Tournament Prediction Game 2017 (PPP) 🡺 "Tata Steel Chess 2018"

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Magnus trashed the blitz

So, I made a prediction (I'm registered) - I'm gonna win something here, yes?

And Giri feels like trash xD

Yes, our eternal admiration

Tommorow Magnus against Wesley! 

Interestingly, Magnus won the blitz section in Norway Chess thrice, in 2014, 2016 and 2017 - always with the same result - 7.5/9 

@Piperose, haha, I can confirm your prediction is safely recorded  As for the "prizes", there are none scheduled for individual event, only our admiration and bragging rights, as @Eseles said  Not sure about the prize at the end of the year, we'll see, hehe.

@Mihai_Stefan, probably gonna be game of the round :)

Mmmmm.

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Surprised Giri did so poorly in the blitz.

Also, why don't they make the blitz rated (same goes for other round robin classical tourneys that begin with a round of blitz)?

Oh, and one more question: why is Kramnik #5 and Karjakin #6? They both have 4.5/9.

1. It is rated. Check the ratings here: http://www.2700chess.com/blitz
2. It has to do something with some tie-breakers, maybe Sonneborn-Berger. Or directly better head-to-head (Kramnik won in the last round against Sergey).

I want to comment on no.2, that yes, it must be something along those lines, but even the commentators at chess24 (Jan and Svidler) weren't sure about that, and they get paid to do that job, so....

Ok, here we go 

At the chess24 broadast they said that the following broadcasts of Norway Chess will be available only for premium members of their site. So that means that even free members of chess24 won't be able to aceess them, right? Is there a way for freeloaders to watch a broadcast of the games with commentary somewhere? Chess.com will be transmitting them in live chess, but without commentary AFAIK.

You can watch on live.norwaychess.com with commentary from Short and one other guy!

Possibly, Magnus won the Norway Chess Blitz thrice, with 7.5/9, without losing a game - now that would be amazing!

Yes! I came to post this, but you beat me to it. That other guy is from the Norwegian Chess Federation, I think