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Anand, looking for some match practice ahead of his title defence in the Mainz Chess Classic against Azerbaijan's Teimour Rajabov that comes up next week, scored 7.5 points from nine rounds. Anand won six games and drew with Pia Cramling, Vadim Milov and Vladimir Malakhov.
Ivan Sokolov, Ruslan Ponomariov and Oleg Korneev (all 7.5 pts) finished in that order behind Anand.
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