Vishvanathan Anand
wins the blindfold, rapid and combined events at
the 14th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament which took place at the
Monte Carlo in Monaco, 19th-31st March 2005.
The participants were:
Viswanathan Anand g IND 2786, Veselin Topalov g BUL 2757, Vladimir Kramnik g RUS
2754, Peter Leko g HUN 2749,
Alexandr Morozevich g RUS 2741, Peter Svidler g RUS 2735, Alexei Shirov g ESP 2713,
Vassily Ivanchuk g UKR 2711, Evgeny Bareev g RUS 2709, Boris Gelfand g ISR 2696,
Francisco Vallejo Pons g ESP 2686, Loek Van Wely g NED 2679.
As usually the grandmasters will play every day one rapid game and one
blindfold game of about one hour each.
Rest days March 23 and 28.
Final Blindfold
standings:
1 Anand 8.0
2 Ivanchuk 6.0
3 Leko 6.0
4 Topalov 6.0
5 Vallejo Pons 6.0
6 Morozevich 6.0
7 Svidler 5.5
8 Gelfand 5.5
9 Kramnik 5.5
10 Shirov 4.5
11 Van Wely 4.0
12 Bareev 3.0
Final Rapid
standings:
1 Anand 7.5
2 Morozevich 7.0
3 Shirov 6.5
4 Kramnik 6.0
5 Leko 6.0
6 Ivanchuk 6.0
7 Svidler 5.5
8 Bareev 5.0
9 Topalov 5.0
10 Gelfand 4.5
11 Vallejo Pons 3.5
12 Van Wely 3.5
Final Combined
standings:
1 Anand 15.5
2 Morozevich 13.0
3 Ivanchuk 12.0
4 Leko 12.0
5 Kramnik 11.5
6 Svidler 11.0
7 Topalov 11.0
8 Shirov 11.0
9 Gelfand 10.0
10 Vallejo Pons 9.5
11 Bareev 8.0
12 Van Wely 7.5
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