Lenier Dominguez in the World Blitz Chess Championship for 2008
November 10, 2008
25 years old Cuban chess Grandmaster Lenier Dominguez-Perez won the World Blitz Championship, overplaying the world's top chess players from the league of Vassily Ivanchuk, Teimour Radjabov and Alexander Morozevich. Dominguez-Perez scored 11.5 points out of possible 15, winning 8 games and drawing in 7.
The World Blitz Chess Championship held between November 7th and 8th in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan with sixteen players including last year's World Blitz Chess Champion, Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk (who won the second place, scoring 11 points), Russian Alexander Morozevich, ranked number 2 in the world with 2787, and Judit Polgar highest ranked woman chess player (who came to the last place with 2.5 points). The tournament held in a round robin format with classic vanilla time controls, allowing each player five minutes for each game, and disabling time inrecements.
Lenier Dominguez-Perez victory is the first adult Cuban chess player to win a world title since Capablanca's days, who ruled the World Chess Championship between 1921 and 1927. The young chess grandmaster had already captured the attention of the chess world in 2006, when won the chess tournament Magistral d’Escacs Ciutat de Barcelona 8.0/9, leaving the second place to Ivanchuk. At the Almaty 2008 World Blitz Chess Championship, Dominguez-Perez took home 80,000 Swiss Francs (equivalent of €54,000 or $68,000), courtesy of the Chess Federation of Kazakhstan.
25 years old Cuban chess Grandmaster Lenier Dominguez-Perez won the World Blitz Championship, overplaying the world's top chess players from the league of Vassily Ivanchuk, Teimour Radjabov and Alexander Morozevich. Dominguez-Perez scored 11.5 points out of possible 15, winning 8 games and drawing in 7.
The World Blitz Chess Championship held between November 7th and 8th in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan with sixteen players including last year's World Blitz Chess Champion, Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk (who won the second place, scoring 11 points), Russian Alexander Morozevich, ranked number 2 in the world with 2787, and Judit Polgar highest ranked woman chess player (who came to the last place with 2.5 points). The tournament held in a round robin format with classic vanilla time controls, allowing each player five minutes for each game, and disabling time inrecements.
Lenier Dominguez-Perez victory is the first adult Cuban chess player to win a world title since Capablanca's days, who ruled the World Chess Championship between 1921 and 1927. The young chess grandmaster had already captured the attention of the chess world in 2006, when won the chess tournament Magistral d’Escacs Ciutat de Barcelona 8.0/9, leaving the second place to Ivanchuk. At the Almaty 2008 World Blitz Chess Championship, Dominguez-Perez took home 80,000 Swiss Francs (equivalent of €54,000 or $68,000), courtesy of the Chess Federation of Kazakhstan.