World Blitz Cup

The Preliminaries for the FIDE World Cup Blitz took place 19th-20th November 2007 with a strong 64 player field. The field will be 8 from the Tal Memorial (Alekseev and Jakovenko not playing), Grischuk and Morozevich (Svidler withdraws ill at the last moment) Anand and Karpov plus 8 qualifiers. Time control: 4min+2sec from move 1.

Official site: http://www.russiachess.org/

World Blitz Moscow 20 player field
No	Name	t	NAT	oc07
1	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2801
2	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2787
3	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2785
5	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2755
6	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2755
7	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyaz	g	AZE	2752
10	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2739
11	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2736
13	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2729
15	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2715
16	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2714
17	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	2714
21	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2705
23	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2695
29	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	2690
35	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	2676
43	Karpov, Anatoly	g	RUS	2670
	Dreev, Alexey	g	RUS	2607
	Korotylev, Alexey	g	RUS	2600
	Savchenko, Boris	g	RUS	2583

Blitz Qualifier Moscow RUS 19-20 xi 2007 Final Round 11 Standings
Place	SNo.	Title	Name	Fed.	FIDE	Total	MBch.
1	7	GM	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	UZB	2690	15	119
2	5	GM	Bacrot, Etienne	FRA	2695	14.5	114
3	1	GM	Adams, Michael	ENG	2729	14.5	114
4	44	GM	Savchenko, Boris	RUS	2583	14.5	107.5
5	3	GM	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	2705	14	113.5
6	36	GM	Dreev, Alexey	RUS	2607	14	112.5
7	11	GM	Rublevsky, Sergei	RUS	2676	14	112
8	38	GM	Korotylev, Alexey	RUS	2600	14	108
9	21	GM	Fressinet, Laurent	FRA	2654	13.5	105.5
10	18	GM	Tkachiev, Vladislav	FRA	2661	13	123
11	31	GM	Fedorov, Alexei	BLR	2612	13	101.5
12	17	GM	Sasikiran, Krishnan	IND	2661	13	101
13	19	GM	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	ESP	2660	13	91
14	14	GM	Movsesian, Sergei	SVK	2670	12.5	109
15	24	GM	Volkov, Sergey	RUS	2648	12.5	104.5
16	28	GM	Amonatov, Farrukh	TJK	2637	12.5	96.5
17	33	GM	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	RUS	2611	12	116
18	8	GM	Malakhov, Vladimir	RUS	2690	12	112
19	9	GM	Van Wely, Loek	NED	2679	12	110.5
20	25	GM	Moiseenko, Alexander	UKR	2646	12	106
21	13	GM	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	RUS	2674	12	104.5
22	4	GM	Wang, Yue	CHN	2703	12	104
23	23	GM	Georgiev, Kiril	BUL	2649	12	103
24	57	GM	Dlugy, Maxim	USA	2518	12	100.5