What does it take to be a World Blitz Champion?

World Blitz Championship was recently held and the surprise winner is GM Leinier Dominguez of Cuba . Placing second is the defending 2007 World Blitz Champion GM Vassily Ivanchuk. For more details of the championship, refer to the official website.

If a Cuban can be a champion, so can a Filipino and more specifically a Cebuano. More and more Cebuanos are playing blitz chess games nowadays. With the lure of huge amount of money from betting blitz games.

This blogger remember the days of just staying in the cebu chess club waiting for eager competitors for a games series of blitz games. It was also remembered of the late National Master "Loloy" Ruelan who encourage the blitz chess games. The blitz games can vary from 1 minute each to 5 minute-games. There are even handicapped blitz games.

If only Cebuanos can compete with those world blitz championship, we will be seeing ourselves with a future World Chess Blitz Champion.

So, what does it take to be a World Blitz Champion?

You should be a balanced chess player, with mastery of opening theories, middlegame strategies, and ending theories. Also, you must have a great speed in moving pieces, and most of all fast thinking.

There are plenty of Cebuanos who can be good in blitz. It will now be a matter of exposure to the World Chess Blitz Championship cycle, where one of us could be the future champion.


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