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At Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2011, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

Group A - Round 13

Ian Nepomniachtchi - Viswanathan Anand ½-½
Vladimir Kramnik - Max. Vachier-Lagrave ½-½
Wang Hao - Hikaru Nakamura ½-½
Alexander Grischuk - Magnus Carlsen ½-½
Levon Aronian - Jan Smeets ½-½
Alexei Shirov - Erwin l'Ami ½-½
Anish Giri - Ruslan Ponomariov ½-½

Group B - Round 13
Suryashekhar Ganguly - Le Quang Liem ½-½

Group c - Round 13
Tania Sachdev - Sebastian Siebrecht 0-1

In group A most of the matches ended without any action ... Nakamura agreed to draw after 22 moves ... In 19 moves Carlsen match ended in draw ... Kramnik match also ended in draw after 22 moves ... Anand tried to win but in end agreed to draw after 38 moves.

In group B Ganguly and Liem accepted draw in just 20 moves ... Tania ended on losing side in her last match of Group C in 36 moves.

American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura won his first Tata (Corus) title ... Anand also finished strongly on second position in this super grandmaster event.

Final Standing of Group A
Hikaru Nakamura - 9 pts
Viswanathan Anand - 8½ pts
Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian - 8 pts
Vladimir Kramnik and Max. Vachier-Lagrave - 7½ pts
Ruslan Ponomariov and Anish Giri - 6½ pts
Ian Nepomniachtchi and Wang Hao - 6 pts
Alexander Grischuk, Jan Smeets and Erwin l'Ami - 4½ pts
Alexei Shirov - 4 pts