ANAND IS JOINT SIXTH, ARONIAN WINS AMBER

Indian Express
March 29 2008
India

Nice, March 28: 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.