Sergey Karjakin Wins World Blitz Championship
And did so on tiebreaks over Magnus Carlsen, too! As in the 2015 championship both players were dominant on day 1, but this time both players stayed hot to the very end, and their huge score of 16.5/21 left them two points ahead of their closest pursuers: Daniil Dubov (bronze medalist on tiebreaks), Hikaru Nakamura, and 2015 world blitz champion Alexander Grischuk.
It's noteworthy that Karjakin won their head-to-head game, and it's also interesting that Vassily Ivanchuk defeated Carlsen yet again, though he finished out of the running for medals and couldn't back up his earlier win in the rapid championship.
There's a nice report on day two of the event here, and I'll close with a couple (or maybe four) bits of information: Anna Muzychuk won both the rapid and the blitz events in the concurrent ladies' event(s), and the 2017 World Rapid and Blitz titles are to be contested in July, in Munich, Germany.