The experienced P Harikrishna, on the other hand, accepted a draw against lower-rated Constantin Lupulescu of Romania to advance to round four with a 1. Former world chess champion Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by a fighting Vladimir Kramnik in the third game of their four-game No-Castling match for the Sparkassen Chess Trophy here. Former world champion Viswanathan Anand played out a draw against Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik in the second game of their four-game match for the Sparkassen Trophy here on Thursday.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand defeated Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik in the first game of their four-game match for the Sparkassen Trophy here.
In a chat with TOI, Anand speaks about his preparation for the event and his apprehensions before featuring in the tournament. Former world champion Viswanathan Anand defeated long-time rival Garry Kasparov for the second consecutive time, in the 13th round of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour's Blitz event on Sunday. Former world champion Viswanathan Anand started with a fluent win over Dutch Grandmaster Jorden van Foreest before faltering against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the second round of the rapid event in the Croatia Grand Chess Tour tournament which began here Wednesday.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand will resume his storied rivalry with Russian legend Garry Kasparov in the Croatia Grand Chess Tour Rapid and Blitz tournament beginning on Wednesday, returning to over-the-board action after more than a year. Abhimanyu Mishra, who recently became the youngest chess grandmaster in history, said that his ultimate goal is to be the World Champion.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand on Tuesday said it is time to move and "get closure" on the controversy that erupted after his loss to entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath in an online simultaneous charity event. Former Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra on Tuesday said the episode involving Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath and chess player Viswanathan Anand can give everyone a lesson on how to follow rules, integrity and honesty. Five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand on Monday said that the career span of players has become shorter than earlier times because of the high level of hard work arising out of intense competition.
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In effect, however, the tournament was a Candidates tournament, as the defending champion Karpov automatically had a spot in the finals. He was immediately set against Karpov, who won the first game. Anand recovered in game two to tie the match before falling behind again in game four. Needing a win in the sixth game to force a rapid tiebreak, Anand used the rare Trompowsky Attack 1. Bg5 and won in 42 moves.
When not playing for the championship in the s, Anand was a regular at super tournaments. His best year of the decade from that perspective was , when he finished first outright in Linares and tied for first at Wijk aan Zee.
Missing from the competition were Kasparov, Karpov, and newly-minted classical champion Vladimir Kramnik , thus making Anand the top-rated player in the knockout tournament. Anand and Shirov drew the first game, but Anand won three in a row to claim the title easily. In , however, FIDE eliminated the massive knockout turnout originally instituted in and replaced it with an eight-player double round-robin similar to the Candidates tournament format at present.
Anand won five of his 14 games while drawing Veselin Topalov twice. However, Topalov did not lose a single game, while winning one against every player besides Anand. Anand, meanwhile, dropped games against Alexander Morozevich and Kasimdzhanov. The next year, , was a monumental one in chess with the championship reunified after 13 long years as Kramnik defeated Topalov in a match. Because Anand had lost the year before, he had to watch as Topalov fell, but his time would soon come. Later that year Anand won the world championship title by a full point in another double round-robin.
In the first half of the tournament, Anand won three games—defeating Levon Aronian in the second round, Svidler in the fifth, and Alexander Grischuk in the seventh—without taking a loss. After drawing his eighth through tenth games, Anand then won the sole victory of round 11 by defeating Morozevich. As Kramnik had not yet lost a one-on-one match for the world championship, Anand faced him the very next year to defend the title.
Anand had now won the undisputed world championship in both a tournament and match format, more than cementing the FIDE crown he had won to begin the decade. Anand successfully defended his title twice more, in and , as the world championship cycle settled into a more regular routine.
Looming throughout the early part of the decade, however, was Magnus Carlsen , who had not participated in the cycle despite having already achieved 1 status on the rating list. In , however, he did play in the Candidates tournament, which he won via tiebreaks over Kramnik. Anand defended his title well at first, drawing the first four games of the match. However, he lost games five and six, and there was no miraculous comeback. After two draws Carlsen won game nine and drew game 10, and Anand had lost the title.
The next month Anand turned 44 years old, but his chess career was far from over. Just four months after the championship match in November came the next Candidates match. Every player won exactly two or three games, but Anand distanced himself from the field by not losing a single game.
Nonetheless, while the championship match was closer than the match, Carlsen proved too strong a champion. The Norwegian won game two before Anand took game three below to tie the match.
It would prove his only win to date against Carlsen in a world championship match. Carlsen took the sixth game and then the eleventh to clinch the championship. The above price is only for personalised video messages and not valid for brand promotions or corporate communication videos.
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