Anand puts rivals in slumber, takes lead at Amber

Former world champion Viswanathan Anand regained sole lead after a long drawn 1.5-0.5 win over Spaniard Alexei Shirov in the seventh round o...

Former world champion Viswanathan Anand regained sole lead after a long drawn 1.5-0.5 win over Spaniard Alexei Shirov in the seventh round of the 12th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess tournament here. With four rounds to go, Anand has 9.5 points in his kitty and leads the overall standings by just half a point over Israeli Grandmaster Boris Gelfand.

The Indian ace also leads in the rapid category with 5.5 points of the possible seven, while Gelfand and Russian GM Vladimir Kramnik share the lead in the blindfold variety with 5.5 points apiece.

Results (round 7):

Blindfold: Viswanathan Anand drew Alexei Shirov (Esp); Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr) drew Vladimir Kramnik (Rus); Alexander Morozevich (Rus) beat Peter Leko (Hun); Boris Gelfand (Isr) beat Evgeny Bareev (Rus); Loek van Wely (Ned) drew Zoltan Almasi (Hun); Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Yug) lost to Veselin Topalov
Rapid: Shirov lost to Anand; Kramnik drew Ivanchuk; Leko drew Morozevich; Bareev drew Gelfand; Almasi drew Van Wely; Topalov beat Ljubojevic.

Standings (after round 7):

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Blindfold: 1-2. Kramnik, Gelfand 5.5 each; 3. Topalov 4.5; 4-5. Leko, Anand 4.0 each; 6-8. Morozevich, Ivanchuk, Van Wely 3.5 each; 9. Almasi 3.0; 10. Shirov 2.5; 11. Bareev, 2.0; 12. Ljubojevic 0.5.
Rapid: 1. Anand 5.5; 2. Bareev 5.0; 3-4. Leko, Morozevich 4.5 each; 5. Topalov 4.0; 6. Gelfand 3.5; 7-9. Kramnik, Almasi, Ivanchuk 3.0 each; 10-11. Shirov, Van Wely 2.5 each; 12. Ljubojevic 1.0.

Overall standings:

1. Anand 9.5; 2. Gelfand 9.0; 3-5. Kramnik, Leko, Topalov 8.5 each; 6. Morozevich 8.0; 7. Bareev 7.0; 8. Ivanchuk 6.5; 9-10. Almasi, Van Wely 6.0; 11. Shirov 5.0; 12. Ljubojevic 1.5.

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