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    ANAND HELD BY ARONIAN

    The Hindu
    Dec 12 2011
    India

    World champion Viswanathan Anand's hopes of catching up with his
    rivals have almost ended after a draw with Levon Aronian of Armenia
    at the end of the seventh round of the London Chess Classics here.

    With his fourth draw in six games so far, Anand took his tally to
    seven points in the football-like scoring system in place here. He
    had a solitary victory over Nigel Short of England and a loss against
    Hikaru Nakamura of United States.

    In the open section, National champion Abhijeet Gupta scored a crushing
    victory over Gawain Jones of England to jump into the sole lead with
    seven points out of a possible eight. Grandmaster in the making,
    Sahaj Grover was lucky to score over Bjorn Thorfinnsson of Iceland in
    a keenly contested game. Grover shares the second spot on 6.5 points
    alongside the English trio of Jovanka Houska, Peter Wells and Keith
    Arkell. Meanwhile, in the Classic, the battle for supremacy heated
    up with three decisive games out of a possible four.

    Hikaru Nakamura saw the action from the sidelines as he got a bye. He
    saw as many as three players overtake him on the points table. Topping
    the list was Magnus Carlsen of Norway who scored over out of form
    Michael Adams of England, who was having a torrid time at Olympia.

    Vladimir Kramnik of Russia and Luke McShane of England also joined
    Carlsen atop the table on 12 points following victories over Englishmen
    David Howell and Nigel Short respectively. Nakamura remained on 11
    points while Anand and Aronian inched themselves up to seven points.

    The results: Round 7: Levon Aronian (Arm, 7) drew with V. Anand (Ind,
    7); Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 12) bt Michael Adams (Eng, 3); Vladimir
    Kramnik (Rus, 12) bt David Howell (Eng, 3); Nigel Short (Eng, 4)
    lost to Luke Mcshane (Eng, 12); Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 11) -bye.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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