Day 2 of the womens blitz event, saw the reigning World Champion, Hou Yifan break away from the field of competitors.
Day 2 of the mens blitz tournament, was a very dramatic day, where the lead constantly kept changing.
Full report of the day is available at the official website
Valentina Gunina from Russia and Levon Aronian from Armenia are leading the Blitz tournament after Day 1.
Cross-tables Men
Cross-tables Women
Official website
Rapid Results
Wang Yue and Valentina Gunina became the winners of the rapid tournament SportAccord Mind Games in Beijing.
Rapid results - WOMEN
Rapid results - MEN
SportAccord Mind Games started today in Beijing, China.
Day 1 of Rapid
At the end of day 1 of the rapid chess competitions, we have two clear leaders in the Men and Women events.
In men section, Peter Leko from Hungary has got 3.5 out of 4 by winning Vachier-Lagrave from France, Le Quang Liem from Vitnam and Sergey Karjakin from Russia in round 4. This game is quite decisive for today's final standing, after making few blunders in the middle game Karjakin was defending very well, but after almost 100 moves he eventually had to resign. Thanks to wins in first three rounds Karjakin is now on the second place.
With 100% score we find GM Valentina Gunina (current Women World Blitz Champion) from Russia who has managed to dispose of two former World Champions, Alexandra Kosteniuk also from Russia and Antoaneta Stefanova from Bulgaria. The latter is also the current Women World Rapid Champion. The field is tremendously strong and tomorrow we will see a power house match between the current Women World Champion and prodigy Hou Yifan.
Results after Round 4 MEN
Results after Round 4 WOMEN
Schedule
| December 12th | 14:00-19:00 | Rapid Event: 1-4 rounds (men), 1-4 rounds (women) | |
| December 13th | 14:00-19:00 | Rapid Event: 5-7 rounds (men), 5-7 rounds (women) | |
| December 14th | 14:00-19:00 | Blitz Event: 1-10 rounds (men), 1-10 rounds (women) | |
| December 15th | 14:00-19:00 | Blitz Event: 11-20 rounds (men), 11-20 rounds (women) | |
| December 16th | 14:00-19:00 | Blitz Event: 21-30 rounds (men), 21-30 rounds (women) | |
| December 17th | 14:00-19:00 | Basque System: 1-3 rounds (men), 1-3 rounds (women) | |
| December 18th | 11:00-16:00 | Basque System: 4-5 rounds (men), 4-5 rounds (women) & Closing Ceremony | |
| December 19th | Departure |
Players
| MEN | WOMEN | |||||||||
| Karjakin, Sergey | RUS | Koneru, Humpy | IND | |||||||
| Grischuk, Alexander | RUS | Hou, Yifan | CHN | |||||||
| Aronian, Levon | ARM | Muzychuk, Anna | SLO | |||||||
| Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | AZE | Dzagnidze, Nana | GEO | |||||||
| Dominguez Perez, Leinier | CUB | Lagno, Kateryna | UKR | |||||||
| Ponomariov, Ruslan | UKR | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | RUS | |||||||
| Radjabov, Teimour | AZE | Gunina, Valentina | RUS | |||||||
| Le, Quang Liem | VIE | Stefanova, Antoaneta | BUL | |||||||
| Wang, Hao | CHN | Ju, Wenjun | CHN | |||||||
| Wang, Yue | CHN | Sebag, Marie | FRA | |||||||
| Nepomniachtchi, Ian | RUS | Zhao, Xue | CHN | |||||||
| Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | FRA | Kosintseva, Tatiana | RUS | |||||||
| Kamsky, Gata | USA | Cramling, Pia | SWE | |||||||
| Leko, Peter | HUN | Ushenina, Anna | UKR | |||||||
| Ivanchuk, Vassily | UKR | Paehtz, Elisabeth | GER | |||||||
| Giri, Anish | NED | Cmilyte, Viktorija | LTU |