Viswanathan Anand wins Bronze medal in World Blitz Championship

In a double delight for Indians, Viswanathan Anand ended this year with a spectacular performance—Gold medal in World Rapid and Bronze medal in World Blitz Championship.

The King Salman World Blitz Chess Championship concluded yesterday in Riyadh with Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Nana Dzagnidze of Georgia emerging champions of their respective section.

Point and a half behind Magnus Carlsen were World Rapid Champion Viswanathan Anand and Sergey Karjakin. Anand settled for Bronze as Karjakin grabbed the silver medal on a better tie-break score.

Anand started the 12th round with a victory over Bacrot Etienne of France and also defeated Vladimir Fedoseev of Russia, Baadur Jobava of Georgia and Tigran Petrosian of Armenia. The icing on the cake, however, was the tense final round where Anand showed his class to beat Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.

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Now, with the New Year coming, the five-time World Champion said that he will be celebrating the occasion with his family. In a tweet, he also said that he is keeping the medals safe as his wife Aruna Anand had asked him to do so.

World Blitz 2017 Championship. Open section. Pairings / Results. Round 21
Bo.	SNo.			Name	Rtg	Pts	Res.	Pts		Name	Rating		SNo.
1	2		GM	Aronian Levon	2863	13.5	½ – ½	15.5	GM	Carlsen Magnus *)	2986		1
2	21		GM	Grischuk Alexander	2725	13	0 – 1	13.5	GM	Karjakin Sergey	2854		3
3	25		GM	Yu Yangyi	2701	13	½ – ½	13.5	GM	Wang Hao	2737		19
4	4		GM	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	2853	13	0 – 1	13.5	GM	Anand Viswanathan	2736		20
5	23		GM	Petrosian Tigran L.	2705	13	½ – ½	13	GM	Svidler Peter	2797		9

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