Anand slays Tiviakov’s dragon

JAN 15: Viswanathan Anand won his first game as the world champion defeating Russian GM Sergei Tiviakov in a Sicilian Dragon in 46 moves i...

JAN 15: Viswanathan Anand won his first game as the world champion defeating Russian GM Sergei Tiviakov in a Sicilian Dragon in 46 moves in the second round of the Corus Super GM tournament at Wijk aan Zee on Sunday. With this, Anand occupied the second position with 1.5 points along with Vladimir Kramnik behind Garry Kasparov who scored two points form his first twogames with black.

Anand tactically outwitted Tiviakov and brought the black King out of its castle. The simplified Queen and rook ending offered practical chances for Anand to try his combination and on the 38th move the Indian won black’s quen for rook which virtually closed the game. Tiviakov laboured for another seven moves before signing the scoresheet.

After Monday’s rest, the highlight of the third round contest will be the clash between Anand and Kasparov on Tuesday.

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Kramnik defeated Loek Van Wely of Netherlands in Grunfeld Defence. Peter Leko drew with Alexei Shirov in Sicilian Richter Rauzer in 28 moves.

Federov unleashed an all-out attack on Kasparov’s King in a Sicilian game. But Kasparov effectively thwarted Federov’s attack and won the game.

Jeroen Piket squandered a good position against Bulgarian Topalov. Russian Morozevich survived the day being two pawns down against Dutch veteran Jan Timman.

Results (Round 2): Anand (1.5) bt Tiviakov (0); Kramnik (1.5) bt Van Wely (.5); Leko (1) drew with Shirov (1.5); Federov (.5) lost to Kasparov (2); Ivanchuk (1) drew with Adams (1); Topalov (1) bt Piket (0); Morozevich (1.5) drew with Jan Timman (1).

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Round 1: Leko drew with Fedorov; Shirov bt Topalov; Piket lost to Morozevich; Timman drew with Kramnik; Van Wely drew with Ivanchuk; Adams drew with Anand; Tiviakov lost to Kasparov.

GAME (Anand-Tiviakov): 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cd4 4.Nd4 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4 0-0 8.Bb3 d6 9.f3 Bd7 10.Qd2 Rc8 11.0-0-0 Nd4 12.Bd4 b5 13.Nd5 Nd5 14.Bg7 Kg7 15.ed5 a5 16.a3 Qb6 17.Rhe1 Rfe8 18.g4 b4 19.a4 Qc5 20.Kb1 e5 21.de6 Be6 22.h4 Bb3 23.cb3 Re1 24.Re1 h5 25.Ka2 hg4 26.fg4 Rh8 27.Qf4 Rh4 28.Rf1 Qe5 29.Qf7+ Kh6 30.Rf6 Rg4 31.Re6 Qg7 32.Qf3 Qd4 33.Qf8+ Kh5 34.Rd6 Qe5 35.Qd8 Rg5 36.Rd7 Kg4 37.Rd1 Qe3 38.Rd4+ Qd4 39.Qd4+ Kh5 40.Qh8+ Kg4 41.Qg7 Kh5 42.Qh7+ Kg4 43.Kb1 Kf5 44.Qf7+ Ke4 45.Qf6 1-0.