Indian chess Grand Master and five time World Champion Viswanathan Anand won bronze at the King Salman World Blitz Championship at Riyadh, two days after he won the World Rapid Chess Championship. It was World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen who won the tournament, scoring 16 points out of the maximum possible 21 points, as Sergey Karjakin came in second with 14.5 points. On Saturday, the second day of the championship, Anand won five games and drew five. His only loss in the championship was to the Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi.

Carlsen on the other hand had lost two games in the championship and won the title well ahead of the others to prove his superiority over competition. Anand too had seven points and his 7.5 points in the last 10 games was good enough for a tied 2nd place with Sergey Karjakin of Russia. Karjakin was a bit out of shape as he could muster just 5.5 points on the final day and ended on 14.5 points like Anand.

Anand started the 12th round with a victory over Etienne Bacrot of France and also defeated Vladimir Fedoseev of Russia, Baadur Jobava of Georgia and Tigran Petrosian of Armenia. Among other Indians in the fray, P Harikrishna and Vidit Gujrathi did well to end on 12.5 points apiece, B Adhiban ended on 11 while Surya Shekhar Ganguly and S P Sethuraman finished with 10 points apiece.