Anand held by Dominguez
From Our Chess Correspondent
Linares (Spain), Feb 22 (PTI) World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a hard fought draw with Grandmaster Lenier Dominguez of Cuba in the third round of the 22nd Ciudad de Leon chess tournament here today.
Taking his tally to 1.5 points out of a possible three, the Indian ace remained in the joint third spot in the eight-players double round-robin tournament.
The standings remained the same as the other games of the third round were also hard fought draws.
Grandmaster Levon Aronian of Armenia and Alexander Grischuk of Russia remained in joint lead with two points after drawing with Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan and Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine respectively.
Wang Yue played a solid game to hold Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the fourth game of the day.
Anand shares the third spot along side Dominguez, Carlsen and Ivanchuk while Radjabov and Wang Yue are currently at the bottom of the tables with one point each.
Eleven more rounds remain in the traditional tournament that carries a total prize pool of euro 3,14,000 with euro 1,00,000 reserved for the winner.
Playing the black side of a Sicilian Nazdorf, Anand faced the English attack from Dominguez but defedned his citadel well. PTI
From Our Chess Correspondent
Linares (Spain), Feb 22 (PTI) World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a hard fought draw with Grandmaster Lenier Dominguez of Cuba in the third round of the 22nd Ciudad de Leon chess tournament here today.
Taking his tally to 1.5 points out of a possible three, the Indian ace remained in the joint third spot in the eight-players double round-robin tournament.
The standings remained the same as the other games of the third round were also hard fought draws.
Grandmaster Levon Aronian of Armenia and Alexander Grischuk of Russia remained in joint lead with two points after drawing with Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan and Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine respectively.
Wang Yue played a solid game to hold Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the fourth game of the day.
Anand shares the third spot along side Dominguez, Carlsen and Ivanchuk while Radjabov and Wang Yue are currently at the bottom of the tables with one point each.
Eleven more rounds remain in the traditional tournament that carries a total prize pool of euro 3,14,000 with euro 1,00,000 reserved for the winner.
Playing the black side of a Sicilian Nazdorf, Anand faced the English attack from Dominguez but defedned his citadel well. PTI
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