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Facing Kamsky in a 12-game final match held at Las Palmas, Anand lost Game 1 on time in a winning position but recovered with wins in Game 3, 9, and 11 to secure a 6½–4½ victory and a match against reigning champion Kasparov for the world chess championship. [56] It was the first Candidates' Tournament victory of Anand's career.
The game opened with a Grünfeld Defence (as in the game 1), but Anand deviated very early by playing 3.f3 instead of 3.Nc3. Following the opening moves White gained an edge and was pawn up, but Anand ran into time trouble, having to play 7 moves per minute to reach the time control at move 40 and having missed the winning continuation in the ...
Viswanathan Anand (born 11 December 1969) and Vladimir Kramnik (born 25 June 1975) have played 93 classical chess games, of which Kramnik won eleven, Anand won eleven, and 71 games were drawn. In the rapid format Anand has 12 wins, Kramnik has 4 wins with 39 draws.
Game 1 9 Nov. Game 2 10 Nov. Game 3 12 Nov. Game 4 13 Nov. Game 5 15 Nov. Game 6 16 Nov. Game 7 18 Nov. Game 8 19 Nov. Game 9 21 Nov. Game 10 22 Nov. Game 11 24 Nov. Game 12 26 Nov. Points Viswanathan Anand (India) 2775 ½: ½ ½: ½ 0: 0 ½: ½ 0: ½ Not required 3½ Magnus Carlsen (Norway) 2870: ½: ½ ½: ½ 1: 1 ½: ½ 1: ½ 6½
The World Chess Championship 2014 was a match between the world champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Viswanathan Anand, to determine the World Chess Champion.It was held from 7 to 25 November 2014, under the auspices of the World Chess Federation in Sochi, Russia.
“It’s our Mount Olympus,” Viswanathan “Vishy” Anand, a five-time world chess champion, tells CNN Sport. “It’s the thing you spend a lot of time trying to achieve, aiming for ...
The World Chess Championship 2008 was a best-of-twelve-games match between the incumbent World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, and the previous World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik. Kramnik had been granted a match after not winning the World Chess Championship 2007 tournament.
Grenke Chess Classic is an annual chess tournament held in the German cities of Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden and sponsored by Grenke AG. [1] It was held from 2013 to 2019, with the exception of 2016. The tournament returned in 2024 after a five-year hiatus with a new rapid time control (45+10) to replace the previous classical format.