After the ninth round of Blitz Championships in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, Iranian chess grandmaster Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami clinched the first place on Monday.
According to IRNA, Ghaem-Maghami bagged 7 points out of nine-round Swiss scoring system to achieve the spot.
Starting from fifth place of the starter ranking, he finished first at the end of the games.
Anton Korobov, grandmaster form Ukraine and also European champion and Yevgeniy Pak from Kazakhstan finished second and third respectively.
Seyyed Khalil Mousavi also from Iran finished fifth. Other members of the team, Nima Hosseinzadeh and Alireza Firouzja finished eighth and twelfth respectively.
In the tournament, 52 participants from 11 countries took part.
Blitz chess, also known as Speed Chess, is a single, time-controlled game of 1-10 minutes.
Ghaem-Maghami, 35, has the Guinness World Record for simultaneous chess games after facing more than 600 players in over 25 hours in 2011.
At the event he won 97.35% of his games on February 8, 2011, in Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University, a feat reportedly making him the new Guinness title holder of the game.
Of the total 604 games, Ghaem-Maghami won 580, lost 8 and drew 16 in a feat that took more than 25 hours and treading around 55 kilometers as he moved from opponent to opponent. He had become a grandmaster in 2000.
