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At Norway 2013 - Round-robin Blitz Tournament, Switzerland

Final Standing
1. Sergey Karjakin (RUS,2767) 6.5/9
2. Magnus Carlsen (NOR,2868) 6.0/9
3. Viswanathan Anand (IND,2783) 6.0/9
4. Hikaru Nakamura (USA,2775) 6.0/9
5. Peter Svidler (RUS,2769) 5.5/9
6. Teimour Radjabov (AZE,2745) 5.0/9
7. Jon Ludvig Hammer (NOR,2608) 3.5/9
8. Wang Hao (CHN,2743) 3.0/9
9. Levon Aronian (ARM,2813) 2.5/9
10. Veselin Topalov (BUL,2793) 1.0/9

Before Norway 2013 tournament organizers decided to play blitz tournament to decide pairing for the first round ... Russian Sergey Karjakin won this blitz tournament and Anand tied for the second place with Carlsen and Nakamura ... Carlsen grabbed the second place in tie-break ... From today round-robin Super tournament is beginning ... Anand is facing Levon Aronian in the first round with White and tomorrow in the second round he is facing his World championship challenger and WR #1 Magnus Carlsen with Black ... And in the third round Anand is facing Veselin Topalov with White, so in first 3 rounds he is facing top 3 rating players of the tournament ... Tough pairing for Anand.