Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine drew his last two games to claim first prize in the Kings chess tournament in Bazna, Romania. Ivanchuk finished with an outstanding score of 7-3 in the double round robin. Boris Gelfand of Israel took second prize at 6-4, followed by Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan and Alexey Shirov of Spain at 5 1/2 -4 1/2 . Former U.S. chess champion Gata Kamsky and the Romanian representative, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, shared last place with winless 3-7 scores. Ivanchuk, one of the most exciting and least consistent chess grandmasters, emphatically ended a slump that cost him more than 80 rating points since November. The poor result of Kamsky ...

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