On Monday, the winner of the 7th Anatoly Karpov Tournament in the Russian town of Poykovsky was decided. In the final round, Spaniard Alexei Shirov defeated Russian chess player Alexei Dreev with the white pieces and became the sole winner of the tournament. The Spaniard scored six points.
Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov drew with Russian Evgeny Najer in the final round and shared 2nd-5th places with three other grandmasters with 5 points.