Carlsen won with 31.0/42 (74%), with 28 wins and 6 draws! World Champion Anand was in 2nd place three points behind, in 3rd place was Sergey Karjakin with 25 points, and in 4th was the 14th world champion Vladimir Kramnik with 24.5.
More impressive is Carlsen's record against the other top players. Against players who scored 50% or better (the top 12), he had an amazing '+12' or 17.0/22
After a strong start, 12th world champion Anatoly Karpov faded down the stretch. Karpov was in 3rd place after day 1 (14 rounds), but by the end of the event had fallen to 16th place with 19 points.
Current women's world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk finished in 22nd and last place but actually played fairly well. She was the lowest rated player in the tournament by over 100 points, and well out-performed her rating. She scored wins against such Super GMs as Carlsen, Anand, Grischuk, Morozevich, Aronian, Gashimov, and Juidt Polgar.
on the organization of the tournament is that Veselin Topalov, the official challenger to the world champion and the current world's #1 rated player did not participate. It also would have been great if Kasparov had decided to play, which meant the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th undisputed world champions would have been playing. With Topalov and Kasparov playing, it would have been an even greater tournament!
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