Anand fifth; three share crown

Anand and Navarra drew in Ruy Lopez closed and Radjabov played a safe and solid draw with Topalov to move to shared top spot.

Aronian played an aggressive and superb show to beat Dutchman Sergei Tiviakov. For Radjabov, this was one of the best results of his young career.

Vladimir Kramnik outplayed Dutchman Loek Van Wely to go eight points and finish fourth, half a point ahead of Anand.

In Group C, Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi scored a win in last round over China’s talented Hou Yifan. Negi had 7.5 points and ended fourth in a solid field. Negi started the event as fifth seed.

In Group C, Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia who led all through lost his last game to IM Nadezhda Kosintseva with his white pieces. That allowed Michael Krasenkow of Poland to take the title as he beat Zhaoqin Peng in his final round game to total 10.5 points in all. Nepomniachtchi finished second on 10 points Emanuel Berg of Sweden was third on 8 points.

13TH ROUND RESULTS:

Aronian beat Tiviakov; Radjabov drew with Topalov; Kramnik beat Van Wely; Anand drew with Navara; Svidler lost to Karjakin; Ponomariov drew with Motylev; Carlsen drew with Shirov

FINAL STANDINGS:

1) Aronian, Topalov and Radjabov 8.5; 4) Kramnik 8.0;

5) Anand 7.5; 6) Svidler 7.0;

7) Navara and Karjakin 6.5;

9) Ponomariov 6.0; 10) Motylev, Tiviakov and Van Wely 5.0;

13) Carlsen and Shirov 4.5.