Tweet
By Our Chess Correspondent
Monaco Mar 25 (PTI) World Champion Viswanathan Anand crashed through the defenses of Dutch youngster Anish Giri and finished third in the combined standings of the 20th and final Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament here today.
For the first time in the tournament, Anand won both the blindfold and rapid games making it impossible for his nearest rivals to breach his second spot in the blindfold and third in combined standings.
Levon Aronian of Armenia expectantly won the event, settling for two draws against Russian Sergey Karjakin in the final round.
Aronian, who enjoyed a full point lead coming into the final round, had it easy and after Magnus Carlsen went down in the blindfold game against Boris Gelfand of Israel, the Armenian was set to win his third Amber title.
Aronian scored 15.5 points and remained a full point ahead of Carlsen in the overall standings. Anand finished third on 13 points in the 12-players double round robin event.
The top three were class apart from the rest as fourth place was shared between Alexander Grischuk of Russia and Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine who tallied 11 points in all.
Aronian won the blindfold section, which was a mere formality anyways, finishing 1.5 points more than Anand while Carlsen won the rapid with a record 9.5 points.
Aronian also got second place in the rapid section while Anand finished joint third along with Ivanchuk and his last world championship challenger Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria.
Anish Giri repeated an opening in his blindfold game against Anand that his second Loek van Wely had played against the Indian ace in the 2006 Amber tournament.
Playing the English opening Giri deviated on the 10th move and introduced his new idea one move later. An interesting battle developed in which white had space, but an awkward king and Anand wanting to develop counter play on the queenside as soon as possible. .
Powered By WizardRSS.com | Full Text Feeds | Amazon Plugins
Monaco Mar 25 (PTI) World Champion Viswanathan Anand crashed through the defenses of Dutch youngster Anish Giri and finished third in the combined standings of the 20th and final Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament here today.
For the first time in the tournament, Anand won both the blindfold and rapid games making it impossible for his nearest rivals to breach his second spot in the blindfold and third in combined standings.
Levon Aronian of Armenia expectantly won the event, settling for two draws against Russian Sergey Karjakin in the final round.
Aronian, who enjoyed a full point lead coming into the final round, had it easy and after Magnus Carlsen went down in the blindfold game against Boris Gelfand of Israel, the Armenian was set to win his third Amber title.
Aronian scored 15.5 points and remained a full point ahead of Carlsen in the overall standings. Anand finished third on 13 points in the 12-players double round robin event.
The top three were class apart from the rest as fourth place was shared between Alexander Grischuk of Russia and Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine who tallied 11 points in all.
Aronian won the blindfold section, which was a mere formality anyways, finishing 1.5 points more than Anand while Carlsen won the rapid with a record 9.5 points.
Aronian also got second place in the rapid section while Anand finished joint third along with Ivanchuk and his last world championship challenger Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria.
Anish Giri repeated an opening in his blindfold game against Anand that his second Loek van Wely had played against the Indian ace in the 2006 Amber tournament.
Playing the English opening Giri deviated on the 10th move and introduced his new idea one move later. An interesting battle developed in which white had space, but an awkward king and Anand wanting to develop counter play on the queenside as soon as possible. .
Powered By WizardRSS.com | Full Text Feeds | Amazon Plugins
