: shirov has a bad tournament |
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| Sep-12-09 | | Billy Vaughan: Judging by your site's data, wouldn't Shirov have donated 8,9 to Aronian, 5 to Grischuk, and just 0,1 to Karjakin? Or am I reading it wrong? |
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