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Morelia-Linares 2008

Morelia-Linares 2008

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Wow... One moment it looked like Magnus would be very lucky if he'd manage a draw, the next moment he had won! He sure has a talent to make his opponents (especially Topalov) blunder!

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All games drawn today, so these are the final results:

Anand - 8.5
Carlsen - 8.0
Aronian - 7.5
Topalov - 7.5
Radjabov - 7.0
Ivanchuk - 6.5
Leko - 5.5
Shirov - 5.5

Interesting how similar the results of several players are to their results last year:

Anand - 8.5
Morozevich - 7.5
Carlsen - 7.5
Aronian - 7.0
Svidler - 7.0
Ivanchuk - 6.5
Topalov - 6.0
Leko - 6.0

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Originally posted by Nordlys
Wow... One moment it looked like Magnus would be very lucky if he'd manage a draw, the next moment he had won! He sure has a talent to make his opponents (especially Topalov) blunder!
That was indeed a truly remarkable game. I guess Topalov fell asleep trusting his material advantage.

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Originally posted by ivanhoe
That was indeed a truly remarkable game. I guess Topalov fell asleep trusting his material advantage.
Topalov is probably having nightmares (or knightmares) about Carlsen by now.