Anand plays draw with Levon Aronian at London Chess Classic
Posted on: 05 Dec 2012, 01:38 PM
London: World Champion Viswanathan Anand failed to capitalise on chances that came his way and played out a draw with tail-ender Levon Aronian of Armenia in the third round of the London Chess Classic.
Hunting for his first victory in a Classical Chess game since the last World Championship in May earlier this year, Anand got a better position with an extra pawn against Aronian but his opponent fought valiantly to split the points in the end.
World number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway played out a draw with co-leader Vladimir Kramnik of Russia while Michael Adams coasted to his second victory in as many games at the expense of top woman player Judit Polgar of Hungary.
In the other game of the day, debutant Englishman Gawain Jones shared the point with Hikaru Nakamura of United States.
Carlsen and Kramnik stayed ahead of the field with seven points apiece from their three games under the Soccer-like scoring system in place here. The two leaders are now followed solely by Adams who has scored six points from two games and has an extra game in hand, having received his bye in the nine-player-eight-games tournament.
Hikaru Nakamura slipped to the fourth spot on four points with one win, one draw and lone loss and Anand and Jones are now in joint fifth spot on two points apiece with a couple of draws. Polgar, Aronian and Luke McShane of England are in joint seventh spot with just one point in their kitty.
After two back-to-back loses, Aronian was under tremendous pressure to score his first point in the tournament. The Armenian is also under threat to lose his number two ranking as Kramnik is on the threshold of overtaking him.
This was probably the reason that Aronian was prompted to go in for the Exchange variation in the Slav defense that has the reputation for being extremely solid, safe and yet white can press for some advantage.
Source: http://post.jagran.com
Vishy is the greatest world champion ever. But he’ll lose his crown to Nakamura next year.
Nakamura? Are you drunk?
A washed up Vishy will lose to Carlsen, soon to the greatest chess player ever.
I’m sorry, but no matter how many times they say it in these articles, I’ll still have no clue what the heck 3 pts win / 1 pt draw has to do with soccer. I thought this was called the Sofia rules?
why are they calling it soccer rules. Simple. They would be reminded of soccer than sofia/topalov/danialov etc..