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GM Varuzhan Akobian playing GM Giorgi Kacheishvili blitz speed chess at the National Open in Las Vegas, NV June 15, 2006. Acording to Varuzhan Akobian, this game ended in a draw. At the time of this match Akobian's rating was 2649 and Giorgi's rating was 2643.

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  • No, it's not. Article 4.1: Each move must be made with one hand only.

    No discussion about that.

  • "It's perfectly legal to use two hands to capture."...not in blitz it isnt.

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  • to people who don't know, giorgi and varuzhan are both in roughly the top 10 of all players in the US. Speed chess is usually fast but these guys are considerably faster than even blitz specialists. For example they would destroy someone who was 2500 on ICC blitz like they were a joke.

  • @itsMinuteMaid why the fuck is this thumbs upped ?

  • Jesus morons the rule is as long as you hit the clock with the hand you move the piece with its legal he can take the captured piece with his tongue if he chooses as long as he hits the clock with the same hand as he plays with

  • You can use two hands the way he did it. The one hand rule says you have to hit the clock with the same hand you use to move the piece. Akobian captures with his left hand, hands the captured piece to his right, and hits the clock with a now empty left hand. It's one way of doing it,

    I would just break down and use my off hand instead of reaching across every move heh, but thats me.

  • Akobian use his 2 hands but it's forbidden I think. Quite strange.

  • draw. stalemate is if one of the sides has no legal move. they had the whole board to run around with the kings. ;)

  • when i first went to the marshall chess club, Giorgi was staring at me with amazement lol

  • a draw it says in info

  • I'm sorry, but if I'm gonna give someone $75 dollars for an hour of something, they better be tryin' to get me outta jail, out of/into a good lawsuit, or some mean sexual favors. But that's just me.

  • it was a stalemate or a draw

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