Anand Gains Six Elo

Anand Gains Six Elo
By Arvind Aaron

A defeat to Hikaru Nakamura, wins against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Veselin Topalov gave Viswanathan Anand plus one score of 5/9 as he tied for third place and gained six Elo points. The London Chess Classic ended on December 19, 2016.

Wesley So played at a career best 2904 Elo to win the event with 6/9. Fabiano Caruana’s chase for the No.1 position is on and he gained five Elo and climbs from 2823. Carlsen who had retained his title and lost rating looks catchable.

This category 22 event had an average rating of 2785. Four players remained undefeated in the 10-player all-play-all. All players with the exception of Anish won atleast one game.

Final placings: 1 Wesley So (USA) 6/9, 2 Fabiano Caruana (USA) 5.5; 3-5. Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik (Rus), Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 5 each; 6 Anish Giri (Ned) 4.5; 7-9. Levon Aronian (Arm), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra), Michael Adams (Eng) 4 each; 10 Veselin Topalov (Bul) 2.