Thursday, April 05, 2007
Pestaño: Kramnik rules Amber; Anand seizes top spot
By Frank “Boy” Pestaño
Chessmoso
WORLD Champion Vladimir Kramnik won the blindfold event and placed second in the rapid to win this unique tournament by two points. He had an almost 3000 level performance in the blindfold event, scoring nine of 11 for his sixth win in Monaco. Anand won the rapid event and grabbed 8.5 points out of 11 for a performance rating of 2939.
Here are the final scores:
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BLINDFOLD
1.) Kramnik, Vladimir (Russia,2766, 9) 2.) Morozevich, Alexander (Russia, 2741, 7) 3.) Gelfand, Boris (Israel, 2733, 7) 4.) Ivanchuk, Vassily (Ukraine, 2750, 6.5) 5.) Svidler, Peter (Russia, 2728, 6.5) 6.) Aronian, Levon (Armenia, 2744, 6) 7.) Radjabov, Teimour (Azerbaijan, 2729, 5) 8. Anand, Viswanathan (India, 2779, 5) 9.) Carlsen, Magnus (Norway, 2690, 4) 10.) Leko, Peter (Hungary, 2749, 4) 11.) Van Wely, Loek (Netherlands, 2683, 3.5) 12.) Vallejo Pons, Francisco (Spain, 2679, 2.5).
RAPID
1.) Anand (2779, 8.5) 2.) Kramnik (2766, 6.5) 3.) Carlsen (2690, 6.5) 4.) Leko (2749, 6.5) 5.) Ivanchuk (2750, 6.5) 6.) Aronian (2744, 6) 7.) Svidler (2728, 5.5) 8.) Gelfand (2733, 4.5) 9.) Morozevich (2741, 4.5) 10.) Radjabov (2729, 4.) 11.) Vallejo (2679, 4) 12.) Van (2683, 3).
COMBINED SCORES
1. Kramnik (2766, 15.5) 2.) Anand (2779, 13.5) 3.) Ivanchuk (2750, 13) 4.) Svidler (2728, 12) 5.) Aronian (2744, 12) 6.) Morozevich (2741, 11.5) 7.) Gelfand (2733, 11.5) 8.) Carlsen (2690, 10.5) 9.) Leko (2749, 10.5) 10.) Radjabov (2729, 9.) 11.) Vallejo (2679, 6.5) 12.) Van Wely (2683, 6.5).
TOP PLAYERS. Topalov would have retained his No.1 status had Fide excluded the Morelia /Linares tournament. However, a protest from the Indian Federation changed all that and now Anand becomes the sixth man since the 70s—after Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik and Topalov—to occupy the No.1 position and the first Asian to do so. He won Linares, while Topalov tied for last with Leko.
Topalov is tied with Kramnik at second, while Morozevich is at a career high fourth with Aronian pushed down to fifth followed by Mamedyarov at sixth.
TOP 10. 1.) Anand (37, 2782) 2.Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, 31, 2772) 3.) Kramnik (31, 2772) 4. Morozevich (29, 2762) 5.) Aronian (24, 2759) 6.) Shakriyaz Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan, 21, 2757) 7.) Radjabov (20, 2747) 8.) Leko (27, 2738) 9.) Svidler (30, 2736) 10.) Michael Adams (England, 35, 2734.)
TOURNAMENTS- The 8th European Individual Championship, an 11 round Swiss System tournament, started last April 2 at Dresden, Germany and has a separate tournament for women. More than 600 participants from 43 nations are competing in this major tournament. Top officers of Fide, led by President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, vice-president Zurab Azmairashvili, Bessel Kok and Prince Alexander of Saxon attended the opening ceremonies. Total prize fund is 200,000 Euros plus an additional contribution by Fide of $80,000(60T for the Open section and 20T for the Women section)
Next online is the Kramnik vs. Leko eight-games Rapid Match at Mislolc, Hungary on April 24-30 followed by another one-on-one again between Kramnik and Aronian at Yerevan, Armenia on May 4-6.
CEPCA NEWS. Mandy Baria has announced that the April tournament of the club will be on the 15th at the Stella Maris Center starting at 1 p.m. The Kiddies and the Juniors will also be held at the same date in the same venue.
(frankpestano@yahoo.com)
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