Bilbao Chess Masters Final: Carlsen Wins on Tiebreak; Vallejo Announces Retirement
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World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen has taken the Bilbao Chess Masters Final trophy by beating Fabiano Caruana in two straight games of the tiebreak. This is the second time Carlsen has won the tournament. He was the defending champion.
Meanwhile, Spanish GM Francisco Valleko has announced his
retirement “indefinitely”, claiming fatigue and disappointed by his
performance in the tournament.
Final standings:
• Magnus Carlsen: 17 points (champion)
• Fabiano Caruana: 17 points.
• Levon Aronian: 11 points.
• Sergei Karjakin: 10 points
• Viswanathan Anand: 9 points.
• Francisco Vallejo: 6 points.
The final round saw three draws: Vallejo and Caruana, Aronian and Carlsen and Anand-Karjakin.
Either of Carlsen or Caruana would have won the title without the tiebreak if any one of them had won the Round 10 match! But, that was not to be. Like last year, the tournament went into the tiebreak. Though, last there had been four players vying for the tiebreak win.
Before leaving chess, Vallejo, from Mallorca will fullfil the professional liabilities to which he has already committed. “In order
to play chess you must have hope, and I have lost it.” he said. “I have been 20 years out of my hometown, since I was 10, and it is time to go back and rest. I don´t want to say that I will not play more, because other champions have retired
and then they have come back some years after with excellent results. However, I need a break from chess and to start over some other vital projects. After that, we will see.”
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Bilbao Chess Masters R8: All Games Drawn; Caruana, Carlsen Hold on to Lead
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Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruna continue to lead jointly after eight rounds at the Bilbao Chess Masters Finals. The games Viswanathan Anand-Fabiano Caruana, Vallejo Pons-Levon Aronian and Sergey Karjakin-Magnus Carlsen were drawn on Wednesday.
Standings after Round 8
Fabiano Caruana: 13 points.
Magnus Carlsen: 13 points.
Levon Aronian: 10 points.
Viswanathan Anand: 8 points.
Sergey Karjakin: 6 points
Francisco Vallejo: 5 points.
The winner would have to now fight down to the last round. Both Carlsen and Caruana have chances, but statistics could fetch the title for Aronian as well. Anand has, so far, created a record of sorts, by drawing all his eight games so far.
Caruana did well to hold back Anand and Carlsen drew with Karjakin fairly quickly. There were some fireworks in the Vallejo-Aronian game, but it went for a draw even as time scramble ensued.
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Bilbao Chess Masters: Carlsen Beats Vallejo, Joins Caruana in Lead
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World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen beat Vallejo Pons to join Fabiano Caruana in the least after Round 7 in Bilbao Spain on Tuesday. Eventually, it was time trouble that proved the Spanish Grandmaster's undoing. The others drew their matches. Wednesday is a rest day.
Results 7th round
Carlsen - Vallejo 3-0
Caruana - Karjakin 1-1
Aronian - Anand 1-1
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Bilbao Chess Masters: Carlsen Begins with Win over Caruana; Others Draw
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
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The second leg of the Sao Paulo-Bilbao Chess Masters Final has begun in Spain. The even had started in Sao Paulo with Fabiano Caruana beating Magnus Carlsen. Carlsen began the Bilbao half of the chess tournament with a win over Caruana.
The event is scored according to the 3-1-0 pattern.
Day 6 results:
- Carlsen – Caruana 3-0 (duration: 4h 2m, 66 plays)
- Vallejo – Anand 1-1 (duration: 2h 25 m, 39 plays)
- Karjakin – Aronian 1-1 (duration: 1h15m, 35 plays)
Standings after six rounds
Fabiano Caruana: 11 points.
Magnus Carlsen: 9 points.
Levon Aronian: 8 points.
Viswanathan Anand: 6 points.
Francisco Vallejo: 4 points.
Sergei Karjakin: 4 points
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Bilbao Chess Masters Final Begins Today!
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012Hi everyone,
The Bilbao presentation of the Chess Masters Final.
Top-level chess excitement is back as the second half of the Sao Paulo-Bilbao Chess Masters Final resumes today in Spain. The first leg, held between September 24 and 29 was hosted in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. After this first half, the Italian Fabiano Caruana arrives to Bilbao as a leader, with 11 points.
The games will be played in the Central Atrium of the Alhondiga Bilbao in a dramatic soundproofed glass box with view to the public. This glass room measures 8x8m witdth, with a high of 3'5m and weighs 8 tons.
The mayor of Bilbao, Iñaki Azkuna, the world chess champion, Viswanathan Anand, and Leontxo Garcia, the prestigious chess commentator, have presented the second and final half of the Masters Chess Final, which will be held in Bilbao between October 8 and 13 in the Alhondiga.
After the first leg, Fabiano Caruana had 11 points, 4 points more than Aronian, the No. 2 in the world ranking and 5 points more than Carlsen, No. 1 in the world ranking. In the middle of the table we can find the world champion Anand with 5 points, and the standing is closed by the Spanish Vallejo and Karjakin (fifth in the world ranking), both with 3 points, and in the basis, without excessive chances to overcome this results.
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Sao Paulo Chess Masters R2: Karjakin Loses to Caruana, Vallejo Loses to Carlsen, Anand-Aronian Draw
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
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Italian-American Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana beat Russia's Sergey Karjakin in the second round to take lead at the Sao Paulo Chess Masters Grand Slam final. Vallejo Pons lost to Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand drew with Levon Aronian.
Click on each of the links above to view the games in Chess King.
After the surprising victory obtained yesterday by Fabiano Caruana over number 1 in the world rankings, Magnus Carlsen, the Italian-American continued his winning streak on Day 2 of the 5th Chess Masters Final after beating Sergey Karjakin, thereby placing himself at the top of the provisional leaderboard in the first round of the tournament being played in Sao Paulo. Caruana's lead has been favoured by a draw between Olympic champion, Armenia's Aronian, the only one who can catch up to him after his victory on the first day and India's Viswanathan Anand.
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Special Chess Match in Leon in June - Topalov versus Vallejo Pons
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
Hi everyone,
Veselin Topalov and Francisco Vallejo Pons will play a friendly match as part of the tournament Leon 2012. It will be a six game encounter, with blitz games and Armageddon if needed. The time control is 45 mins + 15 sec per move semi rapid. The playing days are 8th, 9th, and 10th of June and games will be live with computer analysis at Chessdom.
Just recently we saw another classical mini-practice match between Aronian and Kramnik in Zurich. With the World Chess Championship cycle based on matches and mini matches, such practice games become more and more fashionable.
Topalov – Vallejo rules
1). The matches will take place in Leon from 08 to 10 June 2012 (both inclusive) with the following schedule:
Day 08 June 2012 Topalov – Vallejo 1st and 2nd Games.
Day 09 June 2012 Topalov – Vallejo 3rd and 4th Games.
Day 10 June 2012 Topalov – Vallejo 5th and 6th Games.
Drawings lots will be place on 07 June at 20,00 hours.
2). Two games per day will be played with the following schedule:
1st at 16,30 hours.
2nd at 18,40 hours.
There will be 10 minutes break among the games. Each player will have 45 minutes+15 secons/move for the whole game.
3). In a match of a draw it will be decided by a match. The match will consist of two games with a time-control 5 minutes per player + 3 seconds for every move played. In case of another tied result – there will be played a last “sudden-death” decisive game with a time-control 6 minutes for the whole game for the White-player and 5 minutes for the whole game for Black-player. The White-player will only need a victory in this game to win the tournament, whole the Black-player will win the tournament by just not losing that final decisive game.
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