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NOW ARONIAN HOLDS ANAND
Deccan Herald
Oct 10 2012
Bangalore, India
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out his seventh draw in as
many games, signing peace with world No 2 Levon Aronian of Armenia
in the seventh round of the fifth Final Chess Masters here.
With his seventh draw, nothing changed for Anand as he remained fourth
in the six-player double round-robin tournament and the Indian ace
can now look up to the two white games coming his way out of the last
three even though catching up at the top seems difficult.
Magnus Carlsen continued to excel in the Bilbao Leg of the super
tournament and cruised home to his second win in as many games here.
At the receiving end was lowest-ranked Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain
who appeared all at sea against the highest ranked player in the world.
The victory enabled Carlsen to catch Fabiano Caruana of Italy at the
top of the table and if his form is any indication, the Norwegian
seems set to win another big tournament. Caruana played out a draw
with Russian Sergey Karjakin.
With just three rounds to come, Caruana and Carlsen are now tied at
12 points apiece under the football-like scoring system in place here
that gives three points for a win and one for a draw.
A distant third at this stage is Aronian on nine points while Anand
stands fourth with seven draws in as many games.
Karjakin steered clear of Vallejo Pons on five points and he is now
clear fifth in the six players meet. Vallejo Pons is now in the cellar
with just four draws to his credit after seven games.
The event that started at Sao Paulo in Brazil and is set to conclude
here, has begun to heat up now and the reason for that is Carlsen.
With a shocking first round loss against Caruana, the Norwegian looked
out of sorts when the event was held at Sao Paulo but once back on
his familiar European terrain, Carlsen looks the guy to catch while
Caruana has had little to show here.
Anand, however, could not do much yet again but the draw was a just
result coming easy against Aronian who played white.
Having seen Aronian's way of treating the Ragozine defence in a
different fashion earlier against Vallejo Pons, Anand was tempted to
try the opening himself and it turned out to be a perfect decision.
Aronian, who recently guided Armenia to a gold medal in the Chess
Olympiad, failed to get any dynamics rolling in his favour and after
his sedate treatment, Anand had little to worry as the pieces flew
off the board almost in a heap.
The players reached an opposite coloured Bishops endgame as a result
of the exchange melee and there was no reason for either player to
continue after just 33 moves.
Results (Round VII): Levon Aronian (Arm, 9) drew Viswanathan Anand
(Ind, 7); Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 12) bt Francisco Vallejo Pons (Esp,
4); Fabiano Caruana (Ita, 12) drew Sergey Karjakin (Rus, 5).
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/284479/now-aronian-holds-anand.html
From: A. Papazian
Deccan Herald
Oct 10 2012
Bangalore, India
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out his seventh draw in as
many games, signing peace with world No 2 Levon Aronian of Armenia
in the seventh round of the fifth Final Chess Masters here.
With his seventh draw, nothing changed for Anand as he remained fourth
in the six-player double round-robin tournament and the Indian ace
can now look up to the two white games coming his way out of the last
three even though catching up at the top seems difficult.
Magnus Carlsen continued to excel in the Bilbao Leg of the super
tournament and cruised home to his second win in as many games here.
At the receiving end was lowest-ranked Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain
who appeared all at sea against the highest ranked player in the world.
The victory enabled Carlsen to catch Fabiano Caruana of Italy at the
top of the table and if his form is any indication, the Norwegian
seems set to win another big tournament. Caruana played out a draw
with Russian Sergey Karjakin.
With just three rounds to come, Caruana and Carlsen are now tied at
12 points apiece under the football-like scoring system in place here
that gives three points for a win and one for a draw.
A distant third at this stage is Aronian on nine points while Anand
stands fourth with seven draws in as many games.
Karjakin steered clear of Vallejo Pons on five points and he is now
clear fifth in the six players meet. Vallejo Pons is now in the cellar
with just four draws to his credit after seven games.
The event that started at Sao Paulo in Brazil and is set to conclude
here, has begun to heat up now and the reason for that is Carlsen.
With a shocking first round loss against Caruana, the Norwegian looked
out of sorts when the event was held at Sao Paulo but once back on
his familiar European terrain, Carlsen looks the guy to catch while
Caruana has had little to show here.
Anand, however, could not do much yet again but the draw was a just
result coming easy against Aronian who played white.
Having seen Aronian's way of treating the Ragozine defence in a
different fashion earlier against Vallejo Pons, Anand was tempted to
try the opening himself and it turned out to be a perfect decision.
Aronian, who recently guided Armenia to a gold medal in the Chess
Olympiad, failed to get any dynamics rolling in his favour and after
his sedate treatment, Anand had little to worry as the pieces flew
off the board almost in a heap.
The players reached an opposite coloured Bishops endgame as a result
of the exchange melee and there was no reason for either player to
continue after just 33 moves.
Results (Round VII): Levon Aronian (Arm, 9) drew Viswanathan Anand
(Ind, 7); Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 12) bt Francisco Vallejo Pons (Esp,
4); Fabiano Caruana (Ita, 12) drew Sergey Karjakin (Rus, 5).
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/284479/now-aronian-holds-anand.html
From: A. Papazian