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Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine in the sixth round of the Morelia-Linares chess tournament here on Sunday.

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Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine in the sixth round of the Morelia-Linares chess tournament here on Sunday.

The lead positions remained unchanged at the fag end of the Morelia leg of the super tournament as the day failed to produce a single decisive game out of a possible four.

In the other games, Magnus Carlsen took a quick draw with Peter Leko of Hungary, Levon Aronian signed peace with top seed Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria and the Russian duel between Alexander Morozevich and Peter Svidler had the same fate.

With only one round remaining in the Morelia leg 8212; the event shifts to Linares in Spain thereafter8212; Carlsen remained in sole lead on four points while Anand and Aronian remained on his heels half a point behind.

 

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