Aronian takes World Blitz

Levon Aronian won the 2010 World Blitz Championship, a twenty player double-round robin tournament. He finished just half a point ahead of Teimour Radjabov. Magnus Carlsen was third and trailed Radjabov by just half a point.

No.	Title	Name	Fed.	FIDE	Total
1	GM	Aronian, Levon	ARM	2801	24.5
2	GM	Radjabov, Teimour	AZE	2744	24
3	GM	Carlsen, Magnus	NOR	2802	23.5
4	GM	Gelfand, Boris	ISR	2741	21.5
5	GM	Nakamura, Hikaru	USA	2741	21.5
6	GM	Karjakin, Sergey	RUS	2760	20.5
7	GM	Kramnik, Vladimir	RUS	2791	20.5
8	GM	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	AZE	2763	19.5
9	GM	Svidler, Peter	RUS	2722	19.5
10	GM	Eljanov, Pavel	UKR	2742	19
11	GM	Grischuk, Alexander	RUS	2771	19
12	GM	Mamedov, Rauf	AZE	2660	18
13	GM	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	RUS	2720	18
14	GM	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA	2703	18
15	GM	Movsesian, Sergei	SVK	2721	17.5
16	GM	Andreikin, Dmitry	RUS	2683	17.5
17	GM	Grachev, Boris	RUS	2654	16.5
18	GM	Savchenko, Boris	RUS	2632	15.6
19	GM	Caruana, Fabiano	ITA	2709	13.5
20	GM	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	2744	12.5

Although the first three positions were very close, I felt Aronian is a worthy winner. His game were generally solid and in blitz where everybody blunders he just did less of that.

Radjabov's second placing came with a seven games win out of the last eight games. Kramnik lost his last two games to stay out of contention for the top placings.