Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland 2025: Day 5 | #GrandChessTour

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Live from the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, the 4th Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland is the first of six legs of the Grand Chess Tour. Five of the Tour players are joined by five wildcards (pairings below) for a rapid round robin and a blitz double round robin. Today is the final blitz round robin, plus playoffs if necessary. Join GMs Yasser Seirawan, Peter Svidler, & Maurice Ashley, IM Nazi Paikidze, and WGM Anastasiya Karlovich for the move-by-move.

2025.04.30
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BLITZ ROUND 10 | 5 Min. Incr. 2 Sec.
Vladimir Fedoseev (19) vs. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (14.5)
R Praggnanandhaa (15.5) vs. Bogdan-Daniel Deac (13)
Jan-Krzysztof Duda (13) vs. Alireza Firouzja (14)
Aravindh Chithambaram (14.5) vs. David Gavrilescu (9)
Veselin Topalov (8) vs. Levon Aronian (14.5)

BLITZ ROUNDS 11-18 | 5 Min. Incr. 2 Sec.
https://www.chessarbiter.com/turnieje/2025/ti_2738/results.html?l=en&tb=1_&rd=11_

TWO PLAYER TIE: TWO-GAME PLAYOFF | 8 Min. Incr. 3 Sec.
THREE OR MORE TIE: ROUND ROBIN PLAYOFF | 5 Min. Incr. 2 Sec.
If the playoff doesn’t produce a clear winner, the remaining tied players enter an Armageddon knockout.

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