Viswanathan Anand Finishes Final In Gashimov Memorial Chess Match | Chess Information

Indian chess ace Viswanathan Anand controlled handiest two wins within the event to complete ultimate within the 7th Vugar Gashimov Memorial chess event on Thursday. His sole win on the second one day of the blitz tournament got here towards Czech Republic’s David Navara in a 70-move marathon in spherical 10. He completed ultimate with 9 issues after seven rounds of fast (involving two mini-matches) and 14 rounds of blitz. The previous international champion, who misplaced two video games — one to Fabiano Caruana (USA) and the opposite to Richard Rapport (Hungary) at the first day of the blitz — suffered just one defeat on Thursday. He went all the way down to Caruana once more.

Anand drew his video games towards Rauf Memedov (Azerbaijan), Rapport, Sergey Karjakin (Russia), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) and Vugar Asadli (Azerbaijan).

Caruana and Rapport completed equivalent on 24 issues following which the American received the Armageddon to take the highest spot.

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Previous within the fast phase, Anand may organize just one win towards Shakriyar Mamedyarov within the 6th spherical.

The Gashimov Memorial event this 12 months was once performed within the fast and blitz structure.