Chess News -
At Morelia-Linares 2008, Mexico & Spain

Round 14 - Friday, March 7th
Anand ½-½ Veselin Topalov
Peter Leko ½-½ Levon Aronian
Magnus Carlsen ½-½ Teimour Radjabov
Alexei Shirov ½-½ Vassily Ivanchuk


Final Standing after 14 Rounds -
1 Vishwanathan Anand IND 8½ pts
2 Magnus Carlsen NOR 8 pts
T3 Levon Aronian ARM 7½ pts
T3 Veselin Topalov BUL 7½ pts
5 Teimour Radjabov AZE 7 pts
6 Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 6½ pts
T7 Peter Leko HUN 5½ pts
T7 Alexei Shirov ESP 5½ pts

Anand played 23 moves quick draw against Topalov ... And as all other games ended in draw including 69 moves Carlsen and Radjabov match, Anand retained his ½ pt advantage to win Morelia-Linares Championship title.

This was Anand's 3rd Linares title and Anand became only 2nd player after Garry Kasparov, who defended his title successfully.
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Tennis News -
At $15K Ivory Coast F1, Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire

[QF] (7) RASTOGI Karan (IND,514) l SANON Valentin (CIV,629) 67(4) 61 16

Doubles -
[SF] (1) RASTOGI Karan (IND)/ SATSCHKO Alexander (GER) l BELYAEV Ilya (RUS)/ KROTIOUK Sergei (RUS) 62 67(5) (12)14

Karan gave fight to ex-top 300 player, Sanon, who is doing comeback after injury break ... In doubles also Karan and Alexander missed opportunity to finish the match in 2nd set only.