Anand Wins Champions Showdown
Viswanathan Anand won the Champions Showdown, and won in impressive fashion. He was tied for first after the classical portion, won the Rapid portion outright, and finished just half a point behind Hikaru Nakamura in the blitz. He won overall with 15/24, and only lost one game the entire event, to Nakamura in their final blitz game, in 139 moves, on time in a drawn position. He even left quite a few points on the table, and in slightly better form might have won in a rout.
Hikaru Nakamura had a good event overall too, finishing a point back with 14 points. He finished half a point behind Anand in the classical, a point behind him in the rapid, and won the blitz to come in a very clear second place, three points ahead of Fabiano Caruana and six ahead of Veselin Topalov.