BOTW: 2016.10.26
Grandmaster Blitz Battle Championship
October 27, 2016
10am Pacific, 1pm EST
Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura play a series of online blitz games to determine bragging rights as Best Online Blitz player.
The match will be 1.5 hours of 5+2 blitz, 1 hour of 3 +2 blitz, then 30 minutes of 1+1 bullet.
The first game of each new time control will be Fischer Random ("Chess960").
The event is sponsored by Chess.com, and the players will not be facing each other across a board, but play online. In previous rounds every player has had his webcam on, so the audience could get an "up close" view of both players.
Carlsen qualified by beating GMs Petrosian (21-4) and Grischuk (16-8).
Nakamura qualified by beating GMs Harikrishna (16-9) and MVL (21.5-10.5).
GMs Caruana and Aronian were eliminated in the first round by Grischuk and MVL.
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World Cadets
October 19-30, 2016
Batumi, Georgia
This is the younger half of what used to be the World Youth Chess Championship. It is an 11-round Swiss to decide World Champions in six sections: both Open and Girls in three age groups U8, U10, U12.
15 Canadians are playing. After 6 rounds several are in medal contention, lead by Anthony Atanasov with 5.5/6:
| SNo | Name | Rtg | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Pts. | Rk. | Group |
| 12 | Atanasov Anthony | 1546 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 5,5 | 2 | Open U08 |
| 138 | Zhong Kevin | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 4,5 | 18 | Open U08 |
| 16 | Issani Nameer | 1900 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 4,5 | 17 | Open U10 |
| 32 | Zhou Aiden | 1764 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 4,5 | 20 | Open U10 |
| 26 | Rodrigue-Lemieux Shawn | 2072 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4,0 | 32 | Open U12 |
| 45 | Huang Qiuyu | 1969 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 3,5 | 45 | Open U12 |
| 90 | Tian Shi Yuan | 1175 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 3,0 | 49 | Girls U12 |
| 86 | Chang Alexander Rz | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 3,0 | 77 | Open U08 |
| 68 | Guipi Bopala Prince Eric Jr | 1518 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 3,0 | 63 | Open U10 |
| 25 | Gilani Mysha | 1472 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 2,5 | 76 | Girls U10 |
| 54 | Hua Michelle | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2,0 | 69 | Girls U08 |
| 114 | Makarczyk David | 1419 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2,0 | 120 | Open U12 |
| 121 | Srinivas Atharva | 1014 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1,5 | 140 | Open U10 |
| 127 | Fedyushchenko Alexander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1,5 | 141 | Open U10 |
| 133 | Jasniewicz Karol | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1,5 | 143 | Open U10 |
Canadian Results
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr238140.aspx?lan=1&art=25&fedb=CAN&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984
Homepage
http://www.e2e4.ge/
Russian Superfinal
October 16-27, 2016
Novosibirsk
Two 12-player round robins to decide the men's and women's Russian Championship
The men's event is on course to set a record for most draws: after 9 rounds, Alexander Riazantsev leads with +2, 1/2 a point ahead of five players, four of whom have each scored 1 win and 8 draws.
The women's event is lead by former Women's World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk with 7/9 (+6 =2 -1).
You can follow the games on chess24 with live commentary from GMs Pavel Tregubov & Evgenij Miroshnichenko; but they start at 4am EST, so replays on livestream would be a better choice for people with regular hours.
Men's event
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/russian-championship-2016#live
Women's event
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/russian-womens-championship-2016/4/1/1
Livestream
http://livestream.com/ChessCast