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M-Tel Masters 2008

The 2008 M-Tel Masters was held 8–18 May. Vassily Ivanchuk won by a wide margin. Ivanchuk won his first five games, lost no games, and had a positive score against every other player. Veselin Topalov, who had won the tournament the three previous years, was second.

	Participant	1	2	3	4	5	6	Points
1	Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR)	* *	1 ½	1 ½	1 1	1 ½	1 ½	8
2	Veselin Topalov (BUL)	0 ½	* *	½ ½	1 1	1 0	1 1	6½
3	Teimour Radjabov (AZE)	0 ½	½ ½	* *	½ ½	½ 1	½ 1	5½
4	Ivan Cheparinov (BUL)	0 0	0 0	½ ½	* *	1 1	½ ½	4
5	Bu Xiangzhi (CHN)	0 ½	0 1	½ 0	0 0	* *	½ ½	3
5	Levon Aronian (ARM)	0 ½	0 0	½ 0	½ ½	½ ½	* *	3