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Anand finishes fourth

Rishon Le Zion (Israel): World No. 2 Viswanathan Anand finished fourth in the World Blitz chess championship which was won by Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk of Russia here. The Russian won the tiebreak game against compatriot Peter Svidler to pocket the coveted title.

After a gruelling 15 rounds, both Grischuk and Svidler tallied an identical 10.5 points and in the ensuing tiebreaker the former proved superior with his white pieces. Scoring 10 points in all, Anand tied for the third spot along with Azerbaijan's Teimour Radjabov but finished fourth overall with his slightly inferior tiebreak.

The $92,500 event was played on a round-robin basis between 16 players with four minutes being allotted to both players and a two-second increment after every move.

Final standings: 1-2: Alexander Grischuk, Peter Svidler (both Rus) 10.5 each; 3-4: Teimour Radjabov (Aze), V Anand (Ind) 10 each; 5-6: Judit Polgar (Hun), Boris Gelfand (Isr) 9.5 each; 7. Etienne Bacrot (Fra) 8; 8: Magnus Carlsen (Nor) 7.5; 9-11: Sergey Erenburg, Emil Sutovsky (both Isr), Merab Gagunashvili (Geo) 7 each. — PTI

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