October 16, 2010 7:38 PM

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Anand finishes 2nd in Bilbao Final Masters

World Champion Viswanathan Anand has finished second in the Bilbao Final Masters chess tournament scoring eight points. In the sixth and final round of the tournament at Bilbao, Spain, today, Anand played out a hard-fought draw with Magnus Carlsen of Norway.The silver lining for the Indian ace was the fact that he dethroned Carlsen from the number one ranking in Live rating list for the first time since January this year and ended up as the top player in ratings too.Anand will now move to Nanjing in China to take part in another Grand Slam event in which Carlsen will also take part.Vladimir Kramnik of Russia won the Final Masters after settling for an easy draw with Alexei Shirov of Spain. Kramnik scored two wins and four draws in all and ended up at 10 points.With Six points, Carlsen finished third in this category-22 event which was the strongest ever in terms of average rating of participants.Shirov had to be content with fourth place finish and he was the only player who went home win-less.

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