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NEW DELHI: A resurgent Viswanathan Anand scored a crushing 30-move victory over Vladimir Kramnik in the blindfold section to become the sole leader midway through, the eighth round of the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament at Nice, France, on Sunday. Anand’s dominating victory with white pieces against the fellow overnight leader raised his tally to 10 points, half a point clear of Armenias Levon Aronian. The Russian gave up when facing an inevitable checkmate. Kramnik plays white against Anand when the two face-off in their rapid encounter later in the evening. On Saturday, Anand defeated Sergey Karjakin 1.5-0.5 to share the lead with Kramnik at nine points. Anand won the blindfold game with black pieces in 33 moves and returned to draw the rapid clash in 61 moves. Kramnik capitalised on a late blunder by Aronian in their rapid game to join Anand at the top at nine points. . The results (seventh round): Blindfold: Sergey Karjakin (Ukr, 1.5) lost to Viswanathan Anand (4.5); Wang Yue (Chn, 2) lost to Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 5.5); Vladimir Kramnik (Rus, 5) drew with Levon Aronian (Arm, 4); Alexander Morozevich (4) drew with Peter Leko (Hun, 4.5); Veselin Topalov (Bul, 3.5) drew with Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr, 2); Teimour Radjabov (Aze, 3.5) bt Gata Kamsky (USA, 2). Rapid: Anand (4.5) drew with Karjakin (3.5); Carlsen (3) bt Wang Yue (2.5); Aronian (4.5) lost to Kramnik (4); Leko (3) bt Morozevich (3); Ivanchuk (3) drew with Topalov (3.5); Kamsky (5) bt Radjabov (2.5). Overall standing (after seven rounds): 1-2. Anand, Kramnik (9 each), 3-4. Aronian, Carlsen (8.5 each), 5. Leko (7.5), 6-8. Kamsky, Morozevich, Topalov (7 each), 9. Radjabov (6),10-11. Ivanchuk, Karjakin (5 each), 12. Wang Yue (4.5).
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