Anand sparkles after early blues,beats Arkadi

Former world champion Viswanthan Anand warded off his blues and scored an emphatic victory over Grandmaster Arkadi Naiditsch of Germany in t...

Former world champion Viswanthan Anand warded off his blues and scored an emphatic victory over Grandmaster Arkadi Naiditsch of Germany in the fifth round of the Dortmund Sparkassen chess meet here.

Grandmaster Viktor Bologan of Moldova continued to lead the tables after getting an easy draw against youngest participant Timour Radjabov of Azerbaijan.

Bologan took his tally to a remarkable four points out of a possible five and is likely to maintain his full point superiority over nearest contender Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik of Russia who was engrossed in a tense battle against GM Peter Leko of Hungary when reports last came in.

Anand took his tally to two points and will need to score heavily in the rounds to come if he has to be in contention for top honours in this six-players double round-robin tournament that is played on category 18 as per FIDE’s charts. Naiditsch remained on two points after bowing to Anand while Radjabov moved to the same score after his draw. Leko was on 1.5 but his game against Kamnik was still on and could get him a full point.

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