{"id":1217,"date":"2011-12-02T17:09:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2011-12-02T17:09:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:09:41","slug":"anand-all-set-for-london-chess-classic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"Anand all set for London Chess Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi: <\/strong>World Chess Champion and NIIT Mind Champion  Viswanathan Anand will participate in the London Chess Classic 2011, the  last major Classical event of this year. Touted as the toughest ever  event to be hosted in the UK, the Chess Classic comprises of nine  heavyweights of the game taking on each other once, in a Round Robin  format. This incidentally in all probability will be Anand\u2019s last  Classical engagement before he takes on Challenger Boris Gelfand of  Israel in the World Chess championship title Match in May 2012 at  Russia.<\/p>\n<p> The top four highest rated players in the World, Magnus Carlsen of  Norway (2826), V Anand (2811), Levon Aronian (2802) of Armenia, Vladimir  Kramnik (2800) of Russia along with Hikaru Nakamura (2758) of USA along  with the British brigade of Michael Adams (2724), Nigel Short (2698),  Luke McShane (2671) and David Howell (2633) will fight it out under  classical time control where 3 points will be awarded for a victory and  one point for a draw. The Sofia Rule will also be in place and will curb  short, agreed draws. Then games will begin 3.00PM GMT and 8.30PM IST.<\/p>\n<p> The prize fund is Euros 160,000. There will be a prize of Euros 1000  everyday for the best played game. The odd number of players in the  Classic ensures that each player has a bye in every round and this  player will assist in the commentary for that day. Anand has a rest day  in the second round and will be joining the commentators to comment on  the other games.<\/p>\n<p> Anand has a good draw and will start his campaign with the Black pieces  against localite Michael Adams . He will be wielding White against  Carlsen and kramnik and will play with Blacks against Aronian. The race  for the title is expected to be a quadrangular one between Anand,  Carlsen, Kramnik and Aronian and in all probability the player scoring  heavily against the Britishers would have high title taking chances.  Nakamura is also a tough opponent, capable of creating big upsets.<\/p>\n<p> At\u00a0 the last 2010 edition in London, Anand had remained unbeaten but finished joint second.<\/p>\n<p> The NIIT Mind Champion will be hoping to sign off the year in style and  also get into a good frame of mind before the World title clash next  year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi: <\/strong>World Chess Champion and NIIT Mind Champion  Viswanathan Anand will participate in the London Chess Classic 2011, the  last major Classical event of this year. Touted as the toughest ever  event to be hosted in the UK, the Chess Classic comprises of nine  heavyweights of the game taking on each other once, in a Round Robin  format. This incidentally in all probability will be Anand\u2019s last  Classical engagement before he takes on Challenger Boris Gelfand of  Israel in the World Chess championship title Match in May 2012 at  Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-chess-chess"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Anand all set for London Chess Classic - 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=1217\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anand all set for London Chess Classic - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: World Chess Champion and NIIT Mind Champion Viswanathan Anand will participate in the London Chess Classic 2011, the last major Classical event of this year. 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