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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

Gata Kamsky of USA held on to his lead against Alexei Shirov of Spain in the finals of World Cup Chess 2007 being held at Khanty Mansiysk. The final is a four game affair with normal time, then rapid, blitz games to break a tie. Today's drawn game: The winner here meets Veselin Topalov for a chance to challenge the winner of Anand and Kramnik. The results so far are as follows: Game 1 - Draw after a brief struggle. Shirov cannot break the solid Kamsky's defence. Game 2- Kamsky wins a thrilling game which could have swung either way. Shirov had chances only if Kamsky made minor errors but Kamsky displayed his strength of will to prevail Game 3- Is again a draw. Shirov tries for 41 moves before the peace treaty is signed. Tomorrow, Shirov must win with black pieces to tie the match and move to the tie-breaks. On current form, Kamsky is expected to at least draw and hang to his lead and hence win the title, but with the Alexei "Fire on the board" Shirov, you never can be...