In the eleventh and final round, Levon Aronian drew in both the games against Topalov to win the 18th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament. The Armenian grandmaster, survived scary moments in his blindfold game against Veselin Topalov and next comfortably drew the rapid game to take the title. Report with games and videos.Second place was shared by Vishy Anand and Vladimir Kramnik. The World Champion defeated Wang Yue 1½-½, while his predecessor routed Peter Leko 2-0.In the blindfold competition three players shared first place. Magnus Carlsen, who had long dominated the competition, lost his last game and this allowed Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik to catch up with him.The rapid competition also ended in a three-way tie for first. This year the best rapid players were Vishy Anand, Levon Aronian and Gata Kamsky.
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