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Vishy Anand won the Morelia half of the Morelia-Linares tourney. First Half standings: 1. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2799 4½ 2. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2755 4 3. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2780 4 4. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2739 3½ 5. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2733 3½ 6. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2735 3 7. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2751 3 8. Lékó, Peter g HUN 2753 2½

Russian prodigy Ian Nepomniatchi is the sole leader at Aeroflot after the eighth round. While he beat GM Le Quang Liem, the others leaders fell back after drawing their games. One very interesting progess is the level of play by 13 year old Hou Yifan. She has gathered 4.5 points so far and has played very strong GMs, most of them just around 2600 or above that mark ! Watch out for her. She will soon be in the top 100 of the world and should challenge Judit Polgar in just a couple of years. Aeroflot Open Moscow Round 8 Standings: 1 Nepomniachtchi, Ian GM RUS 2600 6.5 2 Motylev, Alexander GM RUS 2644 6.0 3 Dreev, Alexey GM RUS 2633 6.0 4 Volokitin, Andrei GM UKR 2674 5.5 5 Guseinov, Gadir GM AZE 2617 5.5 6 Rodshtein, Maxim GM ISR 2614 5.5 7 Timofeev, Artyom GM RUS 2664 5.0 8 Amonatov, Farrukh GM TJK 2649 5.0 9 Predojevic, Borki GM BIH 2641 5.0 10 Asrian, Karen GM ARM 2621 5.0

World champion Vishy Anand leads after the fifth round of the Morelia Linares chess tournament. Standings after 5th round: 1. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2799 3½ 2892 2. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2739 3 2836 3. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2755 2½ 2760 4. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2780 2½ 2742 5. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2733 2½ 2767 6. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2735 2 2692 7. Lékó, Peter g HUN 2753 2 2682 8. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2751 2 2676

Past winners at Linares * 1990,92,93,97,99,2001,02 Garry Kasparov * 1998,2007 Viswanathan Anand * 1991,1995 Vassily Ivanchuk * 1994 Anatoly Karpov * 2000 Vladimir Kramnik / Garry Kasparov * 2003 Péter Lékó / Vladimir Kramnik * 2004 Vladimir Kramnik * 2005 Garry Kasparov / Veselin Topalov * 2006 Levon Aronian

The eagerly awaited annual Morelia Linares chess tournament of 2008 starts this week. Players are: V Anand 2799 V Topalov 2780 A Shirov 2755 P Leko 2753 V Ivanchuk 2751 L Aronian 2739 T Radjabov 2735 M Carlsen 2733 We will try to give some live comments as the tourney progresses.

Artyom Timofeev won the Moscow Open chess tournament of 2008. 1 GM Timofeev Artyom RUS 2664 7.5 2 GM Riazantsev Alexander RUS 2628 7.0 3 GM Volkov Sergey RUS 2623 7.0 4 GM Efimenko Zahar UKR 2638 7.0 5 GM Lastin Alexander RUS 2604 7.0 6 GM Jobava Baadur GEO 2643 7.0 7 GM Inarkiev Ernesto RUS 2681 7.0 8 GM Kazhgaleyev Murtas KAZ 2594 7.0 9 GM Moiseenko Alexander UKR 2643 7.0 10 GM Kurnosov Igor RUS 2577 7.0