Anand-draws with Carlsen at Corus 2010

World Champion Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand  drew in a short 19 moves   game against World No one GM Magnus Carlsen in the 6^th Round of the ongoing CORUS Chess Championship at Wijk Aan Zee in Holland.

 

India’s Super Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand  and  Norwegian Grandmaster  Magnus Carlsen had a quick draw .Playing with white Anand  opened with e4 and  Carlsen replied with c5. However later in the opening moves    Carlsen Surprised Anand when he took the game towards Sicilienne dragon.  Anand played safe and  ended the game to a quick  draw.

Grandmaster Nigel Short  cut short the winning streak of Alexi Shirov by drawing the 6^th round game. However with 5.5 points Shirov is still leading the championship.

It was an easy victory of Russian Granmaster Vladimir Kramnik over the local Hero Van Wely.

In Group B  India’s Parimarjan Negi , who won his 5^th round game could not face the onslaught of his opponent L’ Ami and surrendered. In the other B group game Pentala Harikrishna played a long and tiring game  against Akobian whom  Parimarjan Negi defeated in the 5^th Round game. Akobian came well prepared and forced  Harikrishna  to accept a draw.

In the group C match GM Abhijeet gupta came out victorious against Italian Opponent  Daniele Vocaturo. Later after the game Abhijeet Spoke about his 2^nd Victory

However  World Jr Girls Champion Somaya Swaminathan of India  failed again and lost her game to  Van Kampen.

In the 7^th Round Anand will take on  Italian Young Grandmaster Fabio Caruana while  Parimarjan and Harikrishna will meet each other in Group B blog comments powered by Disqus

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