Zurich 2015: Aronian, Caruana and Anand "Win" the Blitz
Friday, February 13, 2015 at 4:01PM
Dennis Monokroussos in Levon Aronian, Zurich 2015

In fact the blitz event was won only by Levon Aronian, scoring an undefeated 4/5, but as the primary aim in the blitz was to finish in the top 3 and thereby acquire an extra White game in the classical tournament starting tomorrow, Fabiano Caruana and Viswanathan Anand were in that important sense also winners by virtue of their second-place tie with 3.5 points apiece. Hikaru Nakamura finished with 2 points, while Vladimir Kramnik and Sergey Karjakin tied for last with just a single point each to their name.

Pairing numbers were received and pairings were made, and this is what we have to look forward to tomorrow:

Tournament site here.

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