{"id":10718,"date":"2012-10-10T07:43:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T07:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=10718"},"modified":"2012-10-10T07:43:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T07:43:38","slug":"anand-plays-sixth-consecutive-draw-at-chess-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=10718","title":{"rendered":"Anand held by Pons at Fifth Chess Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-2825\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/anand.jpg\" width=\"250\" alt=\"anand\" style=\"margin: 6px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/anand.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/anand-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Bilbao (Spain)<\/strong>: World Champion&nbsp;<a href=\"search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Vishwanathan+Anand+&amp;sa=Search\">Vishwanathan Anand<\/a>&nbsp;could not break his winless streak as he played out yet another draw in the&nbsp;<a href=\"search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Final+Masters+Chess+Championship&amp;sa=Search&amp;siteurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiansportsnews.com%2F\">Final Masters Chess Championship<\/a>&nbsp;here.<\/p>\n<p>The second leg of the championship which started after a week\u2019s break failed to bring any respite for the Anand as he signed peace with&nbsp;<a href=\"search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Francisco+Vallejo+Pons&amp;sa=Search&amp;siteurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiansportsnews.com%2F\">Francisco Vallejo Pons<\/a>&nbsp;of Spain. Anand now has drawn all his six matches of the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Anand now has six points from as many games, while&nbsp;<a href=\"search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Fabiano+Caruana&amp;sa=Search\">Fabiano Caruana<\/a>&nbsp;of Italy lead the table with 11 points. Caruana was able to hold on to the lead even though he lost to&nbsp;<a href=\"search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Magnus+Carsen&amp;sa=Search&amp;siteurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiansportsnews.com%2Fsearch.html%3Fcx%3Dpartner-pub-2004395898380537%253A5221044443%26cof%3DFORID%253A10%26ie%3DUTF-8%26q%3DFrancisco%2BVallejo%2BPons%26sa%3DSearch%26siteurl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.indiansportsnews.com%252F\">Magnus Carsen<\/a>&nbsp;of Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Carslen is now on the second spot with nine points.<\/p>\n<p>In another match Levon Aronian of Armenia drew with Sergey Karkajin of Russia and is on the third position with eight points from six matches.<\/p>\n<p>Anand follows him on the fourth position, whereas Karkajin and Pons are on the fifth position with identical four points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Indian Sports News Network<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-2825\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/anand.jpg\" width=\"250\" alt=\"anand\" style=\"margin: 6px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/anand.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/anand-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Bilbao (Spain)<\/strong>: World Champion&nbsp;<a href=\"search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Vishwanathan+Anand+&amp;sa=Search\">Vishwanathan Anand<\/a>&nbsp;could not break his winless streak as he played out yet another draw in the&nbsp;<a href=\"search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Final+Masters+Chess+Championship&amp;sa=Search&amp;siteurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiansportsnews.com%2F\">Final Masters Chess Championship<\/a>&nbsp;here.<\/p>\n<p>The second leg of the championship which started after a week\u2019s break failed to bring any respite for the Anand as he signed peace with&nbsp;<a href=\"search.html?cx=partner-pub-2004395898380537%3A5221044443&amp;cof=FORID%3A10&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=Francisco+Vallejo+Pons&amp;sa=Search&amp;siteurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indiansportsnews.com%2F\">Francisco Vallejo Pons<\/a>&nbsp;of Spain. Anand now has drawn all his six matches of the championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6610,6871,6608,466,6872,1334],"class_list":["post-10718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chess-chess","tag-fabiano-caruana","tag-final-masters-chess-championship","tag-francisco-vallejo-pons","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-magnus-carsen","tag-vishwanathan-anand"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Anand held by Pons at Fifth Chess Masters - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=10718\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anand held by Pons at Fifth Chess Masters - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bilbao (Spain): World Champion&nbsp;Vishwanathan Anand&nbsp;could not break his winless streak as he played out yet another draw in the&nbsp;Final Masters Chess Championship&nbsp;here. 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