October 15, 2015 10:08 PM

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V Anand finishes 22nd in World Blitz Chess

Former world champion Viswanathan Anand could only finish 22nd in the World Blitz Chess championship, which concluded in Berlin on Thursday. After finishing Day One on a disappointing note with just Six and a Half points out of 11, Anand got the same points getting seven draws and three victories on the final day. The five times world champion will next take part in the Bilbao Final Masters as the defending champion later this month at Bilbao in Spain. Grandmaster P Harikrishna ended as the second best scorer amongst Indians on 12 points, a half point ahead of Krishnan Sasikiran. Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk of Russia emerged as the deserving winner finishing with a flourish that got him eight points out of last nine rounds.The Russian scored an impressive 15.5 points from his 21 rounds, losing three, drawing five and winning the remaining 13 games. World champion in Classical and rapid, Magnus Carlsen of Norway could not keep the momentum ticking on the final day of the event and his 14 points were good for the 6th spot only.

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