Nakamura Blitz's his Way To Amber

However all the drama took place at the top of the scores for the Rising Stars team, as Anish Giri lost his game to Peter Heine Nielsen, and then had the imposing task of facing a blitz tiebreak playoff against Hikaru Nakamura - whose  legendary ICC blitz reputation was confirmed for all to see as the American easily won both games to snatch his ticket for a debut appearance at next year's 20th edition of the Amber Tournament blindfold and rapid elite extravaganza in Nice, France.

Mig Greengard and GM Miguel Illescas watched all the drama unfold live here on ICC Chess.FM.  And after recording his GOTD (Nielsen-Giri, see below) Illescas stayed on the air to give us a blow-by-blow account of the bruising blitz playoff.  Checkout below also the video coverage from Macauely Peterson and Peter Doggers of the final round and the blitz playoff. 

 Individual and Team scores (FINAL STANDINGS)

Rising Stars		vs.	Experience
Giri	6		Gelfand	7
Nakamura	6		Svidler	5.5
Caruana	5		Nielsen	4
Howell	4.5		van Wely	4
So	4.5		Ljubojevic	3.5
	26			24

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 Free GOTD from NH Tournament

Rd	Commentator	Game	FREE
10	GM Miguel Illescas	GM Peter Heine Nielsen vs. GM Anish Giri
9	GM Jon Speelman	GM Anish Giri vs. GM Loek Van Wely
8	GM Alex Yermolinsky	GM Ljubomir Ljubojevic vs. GM Anish Giri
7	GM Varuzhan Akobian	GM Fabiano Caruana vs. GM Peter Heine Nielsen
6	GM Larry Christiansen	GM Boris Gelfand vs. GM David Howell
5	GM Larry Christiansen	GM Anish Giri vs. GM Peter Heine Nielsen
4	GM Jan Gustafsson	GM Peter Svidler vs. GM Hikaru Nakamura
3	GM Alex Yermolinsky	GM Anish Giri vs. GM Ljubomir Ljubojevic
2	GM Joel Benjamin	GM Loek Van Wely vs GM Hikaru Nakamura
1	GM Joel Benjamin	GM Fabiano Caruana vs. GM Loek Van Wely

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