Viswanathan Anand to lead strong Indian team in online Chess Olympiad
Other Sports | July 31, 2021 22:33 ISTThe Indian team had shared the title with Russia in the last edition and will look to emerge sole winner this time.
The Indian team had shared the title with Russia in the last edition and will look to emerge sole winner this time.
The duo will meet later on Sunday in the fourth and final game. Anand only needs a draw to triumph.
Anand needed 66 moves to beat Kramnik late on Wednesday in a match played as part of the "No-Castling" Chess devised by the Russian GM .
The victory came for the Indian maestro after three straight draws in rounds 10, 11 and 12 against Anish Giri (the Netherlands), Jan-Kryzstof Duda (Poland) and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) respectively.
The former world champion had ended up at seventh spot after the Rapid section with nine points. He had posted two wins and drawn five and lost two matches.
The former world champion, playing black pieces, was held to a draw by Croatian GM Ivan Saric in 48 moves in a Sicilian Four Knights variation game.
He had drawn his fourth-round game against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) in 70 moves in an Alekhine variation game.
Anand told Saurabh Chaudhary that he has been hearing fantastic things about the shooters and hope that they would excel in the Olympics too.
At 12 years, four months and 25 days, Mishra achieved the feat after scoring his third GM norm in the April Vezerkepzo tournament in Budapest on Wednesday.
The event was conducted to raise funds for those suffering due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Indian chess grandmaster and former world chess champion, Viswanathan Anand will play a 'simultaneous exhibition' match against the country's renowned celebrities and businesspersons to raise funds for The Akshaya Patra Foundation's COVID-19 relief feeding efforts.
K Viswanathan was 92 and breathed his last at a city hospital in Chennai, family sources said.
Anand spoke at length about his rivalry with Kramnik and delved into how both of them are on identical scores even after a whopping 150 games.
For Anand, a five-time world champion and the country's first Grandmaster, it was his first Olympiad medal and he described it as a "magical moment".
It was Anand's eighth loss in the USD 150,000 tournament. The 50-year-old ended in ninth position behind GM Peter Leko who finished last.
Anand needed just 45 moves to win the first round while he closed down the second round in 49 moves. The third ended in a draw.
Anand, however, picked up his first point of the event. He remains at the bottom of the table. He had earlier lost to Peter Svidler, Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik.
The former world champion had kept the Norwegian ace in check-in three games of the best-of-four contest before slipping 1.5-2.5 by in the final game late on Wednesday.
The former world champion said "most Indian parents are right" that chess will help their children do better in school.
Anand was in Germany to play in the Bundesliga chess league in February and was slated to return to India in March.
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