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November 17, 2010
The World Blitz Championship (November 16-18) is underway in Moscow. After two days and 28 rounds Levon Aronian leads with 18.5. Magnus Carlsen is in second place with 17 points while US #1 and bullet legend Hikaru Nakamura is in 6th with 15.5. See the full crosstable on russiachess.org.

You can watch the final day's action on Thursday, 11/18/2010 starting at 5 AM EST on the Internet Chess Club or the official website (in Russian).

Macauley Peterson, who wrote a midway and final report on the Tal Memorial for CLO shot the following video from the World Blitz for chessvibes.com.
 
 
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