Mayor's Chess Cup Round 5 - Chadaev, Rahman, Gomes in Joint Lead

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Hi everyone,

The Mumbai Mayor's Chess Cup has three joint leaders after five rounds - Nikolai Chadaev of Russia, Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh and John Paul Gomez of Philippines. (photo: Top Seed GM Aleksandrov from Belarus) All three have scored five wins and are followed by nine players just half a point behind. There are more than 300 players taking part in the event. 

Attila Czebe of Hungary was the only GM casualty, losing to local lad Rakesh Kulkarni, much to the delight of the watching audience. Untitled Atul Dahale defeated Hungarian IM Anita Gara. A total of 17 Grandmasters apart from 35 International Masters and Women Grandmasters from 11 countries are taking part in the event. The countries are India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, USA, Nepal, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Hungary, Russia, Kazakhstan. Philippines. GM Alexej Aleksandrov from Belarus (2606). 

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Nikolai Chadaev wins World Blitz Championship Qualifier

Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012

Hi everyone,

The 2012 World Blitz Championship qualifying tournament took place at the Russian State Social University (V.Pika st., 4) on Monday, February 6th.

The competition with 99 players consisted of 11 rounds of Swiss system, with time control 3 minutes per game with additional 2 seconds per every move, and FIDE rating calculation. The prize fund was 30 000 RUB.

GM Nikolai Chadaev took a clear first place with 9 points. Half a point behind were GM Papin Vasily RUS 2570, GM Rychagov Andrey RUS 2542, IM Bogdanovich Stanislav UKR 2513, GM Khusnutdinov Rustam KAZ 2492 and IM Shukh Nikolai RUS 2415 with 8.5 points each. Papin and Rychagov are 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Top three finishers are awarded by the RSSU Cup organizing committee with free air tickets and accommodation for the World Blitz Championship semifinal which will be played in Astana, Kazakhstan.

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