<p>World champion Viswanathan Anand was off to a disappointing start, suffering a rare defeat as white against Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the first round of the Tal Memorial Chess Tournament here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>On what turned out to be a tough day for the world champion, Caruana did everything right after sacrificing a pawn in the middle game and Anand had little clues to better the judgement of the young Italian genius.<br /><br />World number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway got off to a flying start defeating arch-rival Vladimir Kramnik of Russia to find himself in early lead in the 10-player round-robin tournament.<br /><br />Besides Carlsen and Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan made merry at the expense of blitz tournament winner Hikaru Nakamura of United States to be in joint lead.<br /><br />Results (round I): V Anand (Ind) lt to Fabiano Caruana (Ita); Magnus Carlsen (Nor) bt Vladimir Kramnik (Rus); Hikaru Nakamura (US) lt to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze); Boris Gelfand (Isr) drew Sergey Karjakin (Rus); Dmitry Andreikin (Rus) drew Alexander Morozevich (Rus).</p>
<p>World champion Viswanathan Anand was off to a disappointing start, suffering a rare defeat as white against Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the first round of the Tal Memorial Chess Tournament here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>On what turned out to be a tough day for the world champion, Caruana did everything right after sacrificing a pawn in the middle game and Anand had little clues to better the judgement of the young Italian genius.<br /><br />World number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway got off to a flying start defeating arch-rival Vladimir Kramnik of Russia to find himself in early lead in the 10-player round-robin tournament.<br /><br />Besides Carlsen and Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan made merry at the expense of blitz tournament winner Hikaru Nakamura of United States to be in joint lead.<br /><br />Results (round I): V Anand (Ind) lt to Fabiano Caruana (Ita); Magnus Carlsen (Nor) bt Vladimir Kramnik (Rus); Hikaru Nakamura (US) lt to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze); Boris Gelfand (Isr) drew Sergey Karjakin (Rus); Dmitry Andreikin (Rus) drew Alexander Morozevich (Rus).</p>