Vachier-Lagrave is European Blitz Chess Champion 2010

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GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

Hi Everybody,

French Grandmaster Maxime Vachier-Lagrave has won the 2010 European Blitz Championship. He was part of a 400-player field in Warsaw. He played a full day of 26 chess games (13 double rounds) to walk away with the title.

No, it wasn't easy. There were 52 Grandmasters and 293 rated players along with top Polish players like Radosław Wojtaszek while Vasilly Ivanchuk was top seed. Ruslan Ponomariov was leading initially but soon the title race narrowed down to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Vladimir Tkachiev.

Vassily Ivanchuk was second. He started not too well but managed good wins towards the end of the tournament. Ruslan Ponomariov was third. You can check the official website here.

The tournament also included the world's strongest woman chess player Judit Polgar who finished a credible eleventh.

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1	GM	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA	2703	22.0
2	GM	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2764	20.0
3	GM	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	2744	19.5
4	GM	Movsesian, Sergei	SVK	2721	18.5
5	GM	Gashimov, Vugar	AZE	2733	18.5
6	GM	Edouard, Romain	FRA	2636	18.5
7	GM	Fridman, Daniel	GER	2645	18.0
8	GM	Rublevsky, Sergei	RUS	2678	18.0
9	GM	Inarkiev, Ernesto	RUS	2667	18.0
10	GM	Mchedlishvili, Mikheil	GEO	2637	18.0
11	GM	Polgar, Judit	HUN	2686	18.0
12	GM	Lysyj, Igor	RUS	2627	18.0
13	GM	Moiseenko, Alexander	UKR	2670	18.0

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