Blindfold in Beijing!

At the closing ceremony

The three-day Blindfold rapid has finished with a three-way tie on 5/7 for first place in the mixed event. The Hungarian GM Zoltan Almasi had more victories under his belt and was thus declared the winner ahead of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Vugar Gashimov. In the parellel Women's event, Hou Yifan added the Blindfold crown to the Blitz title she won earlier this week.

So 13th seed Almasi wins the Blindfold event due to his superior tie-break (number of victories).

Rank	Name	Country	Elo	Points	Tie-Break
1	Almasi Zoltan	HUN	2707	5.0	4
2	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	FRA	2710	5.0	3
3	Gashimov Vugar	AZE	2757	5.0	3
4	Grischuk Alexander	RUS	2752	4.5	3
5	Wang Hao	CHN	2736	4.0	4
6	Wang Yue	CHN	2697	3.5	2
7	Mamedyarov Shakhriyar	AZE	2733	3.5	2
8	Ivanchuk Vassily	UKR	2775	3.5	2
9	Ponomariov Ruslan	UKR	2723	3.5	1
10	Giri Anish	NED	2714	3.0	2
11	Kamsky Gata	USA	2732	3.0	2
12	Karjakin Sergey	RUS	2763	3.0	1
13	Nielsen Peter Heine	DEN	2693	3.0	1
14	Dominguez Perez Leinier	CUB	2712	3.0	1
15	Le Quang Liem	VIE	2714	2.5	2
16	Vallejo Pons Francisco	ESP	2705	1.0	0

In the Women's event, the World champion Hou Yifan again demonstrated her dominance.

Rank	Title	Nom	Country	Elo	Points	Tie-Break 1	Tie-Break 2
1	GM	Hou Yifan	CHN	2578	5.5	0.0	5
2	GM	Cmilyte Viktorija	LTU	2503	4.5	0.0	4
3	GM	Kosteniuk Alexandra	RUS	2439	4.5	0.0	4
4	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	GEO	2516	4.5	0.0	4
5	IM	Dembo Yelena	GRE	2468	4.5	0.0	3
6	IM	Paehtz Elisabeth	GER	2457	4.5	0.0	3
7	IM	Zatonskih Anna	USA	2506	4.0	0.0	4
8	GM	Lahno Kateryna	UKR	2549	4.0	0.0	2
9	GM	Danielian Elina	ARM	2497	3.5	0.5	2
10	GM	Harika Dronavalli	IND	2512	3.5	0.5	2
11	WGM	Ju Wenjun	CHN	2543	3.0	0.0	2
12	IM	Muzychuk Anna	SLO	2562	2.5	0.0	2
13	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	BUL	2531	2.5	0.0	1
14	GM	Socko Monika	POL	2479	2.0	0.0	1
15	GM	Cramling Pia	SWE	2495	2.0	0.0	1
16	IM	Skripchenko Almira	FRA	2468	1.0	0.0	1

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