Quiz winners round 7, 8 and 9

The winners of the quiz the last three rounds was:

Round 7: Kürşat Karataş from İstanbul Turkey
Round 8: Mark Schneider from Los Altos Hills, USA
Round 9: Anders Ostergaard from Skorping, Denmark

See the questions here

Congratulations to all of the winners! Hope you will enjoy the magasine! And thank you for following the live commentary of Norway Chess!

Karjakin wins Norway Chess 2013

Sergey Karjakin has just won Norway Chess 2013 after a draw against Veselin Topalov.

Results round 9:

ARONIAN Levon ½ -½ CARLSEN Magnus
WANG Hao 1-0 ANAND Viswanathan
HAMMER Jon Ludvig 0-1 NAKAMURA Hikaru
RADJABOV Teimour ½ -½  SVIDLER Peter
KARJAKIN Sergey ½ -½ TOPALOV Veselin

 

Round report by Hans Arild Runde will follow.

Tie-break rules

In case more players tie for first with an equal number of points a blitz match will decide who wins the tournament. The blitz match will consist of 2 games with 4 minutes + 2 seconds (per move) per player.

If it´s still tied an Armageddon game will decide the outcome. In the Armageddon game the player with the white pieces will have 5 minutes + 2 seconds (per move) while the player with black pieces will have 4 minutes + 2 seconds. If the game ends as a draw Black wins.