Participants

Krishnan Sasikiran (07.01. 1981, India). Indian grandmaster is one of young chess players, which made their first steps after successes of  Vishvanatan Anand. Trainers from former USSR helped to the Indian Chess Federation. And among them was Evgeniy Vladimirov from Kazakhstan. Hindus respected him and called “greatest coach”. Inspite of his young age and great competition, very soon Sasikiran became the greatest Indian chess-player after Anand. Than he came to the world chess elite and to the list of  World Top Chess players. Sasikiran is very pleasant man, but became the real “tiger” in facing of chess-board. He won a lot of international tournaments, among them - in Warsaw, Kolkata, World Cup in Hanti-Mansiysk.

 

IV World Blitz Chess Championship was finished by unexpected victory of grand master from Cuba Leinier Dominguez Perez, who played with 15 great blitz-players in the world. Chess-player from Cuba won 8 games and didn’t lose no one, so he took 11,5 scores.
World Blitz Champion 2007 Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukrain) took 2nd place with 11 scores. Five times champion of Russia Peter Svidler became bronze medalist with 10 scores.
08.11.08 display of multi-board chess-play of honorable guest of the Championship, 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov with 15 chess fancies from Kazakhstan was held.  Prize-winner of VIII international Seimar Chess Tournament among children and youth Yaroslav Ryabov draw with legendary chess-player.
The opening ceremony of the IV WBCC was conducted on November, 7 at 7 PM. FIDE president Kirsan Ilumzhinov, even office’s chief, mayor of Almaty Akhmetzhan Esimov and Kazakhstan Chess federation president Margulan Seisembaev made welcoming speeches on the ceremony.
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