World champion Viswanathan Anand produced a masterly display to crush young challenger Norway’s Magnus Carlsen 3-1 to win the 13th Grenkeleasing rapid world chess championship at Mainz, Germany, on Sunday.
In the best-of-four rapid games, Anand won the first two games in 50 moves and then drew the third in 56 moves to make sure of the title. In the inconsequential fourth game, the players agreed to a draw in just 11 moves.Great run
This was Anand’s 11th title-victory in the tournament and ninth on the trot. Anand won in 1997, 1998 and 2000 before the chess festival moved from Frankfurt to Mainz. Since then, Anand has tamed Vladimir Kramnik (2001), Ruslan Ponomariov (2002), Judit Polgar (2003), Alexei Shirov (2004), Alexander Grischuk (2005), Teimour Radjabov (2006), Levon Aronian (2007) and added Carlsen to the list this year.
On Sunday, Anand punished the teenager in the first game that followed the opening moves of Sicilian Defence. In the middle game, Carlsen chose to give up his queen for a rook but that did not help his cause.
In the second game, Anand played black and seized the initiative early in Catalan. Again, it was Carlsen who was on the defensive. Anand went 2-0 up when Carlsen gave up as he could not prevent the loss of a rook.
The third game saw Anand settle for a draw after pressing for victory with an extra pawn. With the title decided, the players drew the fourth game quickly.
For the third place, Alexander Morozevich defeated Hungary’s Judit Polgar in the fourth game for a 2.5-1.5 victory. Kore holds Rodshtein
In the World junior chess championship, which began at Gaziantop, Greece on Sunday, Akshayraj Kore surprisingly held second seed Maxim Rodshtein of Israel in the first round.
However, GM G.N. Gopal lost the opener, while Abhijeet Gupta was held in the second. Parimarjan Negi, seeded 26, won both his matches to be among the leaders.
Similarly, in the girls’ section, top seed D. Harika and Padmini Rout won two games each to set up an interesting third-round clash.
The results:
Rapid world championship (final): Viswanathan Anand (3) bt Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 1); Game 1: Anand bt Carlsen in 50 moves; Game 2: Carlsen lost to Anand in 50; Game 3: Anand drew with Carlsen in 56 moves; Game 4: Carlsen drew with Anand in 11 moves.
For third place: Alexander Morozevich (Rus, 2.5) bt Judit Polgar (Hun, 1.5).
World junior championship (involving Indians):
Open (second round): Deep Sengupta (1.5) drew with Wesley So (Phi, 1.5); Ashwin Jayaram (1) lost to Martyn Kravtsiv (Ukr, 2); Daniel Baratoshi (Rom, 1.5) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (1.5); Parimarjan Negi (2) bt Daniele Vocaturo (Ita, 1); Davit Bendize (Geo, 1.5) drew with S. Arun Prasad (1.5); Akshat Nukin (Kaz, 0.5) lost to Akshayraj Kore (1.5); G.N. Gopal (1) bt Tyler Hughes (USA, 0); P. Karthikeyan (1) bt Slavisa Ilic (Bih, 0); Vishnu Prasanna (1) bt Atsuhiko Kobaysashi (Jpn, 0); Eray Gurcan (Tur, 0) lost to Sahaj Grover (1).
First round: Rauf Mamedov (Aze) bt Karthikeyan; Kore drew with Maxim Rodshtein (Isr); Nguyen Ngoc Troung Son (Vie) bt Vishnu; Orkhan Abdulov (Aze) bt Gopal; Grover lost to David Howell (Eng); Abhijeet bt Ivan Serenac (Srb); Gareth Oliver (Aus) lost to Negi; Arun bt Can Ertan (Tur); Atsuhiko Kobayashi (Jpn) lost to Deep; Pratish Ramsurrup (RSA) lost to Ashwin.
Girls (second round): Anya Corke (Hkg, 1) lost to D. Harika (2); Nafisa Muminova (Uzb, 1.5) drew with Mary Ann Gomes (1.5); Zoja Severiukhina (Rus, 1.5) drew with Kruttika Nadig (1.5); Soumya Swaminathan (1) lost to Sona Pertlova (Cze, 2); R. Preethi (1) lost to Gulmira Dauletova (Kaz, 2); Silvia-Raluca Sgircea (Rou, 1) lost to Padmini Rout (2).
First round: Harika bt Madina Davletbayeva (Kaz); Mary bt Jovena Eric (Srb); Marsel Efroimski (Isr) lost to Soumya; Padmini bt Daleen Wiid (RSA); Kruttika bt Liria Caetano Garcia (Bra); Saadet Kaya (Tur) lost to Preethi.
Kavala International (fifth round): Vladislav Nevednichy (Rou, 3) drew with Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (3); Alexander Zubarev (Ukr, 3) drew with V. Saravanan (3); Slavoljub Marjanovic (Srb, 3.5) drew with Prathamesh Mokal (2.5); S. Satyapragyan (3.5) bt Ekaterini Fakhiridou (Gre, 2.5).
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In the best-of-four rapid games, Anand won the first two games in 50 moves and then drew the third in 56 moves to make sure of the title. In the inconsequential fourth game, the players agreed to a draw in just 11 moves.Great run
This was Anand’s 11th title-victory in the tournament and ninth on the trot. Anand won in 1997, 1998 and 2000 before the chess festival moved from Frankfurt to Mainz. Since then, Anand has tamed Vladimir Kramnik (2001), Ruslan Ponomariov (2002), Judit Polgar (2003), Alexei Shirov (2004), Alexander Grischuk (2005), Teimour Radjabov (2006), Levon Aronian (2007) and added Carlsen to the list this year.
On Sunday, Anand punished the teenager in the first game that followed the opening moves of Sicilian Defence. In the middle game, Carlsen chose to give up his queen for a rook but that did not help his cause.
In the second game, Anand played black and seized the initiative early in Catalan. Again, it was Carlsen who was on the defensive. Anand went 2-0 up when Carlsen gave up as he could not prevent the loss of a rook.
The third game saw Anand settle for a draw after pressing for victory with an extra pawn. With the title decided, the players drew the fourth game quickly.
For the third place, Alexander Morozevich defeated Hungary’s Judit Polgar in the fourth game for a 2.5-1.5 victory. Kore holds Rodshtein
In the World junior chess championship, which began at Gaziantop, Greece on Sunday, Akshayraj Kore surprisingly held second seed Maxim Rodshtein of Israel in the first round.
However, GM G.N. Gopal lost the opener, while Abhijeet Gupta was held in the second. Parimarjan Negi, seeded 26, won both his matches to be among the leaders.
Similarly, in the girls’ section, top seed D. Harika and Padmini Rout won two games each to set up an interesting third-round clash.
The results:
Rapid world championship (final): Viswanathan Anand (3) bt Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 1); Game 1: Anand bt Carlsen in 50 moves; Game 2: Carlsen lost to Anand in 50; Game 3: Anand drew with Carlsen in 56 moves; Game 4: Carlsen drew with Anand in 11 moves.
For third place: Alexander Morozevich (Rus, 2.5) bt Judit Polgar (Hun, 1.5).
World junior championship (involving Indians):
Open (second round): Deep Sengupta (1.5) drew with Wesley So (Phi, 1.5); Ashwin Jayaram (1) lost to Martyn Kravtsiv (Ukr, 2); Daniel Baratoshi (Rom, 1.5) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (1.5); Parimarjan Negi (2) bt Daniele Vocaturo (Ita, 1); Davit Bendize (Geo, 1.5) drew with S. Arun Prasad (1.5); Akshat Nukin (Kaz, 0.5) lost to Akshayraj Kore (1.5); G.N. Gopal (1) bt Tyler Hughes (USA, 0); P. Karthikeyan (1) bt Slavisa Ilic (Bih, 0); Vishnu Prasanna (1) bt Atsuhiko Kobaysashi (Jpn, 0); Eray Gurcan (Tur, 0) lost to Sahaj Grover (1).
First round: Rauf Mamedov (Aze) bt Karthikeyan; Kore drew with Maxim Rodshtein (Isr); Nguyen Ngoc Troung Son (Vie) bt Vishnu; Orkhan Abdulov (Aze) bt Gopal; Grover lost to David Howell (Eng); Abhijeet bt Ivan Serenac (Srb); Gareth Oliver (Aus) lost to Negi; Arun bt Can Ertan (Tur); Atsuhiko Kobayashi (Jpn) lost to Deep; Pratish Ramsurrup (RSA) lost to Ashwin.
Girls (second round): Anya Corke (Hkg, 1) lost to D. Harika (2); Nafisa Muminova (Uzb, 1.5) drew with Mary Ann Gomes (1.5); Zoja Severiukhina (Rus, 1.5) drew with Kruttika Nadig (1.5); Soumya Swaminathan (1) lost to Sona Pertlova (Cze, 2); R. Preethi (1) lost to Gulmira Dauletova (Kaz, 2); Silvia-Raluca Sgircea (Rou, 1) lost to Padmini Rout (2).
First round: Harika bt Madina Davletbayeva (Kaz); Mary bt Jovena Eric (Srb); Marsel Efroimski (Isr) lost to Soumya; Padmini bt Daleen Wiid (RSA); Kruttika bt Liria Caetano Garcia (Bra); Saadet Kaya (Tur) lost to Preethi.
Kavala International (fifth round): Vladislav Nevednichy (Rou, 3) drew with Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (3); Alexander Zubarev (Ukr, 3) drew with V. Saravanan (3); Slavoljub Marjanovic (Srb, 3.5) drew with Prathamesh Mokal (2.5); S. Satyapragyan (3.5) bt Ekaterini Fakhiridou (Gre, 2.5).
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