Melkumyan wins European Blitz in Warsaw

Hrant Melkumyan

The European Blitz and Rapid Championships are taking place in Warsaw, Poland. The new European Blitz Champion is Hrant Melkumyan, which is something of a surprise result, as the Armenian was only the 28th seed. Aleksey Dreev took silver and Radoslaw Wojtaszek bronze.

Here are the top twenty:

Rank	Player	Country	Elo	Points	Tie-break 1	Tie-break 2
1	Dreev, Aleksey Silver	RUS	2710	20.0	191.00	223.00
2	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw Bronze	POL	2705	20.0	190.50	224.00
3	Melkumyan, Hrant Gold	ARM	2615	20.0	182.50	215.00
4	Socko, Bartosz	POL	2635	19.5	189.00	223.00
5	Korobov, Anton	UKR	2660	19.0	186.00	218.00
6	Polgar, Judit	HUN	2710	19.0	182.50	211.50
7	Riazantsev, Alexander	RUS	2710	19.0	181.00	210.50
8	Moranda, Wojciech	POL	2568	19.0	175.00	205.50
9	Jaracz, Pawel	POL	2542	18.5	177.00	209.00
10	Volokitin, Andrei	UKR	2695	18.0	177.50	208.50
11	Shimanov, Aleksandr	RUS	2549	18.0	176.00	207.50
12	Timofeev, Artyom	RUS	2659	18.0	175.50	203.00
13	Gajewski, Grzegorz	POL	2616	18.0	174.00	206.00
14	Kravtsiv, Martyn	UKR	2601	18.0	166.00	196.00
15	Movsesian, Sergei	ARM	2710	17.5	190.00	222.00
16	Bologan, Viktor	MDA	2665	17.5	184.50	216.50
17	Bacrot, Etienne	FRA	2714	17.5	183.50	213.00
18	Jones, Gawain C B	ENG	2635	17.5	180.50	212.50
19	Swiercz, Dariusz	POL	2584	17.5	179.50	212.50
20	Ruck, Robert	HUN	2579	17.5	178.00	209.50

The official site: http://www.poloniachess.pl/amplico2011/en