Another draw for Viswanathan Anand,remains tied-fourth

It was Ruy Lopez for the third time in the tournament for Anand,who was playing with white against Karjakin. The Russian had accumulated four wins from the first four rounds before falling to a loss against Carlsen in round five. For most parts of the game,white enjoyed a small advantage with black’s queenside pawn structure fractured with doubled and isolated pawns. However,there was no way for Anand to break through to take advantage and it looked like the game would end in a draw.

Around the 40th move however,there were a few inaccuracies from both players,who were perhaps looking to go for the win,for various reasons – Karjakin to recover from his loss in the previous round and Anand to get his campaign going.

Anand had chances to claim the doubled pawn on c. Even if he did,it is not clear whether it would have been enough for a win,considering black’s advanced a pawn would have given Karjakin enough play. It remained unexplored though and the position petered out to a draw,signed after 57 moves.

Radjabov blunders

Carlsen and Radjabov seemed to be heading to a draw in their English game heading for a draw until the Azeri blundered deep in the end game under time pressure to hand the Norwegian the advantage. It was a game that was very similar to their late contest at the Candidates Tournament,with Carlsen squeezing the position until his opponent blundered in the endgame. Carlsen started the tournament with four straight draws,but with two wins in as many games as the tournament enters the final stretch.

Round six,results:

Levon Aronian 2.5 bt Ludvig Hammer 1.5,Hikaru Nakamura 3 drew with Peter Svidler 2.5,Veselin Topalov 2 drew with Wabg Hao 1.5,Viswanathan Anand 2.5 drew with Sergey Karjakin 4,Magnus Carlsen 3 vs Teimour Radjabov 2.5

Round seven,pairings:

Wang Hao vs Levon Aronian,Ludvig Hammer vs Magnus Carlsen,Peter Svidler vs Veselin Topalov,Teimour Radjabov vs Viswanathan Anand,Sergey Karjakin vs Hikaru Nakamura