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London: India’s ace chess player and former world champion Viswanathan Anand managed to play a draw against reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen after the Norwegian had taken an edge over the Indian in the third round of London Chess Classic being played here on Monday.<\/p>\n
In the most highly anticipated clash of the day, Carlsen chose to meet Anand’s Ruy Lopez with the Berlin Defence, an opening that famously played a huge part in both their World Championship matches.<\/p>\n
According to the official website www.londonchessclassic.com, Anand came out of the opening with a favourable position, but a few inaccuracies before the time control left Carlsen in the driving seat. However, the World Champion failed to convert his clear advantage and the players eventually agreed a draw on move 57.<\/p>\n
Another player who came very close to tasting victory was Alexander Grischuk who, too, failed to convert his advantage and agreed for a draw against Anish Giri which keeps him unbeaten in the Tour. Fabiano Caruana also missed his chances against Hikaru Nakamura. Michael Adams, meanwhile, scored his third draw against Levon Aronian.<\/p>\n
So after one decisive game in round one and none in round two, the third day also witnessed just one decisive game wherein Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France defeated now-struggling Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria. A leader at the start of this final edition of the first Grand Chess Tour, Topalov needs a miracle to hold on to his top spot in the tour now.<\/p>\n
Results round 3:<\/strong> V Anand (Ind, 1.5) drew with Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 1.5); Fabiano Caruana (Usa, 1.5) drew with Hikaru Nakamura (Usa, 1.5); Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra, 2) beat Veselin Topalov (Bul, 0.5); Michael Adams (Eng, 1.5) drew with Levon Aronian (Arm, 1.5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the most highly anticipated clash of the day, Carlsen chose to meet Anand’s Ruy Lopez with the Berlin Defence, an opening that famously played a huge part in both their World Championship matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[12904,2548,7490,1337,12791,3125],"class_list":["post-24521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chess-chess","tag-chess-news","tag-isn","tag-london-chess-classic","tag-magnus-carlsen","tag-sports-news","tag-viswanathan-anand"],"yoast_head":"\nLondon: India’s ace chess player and former world champion Viswanathan Anand managed to play a draw against reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen after the Norwegian had taken an edge over the Indian in the third round of London Chess Classic being played here on Monday.<\/p>\n