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ANAND SCORED HIS FIRST WIN AT CORUS
World
Chess Champion Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand beat Alexie Shirov to register his
first win in the 10th round game at Corus Chess Championship
After drawing 9 games in as many rounds, India’s Super Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand scored his first win against Spanish Grandmaster Alexie Shirov. Playing with White Anand opened with e4 and Shirov replied with e5 and the game was fought on Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence lines. Both the players blundered in the middle game but Anand was quick to recover , He finally beat Shirov but only from a lost position. Shirov left himself with too little time on the run up to the first time.
In
Group B Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi some
how managed to draw his game against Chinese Grandmaster NI HUA. While Pentala
Harikrishna lost to Dutch
Player
Reinderman.
In
Group C Abhijeet Gupta lost while World
Jr Girls champion WGM Somaya Swaminathan finally registered her first win of
the championship.
In
the main group GM Vladimir Kramnik drew with
Vassily Ivanchuk but jumpn off d
to the top position followed by Magnus Carlsen on the 2nd spot and Anand
with 5.5 points on the fourth
place
