Aeroflot Blitz: YouTube videos

PeterDoggers

Updated: Feb 21, 2012, 12:44 AM | 0 | Chess Event Coverage

Last Friday we reported on the Aeroflot Blitz tournament which was won by Sergey Karjakin in his hometown Moscow, Russia. Some of our readers pointed out that a number of videos have been uploaded to YouTube by Eugene Potemkin and Sergey Sorokhtin, who were filming in the playing hall. A small selection.

Event	Aeroflot Blitz
Dates	February 16th, 2012
Location	Moscow, Russia
System	9-round Swiss, two games per round
Players	Top players included Sergey Karjakin, Alexander Morozevich, Peter Svidler and Alexander Grischuk
Rate of play	3 minutes for the game, with an additional 2 second increment
Prize fund	25,000 euro

Grischuk-Karjakin

Mamedyarov-Grischuk

Karjakin-Grischuk

More at Sergey Sorokhtin's YouTube channel.

Karjakin-Jobava

Dlugy-Karjakin

Jankovic-Karjakin & Pridorozhni-Grischuk

More at Eugene Potemkin's YouTube channel.