Former World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik, kicked back the years by turning in one of his best performances of late to win the Bilbao Masters Grand Slam Final in Spain. Kramnik's +2 winning score of 10/18 (using the Bilibao football scoring system - 4/6 normal scoring system) not only gave the Russian #1 the title ahead of World Champion Vishy Anand, but also boosted his Elo rating by 11 points.

The tournament also saw the fall of Magnus Carlsen, as the Norwegian teenager's opening two losses (to Kramnik and Anand, coupled with his three losses at the Olympiad) dropped him to second place in Hans Arnild Runde's Live Rating List - with Anand now set to officially hold both titles of world champion and world #1 again come the publication of next month's official November 1st FIDE list.

And straight from Bilbao, Anand and Carlsen get set to do battle yet again as they join Veselin Topalov, Vugar Gashimov, Wang Yue and Etienne Bacrot for the Pearl Spring Masters in Nanjing, China, which starts at 3am ICC time on Monday, 18 October! Chess.FM will be on the air for live coverage of this event with their expert Grandmaster broadcast team - and with the Tal Memorial and London Chess Classic also being broadcast live on Chess.FM, now is the time to join ICC by clicking here to get all the best in move-by-move grandmaster commentary.

The Chess.FM team also provide a Game of the Day service. Below you will find the GOTD table from Bilbao. GOTD is an ICC member-only service but, apart from a free 5 min preview of each, we have included in the newsletter for free GM Jon Ludvig Hammer's GOTD from Bilbao - click here to view. To view all the GOTDs in full, join ICC now.

Final standings

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