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This is an archive article published on August 18, 2007
Anand falls in final
VISWANATHAN Anand fought back hard but Armenian Levona Aronian proved to be too good, beating the Indian Grandmaster in tiebreaker in a thrilling final to clinch the Chess 960 World Championships.
VISWANATHAN Anand fought back hard but Armenian Levona Aronian proved to be too good, beating the Indian Grandmaster in tiebreaker in a thrilling final to clinch the Chess 960 World Championships.
Playing this variant of the game for the first time Anand fought from behind to level the scores 2-2 after the rapid games. Aronian, however, produced a scintillating performance in the shoot-out to score 1.5-0.5 to lift the title.
It will be time for some normal chess again as Anand will start his campaign for the 10th overall title in Chess Classics Rapid. All these four players will play the rapid contest on similar lines and Anand is a huge favourite.
In the 960 open chess tournament that began yesterday, India8217;s second highest rated player K Sasikiran came out impressive with a 4.5/5 start. Other Indians in the fray also had a reasonable start as former World Junior champion P Harikrishna ended the first day on 4 points while Parimarjan Negi scored 3 on debut.
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