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Morelia-Linares 2008

The Morelia-Linares tournament is taking place from February 15th to 23rd February in Morelia, Mexico, and from 28th February to 7th March in Linares, Spain. The first half was won by Vishy Anand, ahead of Alexei Shirov and Veselin Topalov. This was the final standings:

Here are some interesting statistical facts – wins, losses, draws, percentage draws, white wins, black wins, white losses, black losses:

The overall draw rate in this tournament was sensationally low: just 46%, with 13 games drawn, eight white and seven black wins. The lowest draw coefficient – by far – was achieved by Veselin Topalov with 28%, the highest by Shirov, Radjabov and Ivanchuk with 57%. Anand and Topalov won the most games, Peter Leko lost the most. Note that Anand won all his games with black and none with white.

Second half

The second half of the event runs from February 28th to March 7th, 2008. It is taking place in the Theatro Cervantes in the Centro Histórica de la Cuidad Linares. The rounds start at 16:00 local time (= CET, 20:30h Chennai, 18:00 Moscow, 15:00 GMT/London, 10 a.m. New York). You can find the starting time at your home location here.

Schedule and results

Live coverage on Playchess

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Links Official web site (with live coverage) All games in PGN ChessBase Reports from Morelia 2008 ChessBase Reports from Morelia 2007 ChessBase Reports from Morelia 2006 The games are being broadcast live on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download ChessBase Light, which gives you immediate access. You can also use it to read, replay and analyse the PGN games. Download free PGN reader ChessBase Light