ARONIAN WINS TITLE
Hindu
March 28 2008
India
NEW DELHI: Viswanathan Anand won in blindfold but lost the rapid game
to Israel’s Boris Gelfand even as Armenia’s Levon Aronian won the
Amber blindfold and rapid chess title with a round to spare in Nice,
France, on Wednesday.
Aronian, who drew his 10th-round games with Vladimir Kramnik, opened
up an unsurpassable 2.5 point lead at the top.
The results: 10th round: Blindfold: Boris Gelfand (Isr, 3) lost to
Viswanathan Anand (5.5); Leok van Wely (Ned, 4.5) drew with Veselin
Topalov (Bul, 5.5); Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr, 4.5) lost to Shakhriyar
Mamedyarov (Aze, 3.5); Sergey Karjakin (Ukr, 4.5) drew with Alexander
Morozevich (Rus, 6); Levon Aronian (Arm, 6) drew with Vladimir Kramnik
(Rus, 6); Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 5.5) drew with Peter Leko (Hun, 5.5).
Rapid: Anand (4.5) lost to Gelfand (5); Topalov (5.5) bt Wely (3.5);
Mamedyarov (4.5) drew with Ivanchuk (5.5); Morozevich (4) bt Karjakin
(4); Kramnik (5) drew with Aronian (7.5); Leko (5.5) drew with Carlsen
(5.5).
Combined standings: 1. Aronian (13.5), 2-5. Carlsen, Kramnik, Leko,
Topalov (11 each), 6-8. Anand, Ivanchuk, Morozevich (10 each), 9.
Karjakin (8.5), 10-12. Gelfand, Mamedyarov and Wely (8 each).
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