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Hindustan Times, India
May 9 2013
Anand held by Aronian in first round
PTI
Sandnes, Norway, May 09, 2013
World champion Viswanthan Anand could do little with white pieces as
his opponent Levon Aronian of Armenia held him to an easy draw in the
first round of Norway Chess 2013 super tournament that got underway
here.
It turned out to be rather sedate Anand who has got a tough draw in
the tournament. White pieces against most of the top seeds and black
against lower ranked players means that the Indian ace has to be in
top form to deliver the goods and in the opener Aronian was not
troubled much.
Sergey Karjakin of Russia continued from where he had left - winning
the blitz drawing of lots - and put it across Teimour Radjabov of
Azerbaijan whose woes continued after falling hugely in the world
ranking.
Norwegian world number one Magnus Carlsen could not do more than
splitting the point with former world champion Veselin Topalov of
Bulgaria.
May 9 2013
Anand held by Aronian in first round
PTI
Sandnes, Norway, May 09, 2013
World champion Viswanthan Anand could do little with white pieces as
his opponent Levon Aronian of Armenia held him to an easy draw in the
first round of Norway Chess 2013 super tournament that got underway
here.
It turned out to be rather sedate Anand who has got a tough draw in
the tournament. White pieces against most of the top seeds and black
against lower ranked players means that the Indian ace has to be in
top form to deliver the goods and in the opener Aronian was not
troubled much.
Sergey Karjakin of Russia continued from where he had left - winning
the blitz drawing of lots - and put it across Teimour Radjabov of
Azerbaijan whose woes continued after falling hugely in the world
ranking.
Norwegian world number one Magnus Carlsen could not do more than
splitting the point with former world champion Veselin Topalov of
Bulgaria.