The XIX Cuidad de Leon chess tournament , June 8th - 12th in Leon, Spain
/Images/Players/Small/anand.jpg" align="left" alt="Viswanathan Anand"> Viswanathan Anand became the winner of the XIX Cuidad de Leon chess tournament which took place June 8th - 12th in Leon, Spain.
Players: Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Paco Vallejo, Lazaro Bruzon. They played in the modality of active chess. There were 2 semi-finals and the 2 winners played in the final. All games were played with 20 minutes for the whole game, with an increment of 10 seconds after each move. The semi-finals and final consisted in 4 games each. In case of a final draw, there was a tie-break in form of blitz games (5 minutes for each player).
/News/2006/Leon/results.html"> Results
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/Java/2006/Leon/leon.pgn"> Games in PGN
Live games: http://www.diariodeleon.es/especiales/2006/ajedrez/index.jsp