It's that wonderful time again. The Nanjing tournament is officially over. As I said yesterday, these games meant nothing in the way of determining the winner of the event, as that was done yesterday with a victory by Magnus over Topalov, who had black today against Wang. No, the big match today was the one to determine second place, as Anand, who had white, defeated Bacrot(B), who resigned after 33...Be2. The longest match of the day goes to Magnus, as he had white against Gashimov, who agreed to a draw after 71...Bxg8. Here are the games, starting with Magnus/Gashimov, this game opening up with the Four Knights Game: 4.Bb5 Bb4:

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   Next is Wang/Topalov, who after 41...Rc3+ got Wang to resign. This game opened up with Grunfeld: 4.Bb4

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   Finally, Anand/Bacrot, which after the Nimzo-Indian: Rubinstein: Main Line: 7...Nc6 8.a3 Bxc3 9.bxc3 dxc4, ended in a resignation by Bacrot after 33...Be2. Here it is:

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     And now, the final standings. Anand takes second place after his victory today against Bacrot.

   I added the full tournament PGN to the chess.com/Downloads section. Enjoy.

   -Mark

Good work Mark, thank you for the great job you have done here.

  You're welcome kco. This has been a very fun tournament for me to cover. Watching all of these games has been a blast. But I think after I'm done with the SPICE Cup, I'm taking a little break until the London Chess Classic in December. Unless I get the itch before the L.C.C. 

   -Mark

London Chess Classic should be interesting

  Yeah it sure will. Magnus, Anand, Short, Kramnik just to name a few. It's going to be a great tournament and we'll see if Magnus can keep his winning ways going until then. This is not a group of players to start playing badly against, so hopefully Mags won't go sour again.

   -Mark

Interesting games. But I am wondering why you posted:

Finally, Anand/Bacrot, which after the Nimzo-Indian: Rubinstein: Main Line: 7...Nc6 8.a3 Bxc3 9.bxc3 dxc4, ended in a 32 move draw after 32...Be2. Here it is:

Why is the result 1-0 to Anand??

  WHOOPS!!!  Will be fixed

  -Mark

  I got my results from Fritz 12/playchess.com. I fixed the post and just again looked at F-12 and the result was what I fixed, so everything should be fine.

   -Mark

 Not now, Mark has fixed the caption to read right!!!

  Yup, everything is fixed guys. It was a little after 4 AM when I did this, so I was still half asleep  LOL everything is ok now, be gentle 

  -Mark

Mark, sorry to put another spanner in the works. Usually, the person playing white is anounced first and the result shows that white won. So, I am assuming that Anand played white. But it seems to me that Black was playing the much stronger and had white in a difficult situation. So, why is it that black resigned?

maybe black lost on time ?

   Hyannis - Yeah Vishy did have white in this game. I'm looking at the game now with Fritz 12 and analyzing it to see if there is something that made Bacrot resign, because yes, his position looks and seems much better than Anand does. When the game was resigned by Bacrot, the clocks read 28 minutes for Anand and 9'32" for Bacrot. Once the Fritz 12 analysis of the game is done, I'll pop it up here

   -Mark

  kco - nope. Bacrot had some time left but was down 18'30" on the clocks time difference, I'm sure that played a part in it

   -Mark

   Reb - thanks. I'm still going to do the analysis and post it anyways, just to show it to everyone 

   -Mark

   Well, F-12 didn't give me much in the way of the analysis, but like Reb said via chessbase.com, Anand just kept picking away at Bacrot until he couldn't take it anymore. Here is the analyzed game anyway for those who want to see it:

   -Mark

my analysis say it give white +5.49 next move maybe 34.a6 a good chance to promote