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Kasparov wins Linares title

Friday, 11 March , 2005, 15:02
 
Linares, Spain: Viswanathan Anand suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of Michael Adams of England while world's top rated Garry Kasparov of Russia won the title despite being upset by Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the 14th and final round of the Linares Chess tournament that concluded here.

Both Topalov and leader Kasparov scored an identical 8 points out of a possible 12 but the Russian was declared the winner of this edition by virtue of his more number of victories with black.

As per Linares' tradition, a player scoring more number of victories is generally declared a winner in the event of a tie but since Topalov matched Kasparov's four wins after his superlative triumph, the organisers had to consider the number of wins with black.

Kasparov was clearly superior following his three victories with black pieces earlier in the event against local lad Francisco Pons Vallejo and FIDE world champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan and Adams.

Topalov had just one win against Vallejo with black pieces.

Topalov's only loss came against Anand in round two when he was tamed from a balanced position.

Anand finished his campaign on a negative note after losing to Adams.

Final Standing


(The above table gives the Sonneborn-Berger tiebreak results, which is normally used in round robin tournaments.
In Linares another system was in place. Since both players have the same number of points, and the same number of wins (first tiebreak
criterion), the winner is the player with most black wins. Kasparov won three games with black while Topalov had just one black win.
That made Kasparov the overall winner in this tournament.)
 

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