Anand loses again at Tal Memorial
Agencies
Moscow, June 21, 2013
World champion Viswanthan Anand’s poor run continued as he suffered his second straight loss, succumbing to American Hikaru Nakamura in the sixth round of the Tal memorial chess tournament. After losing to world No 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the previous round, Anand’s loss against Nakamura only added to the woes of the Indian.
The loss proved extremely costly in fact as Anand was pushed to eighth spot in world rankings and was staring at his worst world ranking for almost two decades now.
Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
anand is hiding preparation, force , hability, in order to surprise mc in the world champ… very cleaver
It’s a ploy. He’s playing mediocre openings to get practice defending inferior positions and to avoid giving Carlsen any insight into his opening preparation.
my thoughts are the same as the other two have expressed.