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This is an archive article published on March 22, 2005

Anand crushes Topalov to remain on top

Viswanathan Anand continued with his devastating form and scored a 2-0 victory over Bulgarian Veselin Topalov in the second round of the 14t...

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Viswanathan Anand continued with his devastating form and scored a 2-0 victory over Bulgarian Veselin Topalov in the second round of the 14th edition of Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament here.

Anand gave an aesthetic display of positional and tactical chess in two games of the day and remained the sole leader with an absolute score of 4/4.

The Indian ace, who started with a 2-0 drubbing of Spaniard Alexei Shirov in round one, now sits pretty with a slender half point lead over nearest rival Peter Svidler of Russia, who beat Israeli Boris Gelfand to move to 3.5 points.

With nine rounds still to come with one blindfold and one rapid game in each round, it might just be a race between Svidler and Anand from now onwards.

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