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Anand finishes joint third

NEW DELHI: World champion Viswanathan Anand missed a possible win against arch-rival Vladimir Kramnik and with it, a place to tie for the honours in the Corus chess tournament at concluded at Wijk ann Zee, near Amsterdam, on Sunday.

Anand, playing white, tried valiantly for 61 moves in what turned out to be the longest game of the 13th round and settled for a draw. A tally of 7.5 points gave Anand the third spot jointly with Teimour Radjabov.

The results (13th round):

Group ‘A’: Viswanathan Anand drew with Vladimir Kramnik (Rus); Magnus Carlsen (Nor) drew with Teimour Radjabov (Aze); Judit Polgar (Hun) drew with Levon Aronian (Arm); Veselin Topalov (Bul) drew with Michael Adams (Eng); Boris Gelfand (Isr) bt Pavel Eljanov (Ukr); Peter Leko (Hun) bt Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze); Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr) drew with Loek van Wely (Ned).

Standings: 1-2. Aronian and Carlsen (8 points each); 3-4. Anand and Radjabov (7.5 each); 5-6. Leko and Ivanchuk (7 each); 7-8. Kramnik and Adams (6.5 each); 9-11. Topalov, Judit and Mamedyarov (6 each); 12-14. Eljanov, Gelfand and Wely (5 each)

Group ‘B’: Etienne Bacrot (Fra) drew with P. Hari Krishna; K. Humpy drew with Sergei Movsesian (Svk); Ian Nepomniachtchi (Rus) drew with Nigel Short (Eng); Erwin L’Ami (Ned) drew with Jan Smeets (Ned); Gabriel Sargissian (Arm) bt Wouter Spoelman (Ned); Ivan Cheparinov (Bul) bt Daniel Stellwagen (Ned); Michal Krasenkow (Pol) drew with Hou Yifan (Chn).

Standings: 1. Movesesian (9.5); 2-3. Bacrot and Short (8.5 each); 4. Hari (7.5); 5. Nepomniachtchi (7); 6. Cheparinov (6.5); 7-10. Yifan, Stellwagen, Smeets and L’Ami (6 each); 11. Humpy (5.5); 12-13. Sargissian and Krasenkow (5 each); 14. Spoelman (4).

Group ‘C’: Fabiano Caruana (Ita) bt Parimarjan Negi; Dmitri Reinderman (Ned) drew with Mark van der Werf (Ned); Pontus Carlssson (Swe) bt Friso Nijboer (Ned); Arik Braun (Ger) bt Anna Ushenina (Ukr); John van der Wiel (Ned) bt Li Shilong (Chn); Efstratios Grivas (Gre) bt Peng Zhaoqin (Ned); Dennis Ruijgrok (Ned) lost to Irina Krush (USA).

Standings: 1. Caruana (10); 2-3. Parimarjan and Reinderman (8 each); 4. Carlsson (7.5); 5-8. Nijboer, Braun, Wiel and Krush (7 each); 9. Werf (6.5); 10-11. Li and Grivas (6 each); 12-13. Ushenina and Peng (4.5 each); 14. Ruijgrok (2).

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