[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Karjakin-Short rapid match starts today (Thursday)

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
Karjakin-Short rapid match starts today (Thursday)
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1215054707.shtml


   Incrediboy* Sergey Karjakin and former world chess championship
   finalist Nigel Short will play a 10-game rapid match from July 3-7 in
   Kiev, Ukraine. There will be two games each day, at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.
   local time (I believe that's 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. ET) except on the last
   day, when the games start an hour earlier. The time control is 25
   minutes per game, with 10 seconds added after each move.
   [1]Here's the website.
   * Magnus Carlsen was dubbed "wonderboy" when he became a GM at just
   under 13 years and five months of age; doesn't Karjakin deserve a
   nickname for doing it 10 months faster? "Incrediboy" it is, unless the
   readers come up with a better moniker.

References

   1. http://chess.life.com.ua/index.php?lng=en