Blitz Player
Along with being a top-level professional, Grischuk is also known as one of the best blitz chess players in the world, having once held the record for highest rating achieved on the Internet Chess Club. In 2006 he won the World Blitz Championship in Rishon Lezion, Israel with 10.5 points out of 15 games, winning 10 games. He won his second World Blitz Championship in 2012 at Astana, Kazakhstan with 20 points out of thirty games.
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Famous quotes containing the words blitz and/or player:
“Timothy Winters comes to school
With eyes as wide as a football-pool,
Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters:
A blitz of a boy is Timothy Winters.”
—Charles Causley (b. 1917)
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—Amanda Clement (1888–1971)