Anand upset

Viswanathan Anand suffered a major setback going down to Russian Alexander Morozevich in the blindfold game of the 7th round of Amber Chess ...

Monaco | March 28, 2004 12:00 AM IST

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Viswanathan Anand suffered a major setback going down to Russian Alexander Morozevich in the blindfold game of the 7th round of Amber Chess here today. The loss proved costly for Anand as with it, the Indian also lost the joint lead and paved way for Evgeny Bareev to emerge as sole leader on 8.5 points following his draw with Vassily Ivanchuk.

Anand, braingames champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia and Hungarian Peter Leko all have 8 points apiece.