Thursday, March 30, 2006

Amber tournament: Morozevich and Anand shared first place

This tournament saw an impressive run of Alexander Morozevich who won blindfold section with 9.5 points out of 11 rounds. Unfortunately, this was not enough for first place in overall standings as Alexander collected only 5 points in rapid games. As usual, Viswanathan Anand won rapid section with 8.0/11 to catch Morozevich on first place tie.

Francisco Vallejo Pons must be in excellent physical shape. Amber was something like his 4th tournament in a row, yet he took high 3rd place in a very tough competition.


Final Overall Standings:
1-2. Alexander Morozevich RUS 2721 and Viswanathan Anand IND 2792 with 14.5/22
3. Francisco Vallejo Pons ESP 2650 12.0
4. Alexander Grischuk RUS 2717 11.5
5-6 Veselin Topalov BUL 2801 and Peter Leko HUN 2740 11.0
7-8. Levon Aronian ARM 2752 and Boris Gelfand ISR 2723 10.5
9. Loek Van Wely NED 2647 10.0
10. Peter Svidler RUS 2765 9.5
11. Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2729 9.0
12. Peter Heine Nielsen DEN 2644 8.0


Games can be found on
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