{"id":1281,"date":"2011-12-05T04:01:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T04:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2011-12-05T04:01:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T04:01:26","slug":"anand-starts-with-a-draw-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"Anand starts with a draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London: <\/strong>A quick chat with former tennis star Boris Becker  before the start of the game on Sunday had the Indian ace and reigning  World Champion and NIIT Mind Champion\u00a0 Viswanathan Anand\u00a0 starting on a  good note against Michael Adams in the first round of the London Chess  Classic 2011 but the game petered into a draw after 49 moves.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Generally  Round one of most Round Robin tournaments are sedate, solid and  sometimes dull affairs with players preferring to warm up but on  Saturday night , the encounters were interesting and enthralling though  just one decisive result was produced by Magnus Carlsen who trounced  David Howell.<\/p>\n<p>The event has odd number of entries and hence each  player will recieive a bye in every round. The NIIT Mind Champion has a  bye in the second round and will assist the commentary team on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Carlsen  is thus leading the nine player event with 3 points while  Anand,Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, Adams, Luke McShane and Hikaru  Nakamura have logged one point each. Nigel Short had a bye in the first  round.<\/p>\n<p>Anand opted for the Sicilian Najdorf against Adams and the  game was more or less a replica of the variation they played last year.  The Englishman after the game however commented \u201c Vishy was better at  some point\u201d . However the pieces kept getting exchanged there- after at  quick intervals and the players reached an almost identical appearing  position where each had four pawns and queen. <\/p>\n<p>Anand secured the  draw by perpetual checks with his queen.Carlsen scored in 40 moves of a  Spanish opening while Luke Mcshane did creditably well to draw against  Levon Aronian of Armenia after the latter got a very promising looking  position in a Slav game. Kramnik and Nakamura also drew after 45 moves  of a Catalan opening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London: <\/strong>A quick chat with former tennis star Boris Becker  before the start of the game on Sunday had the Indian ace and reigning  World Champion and NIIT Mind Champion\u00a0 Viswanathan Anand\u00a0 starting on a  good note against Michael Adams in the first round of the London Chess  Classic 2011 but the game petered into a draw after 49 moves.<\/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-1281","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 starts with a draw - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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