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	There is a new post on The Chess Mind.  You can read it at:

http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1204920022.shtml

It begins:

	With four players having a chance to at least tie
	for first, the preconditions were in place for a
	thrilling last round. This might have seemed
	especially likely, given the very low percentage of
	draws (by super-tournament standards) so far, but
	as it turned out “safety first” was the rule of
	the day. With a win over Veselin Topalov, world
	champion Viswanathan Anand would have clinched
	clear first, but his choice to play to meet
	Topalov’s Najdorf with 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.Bg5
	indicated his desire for a quiet life. The game
	followed yesterday’s tragic Radjabov-Shirov game
	through 11.O-O-O, but here...