The winner of the Kings Tournament 2012 is Vassily Ivanchuk. After the last round the Ukrainian won the tiebreak rapid match against Veselin Topalov with the score 1,5-0,5 and secured gold. Thus Vassily Ivanchuk repeated his success from 2009 and just like Magnus Carlsen became the victor of Kings Tournament for the second time in history of these tournaments.
The organizers are happy that the games in Bucharest were followed closely by all chess lovers and that Romania once again became the center of the world chess map. Certainly, we’ll do our best and we are hoping to keep the tradition of Kings Tournament in the future as well.
Ivanchuk wins 6th edition of the Kings' Tournament
Ivanchuk - Topalov 1.5 - 0.5 after TieBreaks
Ranking after Round 6
Rank
Name
Rtg.
FED
1
2
3
4
Pct.
TB1
TB2
TB3
1
GM
Topalov Veselin
2769
BUL
***
½½
½½
½ 1
3.5
1
1.0
9.50
GM
Ivanchuk Vassily
2763
UKR
½½
***
½½
1 ½
3.5
1
1.0
9.50
3
GM
Caruana Fabiano
2786
ITA
½½
½½
***
½
3.0
0
0.0
9.00
4
GM
Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter
2668
ROM
½ 0
0 ½
½½
***
2.0
0
0.0
6.50
Tie Break1: The greater number of victories Tie Break2: The results of the players in the same point group#results against Tie Break3: Sonneborn-Berger-Tie-Break variable
