First place and the $68,000 was snapped up by Lenier Dominguez-Perez, a talented young GM from Cuba, who scored 11.5/15 against the big boys. The time control was the classical 5 min with no increment.
The other shock of the tournament was the poor result by Judit Polgar finishing in last place.
Here is the chessbase article with the crosstable.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5005
The Follwing position is from the game Gelfand-Dominguez.
the game continued
19...Nxe4 black could play Qxd5 but white regains the queen and wins material by Nxf6+ and the pin along the e-file stops black from capturing the knight. 20.Rxe4?? and Gelfand resigned probably embarassed having just dropped his Queen for free . One of the great skills blitz helps with is quick board vision and sometimes even the best in the world are also only a half move away from terrible blunders.
1 comment:
nice to know even a Super Grandmaster can play bunny moves like us mortals
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