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Game 9 Drawn after Anand misses Chances
The 9th game of the World Championship match in Sofia ended in a draw after Viswanathan Anand missed various wins.
The World Champion Viswanathan Anand and the Challenger Veselin Topalov entered the Nimzo-Indian defence, Rubinstein variation, avoiding the previous dispute in Catalan. Topalov forced the position where his opponent has isolated Queen's pawn, but more space to maneuver. Anand's team came up first with a novelty - 18.Nh3 to force Black to concede some weaknesses on dark-squares. Anand was in mild time pressure and his 40.Rh8+ was probably a bit hasty, allowing the Black King to escape to the queenside and leaving the Rook out of play for the time being.
But he quickly regrouped forces and after 46. h5! renewed the threats against Black King.The game was a heroic fight that lasted 83 moves, when Veselin Topalov once again claimed a threefold repetition
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