RIYADH: Viswanathan Anand continued his superb run bagging a bronze within the World Blitz Chess Championship following his gold winning efficiency within the Rapid phase best a couple of days again.
After ending the primary day of the Blitz class on a disappointing observe when he suffered a loss by the hands of Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia, Anand was a class act at the ultimate day as he won in opposition to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France.
World Classical champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway proved his mettle as he carved out win after win at the ultimate day.
Coming into the final day, Carlsen had seven points from 11 rounds and the champion ended with an overall tally of sixteen points scoring a whopping nine/10 at the ultimate day.
Anand too had seven points and his 7.five points within the closing 10 games was just right enough for a tied 2nd position with Sergey Karjakin of Russia.
Karjakin was somewhat off form as he could muster simply five.five points at the ultimate day and ended on 14.five points like Anand.
This in reality was a outstanding effort from Anand who had finished closing within the London Chess Classic earlier this month.
The five-time World Champion in Classical class proved his detractors improper and has now finished the year on an actual high.
Anand began the 12th spherical with a victory over Etienne Bacrot of France and in addition defeated Vladimir Fedoseev of Russia, Baadur Jobava of Georgia and Tigran Petrosian of Armenia.
The icing at the cake then again was the hectic ultimate spherical where Anand another time confirmed his steely nerves to beat Vachier Lagrave.
Carlsen simply demolished everybody who crossed his trail. The Norwegian had a two-point lead coming in to the final spherical and a draw with Aronian secured his gold medal with 1.five points lead.
Among other Indians within the fray, P Harikrishna and Vidit Gujrathi did well to end on 12.five points apiece, B Adhiban ended on 11 while Surya Shekhar Ganguly and S P Sethuraman finished with 10 points apiece.
After ending the primary day of the Blitz class on a disappointing observe when he suffered a loss by the hands of Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia, Anand was a class act at the ultimate day as he won in opposition to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France.
World Classical champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway proved his mettle as he carved out win after win at the ultimate day.
Coming into the final day, Carlsen had seven points from 11 rounds and the champion ended with an overall tally of sixteen points scoring a whopping nine/10 at the ultimate day.
Anand too had seven points and his 7.five points within the closing 10 games was just right enough for a tied 2nd position with Sergey Karjakin of Russia.
Karjakin was somewhat off form as he could muster simply five.five points at the ultimate day and ended on 14.five points like Anand.
This in reality was a outstanding effort from Anand who had finished closing within the London Chess Classic earlier this month.
The five-time World Champion in Classical class proved his detractors improper and has now finished the year on an actual high.
Anand began the 12th spherical with a victory over Etienne Bacrot of France and in addition defeated Vladimir Fedoseev of Russia, Baadur Jobava of Georgia and Tigran Petrosian of Armenia.
The icing at the cake then again was the hectic ultimate spherical where Anand another time confirmed his steely nerves to beat Vachier Lagrave.
Carlsen simply demolished everybody who crossed his trail. The Norwegian had a two-point lead coming in to the final spherical and a draw with Aronian secured his gold medal with 1.five points lead.
Among other Indians within the fray, P Harikrishna and Vidit Gujrathi did well to end on 12.five points apiece, B Adhiban ended on 11 while Surya Shekhar Ganguly and S P Sethuraman finished with 10 points apiece.
Viswanathan Anand wins bronze at World Blitz Chess Championship
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December 31, 2017
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