Monaco

The world’s strongest chess players gladdens their fans in Monaco with a vivacious creative play, while enjoying an ‘entertaining’ format of the competition (rapid chess + blindfold chess). There is everything – spectacular combinations, opening arguments and mutual mistakes. IM Nikolai Vlasov covers the most spectacular fragments of the games.
Games annotated by IM N. VLASSOV

Final standings:
1. Anand – 14.5; 2-3. Leko, Morozevich – 13.5; 4. Kramnik, Topalov – 13.0; 6. Gelfand – 12.0; 7. Shirov – 11.5; 8. Bareev – 11.0; 9. Almasi – 9.5; 10. Ivanchuk – 9.0; 11. Van Wely – 8.0; 12. Ljubojevic – 3.5.

Zoltan Almasi