Last week was a busy time for some of the world's top chess players, most of them being involved in rapid chess exhibition matches. Yesterday, the world chess champion Vishy Anand of India defeated Peter Leko in an eight-game match in Miskolc, Hungary, with the score 5-3. Magnus Carlsen of Norway won yesterday's dramatic final of the XXII Magistral Ciudad de Leon in Leon, Spain, against one of the world's most active chess players, Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, with a 4-3 score. Ivanchuk came to Leon directly from Prague, where he participated in the CEZ Trophy eight-game rapid chess match at the end of May against the top Czech grandmaster David Navara ...

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