Following three back-to-back tournaments (Olympiad, Bilbao, Nanjing), a two weeks break came and went quickly, and we arrived in Moscow on Sunday evening.\r\nMonday a week ago NRK, the main Norwegian TV channel, covered a chess session I had at Simonsen Law firm with an 8-yr old (son of an employee) and Tuesday I was a guest at the .Storbynatt. talk show as I.m a fan of hosts Eia and Tufte Johansen.\r\nFriday and Saturday I visited Tromsø the kick-off for the organizational phase of the 2014 Chess Olympiad, playing blindfold, blitz and chess with live pieces.\r\nBack to the Tal Blitz: At the opening and drawing of lots today I received the Chess Oscar for 2009!\r\nThe combined Tal and World Championship Blitz takes place over three days as a 20-player all-play-all-twice tournament with time control 3 minutes + 2 seconds/move per game per player.\r\nI got off to an excellent start winning the first four games against blitz expert Nakamura, Ponomariov, Kramnik and Movsesian