{"id":1326,"date":"2011-12-06T14:42:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2011-12-06T14:42:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T14:42:53","slug":"anand-plays-draw-against-howell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1326","title":{"rendered":"Anand plays draw against Howell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London: <\/strong>\u2018The art of self defence\u201d is an integral part of any  chess games and it is the tough people who thrive and come out unscathed  under the most tiring of circumstances. World Champion and NIIT Mind  Champion Viswanathan Anand held on to his nerves and his game to wriggle  out of what most called an inferior position against David Howell in  the third round of the London Chess Classic 2011 at the Olympia Media  Centre on late Monday night.<\/p>\n<p> Magnus Carlsen the highest ranked player in fray defeated Hikaru  Nakamura in a scintillating game to emerge joint leader with 7 points.  In an all English affair, Michael Adams played disastrously to lose out  to Luke McShane while Levon Aronian scored over Nigel Short in this 9  player Round Robin event. Vladimir Kramnik had a bye and assisted the  commentary team.<\/p>\n<p> McShane is in second place with 5 points, Aronian, Kramnik and Nakamura  are next with four points each. Anand , Adams and Howell have logged two  points each while Short is yet to open his account. Three points are  awarded for a victory and one for a draw in this Category 20 event. <\/p>\n<p> Anand has a\u00a0 vast Opening repertoire and one always wonders whether the  NIIT Mind Champion would open with the King Pawn or the Queen Pawn as he  is comfortable with both. Anand however stuck to the Queen Pawn opening  which he has been employing it with regularity since his World  Championship Match against Kramnik in 2008.<\/p>\n<p> Howell opted for the Slav defence and the game went more or less along  equal lines till Anand made it interesting with a sacrifice on the 15th  turn. Howell however nullified the attack but Anand erred on the 29th  turn, opening up promising continuations for his opponent.<\/p>\n<p> Howell however missed way and during the first time control of 40 moves,  the game appeared heading for a draw. Peace was signed on the 65th turn  by repetition of moves when the players were left with a queen and two  pawns each.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Round three<br \/> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Round 3: Monday, December 5, 2011<br \/> Levon Aronian1-0Nigel Short\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/> Magnus Carlsen1-0Hikaru Nakamura\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/> Michael Adams0-1Luke McShane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/> Vishy Anand\u00bd \u00bdDavid Howell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/> Vladimir Kramnik (bye) \u2013 assisting commentary\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London: <\/strong>\u2018The art of self defence\u201d is an integral part of any  chess games and it is the tough people who thrive and come out unscathed  under the most tiring of circumstances. World Champion and NIIT Mind  Champion Viswanathan Anand held on to his nerves and his game to wriggle  out of what most called an inferior position against David Howell in  the third round of the London Chess Classic 2011 at the Olympia Media  Centre on late Monday night.<\/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-1326","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 plays draw against Howell - 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=1326\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anand plays draw against Howell - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"London: \u2018The art of self defence\u201d is an integral part of any chess games and it is the tough people who thrive and come out unscathed under the most tiring of circumstances. 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