Gata Kamsky won unofficial world championships on rapid chess - Chess Classic 2010 held in Mainz (Germany) involving 701 players. Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian failed to defend his title. He opened the tournament with 5 victories, winning 4 another games on the second day but thereafter drew with Inarkiev and lost to the future champion. Kamsky celebrated 9 victories and drew with Gashimov and Grischuk.

1.  Gata Kamsky - 10.0

2. Vugar Gashimov - 9.5

3. Levon Aronian - 9.5

4. Evgeniy Bareev - 9.5

5. Sergey Karjakin - 9.0

6. Robert Kempinski - 9.0

7. Alexander Grischuk - 9.0

8. Alexey Shirov - 9.0