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The SportAccord World Mind Games took place in Beijing 11th to 17th December 2014. Rapid, blitz and Basque (two games played simultaneously with black and white) chess events. Grischuk, Aronian, Ivanchuk, Nepomniachtchi, Radjabov, Leko etc in the men's section. Alexander Grischuk won the Rapid and Blitz sections but Ian Nepomniachtchi won the final Basque System rapid where players play two games against each other at the same time. Hou Yifan won the Blitz and Basque women's sections and Valentina Gunina the rapid.

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SportAccord Rapid 2014 Beijing CHN Thu 11th Dec 2014 - Wed 17th Dec 2014 Leading Final Round 7 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	+	Pts	TB1	TB2	Perf
1	1	Grischuk Alexander	GM	RUS	2828	3	5	0	3	2762
2	12	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	GM	FRA	2728	3	4½	0	3	2768
3	14	Wang Hao	GM	CHN	2719	3	4½	0	3	2766
4	2	Aronian Levon	GM	ARM	2813	3	4½	0	3	2749
5	9	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	GM	AZE	2739	2	4½	0	3	2778
6	4	Nepomniachtchi Ian	GM	RUS	2801	3	4	0	4	2743
7	3	Ivanchuk Vassily	GM	UKR	2811	3	4	0	3	2746
8	7	Wang Yue	GM	CHN	2765	2	3½	1	3	2726
9	13	Gelfand Boris	GM	ISR	2719	2	3½	0	4	2742
10	8	Dominguez Perez Leinier	GM	CUB	2763	2	3	0	4	2740
11	6	Leko Peter	GM	HUN	2773	1	3	0	4	2750
12	16	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	GM	POL	2684	1	2½	0	4	2767
13	11	Bacrot Etienne	GM	FRA	2731	1	2½	0	4	2761
14	10	Ponomariov Ruslan	GM	UKR	2738	1	2½	0	4	2747
15	15	Harikrishna P.	GM	IND	2701	0	2½	0	4	2771
16	5	Radjabov Teimour	GM	AZE	2776	0	2	0	3	2753
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SportAccord Rapid w 2014 Beijing CHN Thu 11th Dec 2014 - Wed 17th Dec 2014 Leading Final Round 7 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	+	Pts	TB1	TB2	Perf
1	6	Gunina Valentina	GM	RUS	2552	5	5½	0	4	2502
2	2	Hou Yifan	GM	CHN	2600	4	5	0	4	2516
3	10	Ushenina Anna	GM	UKR	2489	3	4½	½	4	2507
4	7	Dzagnidze Nana	GM	GEO	2547	3	4½	½	3	2507
5	8	Muzychuk Anna	GM	UKR	2546	2	4	1	4	2476
6	11	Paehtz Elisabeth	IM	GER	2485	3	4	0	4	2549
7	9	Kosintseva Tatiana	GM	RUS	2505	3	3½	0	3	2554
8	13	Muzychuk Mariya	IM	UKR	2445	3	3½	0	3	2522
9	3	Stefanova Antoaneta	GM	BUL	2578	1	3½	0	3	2521
10	5	Ju Wenjun	GM	CHN	2555	1	3½	0	3	2468
11	12	Zhao Xue	GM	CHN	2485	1	3	0	3	2562
12	15	Harika Dronavalli	GM	IND	2421	0	3	0	4	2561
13	16	Khotenashvili Bela	GM	GEO	2407	2	2½	0	4	2543
14	1	Koneru Humpy	GM	IND	2611	1	2	0	4	2460
15	4	Kosteniuk Alexandra	GM	RUS	2577	1	2	0	3	2483
16	14	Cramling Pia	GM	SWE	2443	0	2	0	3	2526
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SportAccord Blitz 2014 Beijing CHN Thu 11th Dec 2014 - Wed 17th Dec 2014 Leading Final Round 30 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	+	Pts	TB1
1	2	Grischuk Alexander	GM	RUS	2819	14	19½	278.75
2	12	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	GM	FRA	2776	13	18½	263.75
3	10	Radjabov Teimour	GM	AZE	2715	13	18	262.50
4	15	Aronian Levon	GM	ARM	2850	13	17½	256.00
5	8	Ivanchuk Vassily	GM	UKR	2720	13	17	240.50
6	4	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	GM	AZE	2866	14	17	239.75
7	9	Nepomniachtchi Ian	GM	RUS	2788	15	17	250.50
8	7	Ponomariov Ruslan	GM	UKR	2758	12	15	213.50
9	14	Leko Peter	GM	HUN	2694	7	14½	220.75
10	1	Gelfand Boris	GM	ISR	2757	10	14½	214.75
11	3	Dominguez Perez Leinier	GM	CUB	2728	9	13	180.50
12	6	Wang Hao	GM	CHN	2693	8	13	185.00
13	11	Wang Yue	GM	CHN	2680	8	12½	181.00
14	16	Harikrishna P.	GM	IND	2728	7	11½	166.50
15	13	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	GM	POL	2743	7	11½	176.50
16	5	Bacrot Etienne	GM	FRA	2739	6	10	145.75
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SportAccord Blitz w 2014 Beijing CHN Thu 11th Dec 2014 - Wed 17th Dec 2014 Leading Final Round 30 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	+	Pts	TB1
1	16	Hou Yifan	GM	CHN	2662	20	22½	319.25
2	13	Gunina Valentina	GM	RUS	2582	17	19½	278.00
3	10	Muzychuk Anna	GM	UKR	2665	17	19½	275.00
4	12	Harika Dronavalli	GM	IND	2533	11	17	229.50
5	9	Dzagnidze Nana	GM	GEO	2591	12	17	229.75
6	8	Zhao Xue	GM	CHN	2576	14	16½	232.75
7	4	Kosteniuk Alexandra	GM	RUS	2479	12	16½	233.75
8	15	Koneru Humpy	GM	IND	2521	10	16	215.50
9	14	Ju Wenjun	GM	CHN	2469	13	15½	208.50
10	11	Kosintseva Tatiana	GM	RUS	2578	11	14	193.00
11	1	Stefanova Antoaneta	GM	BUL	2569	8	14	201.25
12	3	Ushenina Anna	GM	UKR	2467	8	13	188.00
13	2	Paehtz Elisabeth	IM	GER	2522	9	12½	169.25
14	5	Khotenashvili Bela	GM	GEO	2457	5	10½	148.25
15	7	Muzychuk Mariya	IM	UKR	2439	6	10½	144.75
16	6	Cramling Pia	GM	SWE	2433	2	5½	80.00
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SportAccord Basque 2014 Beijing CHN Thu 11th Dec 2014 - Wed 17th Dec 2014 Leading Final Round 5 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	+	Pts	TB1	TB2	Perf
1	7	Nepomniachtchi Ian	GM	RUS	2801	5	7½	0	5	2747
2	11	Radjabov Teimour	GM	AZE	2776	4	6	0	5	2770
3	4	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	GM	FRA	2728	3	6	0	5	2761
4	5	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	GM	AZE	2739	3	6	0	5	2747
5	14	Dominguez Perez Leinier	GM	CUB	2763	3	5½	2	5	2767
6	2	Grischuk Alexander	GM	RUS	2828	4	5½	0	5	2760
7	3	Leko Peter	GM	HUN	2773	2	5½	0	5	2767
8	10	Wang Hao	GM	CHN	2719	4	5	1	5	2783
9	12	Aronian Levon	GM	ARM	2813	2	5	1	5	2720
10	6	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	GM	POL	2684	1	4½	0	5	2747
11	1	Ponomariov Ruslan	GM	UKR	2738	1	4½	0	5	2742
12	13	Wang Yue	GM	CHN	2765	0	4½	0	5	2754
13	9	Harikrishna P.	GM	IND	2701	2	4	0	5	2773
14	8	Gelfand Boris	GM	ISR	2719	0	4	0	5	2756
15	16	Ivanchuk Vassily	GM	UKR	2811	0	3½	0	5	2740
16	15	Bacrot Etienne	GM	FRA	2731	1	3	0	5	2751
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SportAccord Basque w 2014 Beijing CHN Thu 11th Dec 2014 - Wed 17th Dec 2014 Leading Final Round 5 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	+	Pts	TB1	TB2	Perf
1	1	Hou Yifan	GM	CHN	2600	7	8½	0	5	2544
2	16	Kosteniuk Alexandra	GM	RUS	2577	6	7	0	5	2491
3	13	Zhao Xue	GM	CHN	2485	5	6	0	5	2550
4	2	Stefanova Antoaneta	GM	BUL	2578	5	6	0	5	2526
5	11	Koneru Humpy	GM	IND	2611	5	5½	0	5	2539
6	12	Ju Wenjun	GM	CHN	2555	5	5½	0	5	2490
7	6	Dzagnidze Nana	GM	GEO	2547	4	5½	0	5	2525
8	9	Muzychuk Anna	GM	UKR	2546	4	5½	0	5	2522
9	4	Gunina Valentina	GM	RUS	2552	4	5	0	5	2515
10	10	Ushenina Anna	GM	UKR	2489	4	5	0	5	2511
11	15	Harika Dronavalli	GM	IND	2421	2	4½	0	5	2524
12	3	Kosintseva Tatiana	GM	RUS	2505	3	3½	0	5	2562
13	7	Cramling Pia	GM	SWE	2443	3	3½	0	5	2498
14	5	Muzychuk Mariya	IM	UKR	2445	3	3	2	5	2499
15	8	Khotenashvili Bela	GM	GEO	2407	3	3	2	5	2499
16	14	Paehtz Elisabeth	IM	GER	2485	3	3	2	5	2464
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