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2018 Speed Chess Championship: Aronian-Giri
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 10:26AM
This match between Levon Aronian and Anish Giri, the second of the quarterfinal pairings of the 2018 Speed Chess Championship, occurred last week. Most of you probably already know what happened, if you've followed the competition closely, but I'll stick to my usual procedure and report the result in the first comment. So: if you want to watch the video coverage as if it were live, here's the link.
Whatever the final result, Giri had a bit of a problem with a glass jaw in the match, losing a handful of brutal games to lightning attacks. Here are five of them.
Reader Comments (1)
Truly some great games in the first round. Nakamura's fine win with the nimzo has been commented on the most in the first round. US has blanked the opposition 4-0, so that's a good start.
Perhaps you might find time to annotate a game in each round... so some interesting part of a game?
[DM: Could you resubmit this to the correct post? Thanks, primarily for the comment, but also for helping out with this.]