Levon Aronian is the winner of the 17th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament. The 25-year-old Armenian already secured first place in the rapid section and overall tournament victory in yesterday’s round. Today he drew both his games against Peter Leko to finish on 14Ѕ points.

All results and final standings bellow:

The organizers of one of the high ELO rated chess tournament - MTel masters 2008 anounced "Play Like Topalov" again. The Rules are simple -
Chess lovers all over the world will be required to sign up and during the games will have to guess the moves of the foreign World Champion Veselin Topalov before he will have moved. One guessed move gains 1 point. The highest score will be awarded. The results will be held in daily and final standings.

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The 17th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament takes place March 15 - March 27 at the five-star luxury Hotel Palais de la Mediterranйe, in Nice.

The Amber tournament is organised by the Association Max Euwe in Monaco and generously sponsored by Mr and Mrs Van Oosterom.

Standings - Rapid, Blindfold, Combined...

The 17th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament is held from March 15 to March 27 (last round) at the five-star luxury Hotel Palais de la Mediterranйe, ideally situated at the famous Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Twelve top grandmasters from ten different countries take part and the total prize-fund is 216,000 Euro. The Amber tournament is organised by the Association Max Euwe in Monaco and generously sponsored by Mr and Mrs Van Oosterom. The Amber tournament is one of the most prestigious chess events in the world and the only one in which half of the games are played blindfold, i.e. without the players seeing board and pieces.
The participants in the 17th edition are (in brackets behind their name and country is given their place in the current world rankings):

FIDE finalized the six cities for the Grand Prix and the representative nominations by the host cities. There are no FIDE Top 4 rating players, but however the players who have signed up make these tournaments to be very exiting.
Shedule and participants tables:

Indian grandmaster Viswanatan Anand won Morelia-Linares 2008 super chess tournament with half a point clear of second - Norvegian Magnus Carlsen.
Anand finished on a draw his last game against Veselin Topalov and had 8Ѕ points.
All results and final standings on a cross table:

Veselin Topalov and Tejmur Radjabov won their games against Peter Leko and Alexey Shirov today.

All results from The 13th round:

GM Ivanchuk - GM Anand 1/2-1/2 B86
GM Topalov - GM Leko 1-0 C88
GM Radjabov - GM Shirov 1-0 B92
GM Aronian - GM Carlsen 1/2-1/2 E17

After a blunder of foreign World Chess Champion - Veselin Topalov, Norvegian Supergrandmaster Magnus Carlsen won the game between them. Topalov first had a winning position, and after a blunder in a drawn position he even lost. And so Carlsen was the only winner of the round, as Anand-Leko, Ivanchuk-Radjabov and Shirov-Aronian ended in a draw.

Carlsen - Topalov 1-0
Shirov - Aronian Ѕ-Ѕ
Anand - Leko Ѕ-Ѕ
Ivanchuk - Radjabov Ѕ-Ѕ

Morelia - Linares 2008 - Results round 9:
1/2 Aronian, Levon - Anand, Viswanathan
1/2 Topalov, Veselin - Radjabov, Teimour
1-0 Carlsen, Magnus - Shirov, Alexei
0-1 Leko, Peter - Ivanchuk, Vassily

Morelia - Linares 2008 - Today's games (round 10):
Anand, Viswanathan - Carlsen, Magnus
Shirov, Alexei - Leko, Peter
Ivanchuk, Vassily - Topalov, Veselin
Radjabov, Teimour - Aronian, Levon

Standings after round 9...

Morelia - Linares 2008 - Results round 7:
1/2 Anand, Viswanathan - Ivanchuk, Vassily
1-0 Shirov, Alexei - Radjabov, Teimour
1-0 Carlsen, Magnus - Aronian, Levon
0-1 Leko, Peter - Topalov, Veselin

Standings after round 7 and full schedule in Linares...