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This is an archive article published on March 29, 2008

Anand is joint sixth, Aronian wins Amber

World champion Viswanathan Anand played out two draws with Loek van Wely of the Netherlands...

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World champion Viswanathan Anand played out two draws with Loek van Wely of the Netherlands to finish overall tied sixth after the final round of Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament here.

Levon Aronian of Armenia won the tournament after two easy draw with Hungarian Peter Leko. The Armenian ended up with an impressive 14.5 points out of a possible 22 games played in this unique event that featured one blindfold and one rapid game in each round. It was a four-way tie for the second spot in the combined standings with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Leko sharing the honours on 12 points each.

Anand tied for the sixth spot alongside Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine with both ending with 11 points in all.

Apart from winning the combined title with a 2.5 points lead, Aronian also won the rapid section with a 1.5 margin.

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