Wijk aan Zee 2008 started. The Armageddon has occured at the first day!

Anand,V lost to Radjabov,T with black pieces, Aronjan,L defeated Topalov,V. The young prodigy Magnus Carlsen took the full point from Shakhriar Mamedjarov. The games Adams-Gelfand, Ivanchuk-Polgar, Kramnik-van Wely and Eljanov-Leko all were drawn without great incident.

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