<p>Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand signed peace with Peter Svidler of Russia in the seventh round to play out his fourth consecutive draw at the Candidates’ chess tournament here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>At the half-way stage Anand took his tally to 4.5 points out of a possible seven to share the lead with Armenia’s Levon Aronian, who got the better of Russia’s Sergey Karjakin on Friday.Vladimir Kramnik defeated Azerbaijan’s Shakhriyar Mamedyarov move to the third spot on the table with four points.<br /><br />In other games, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria was outdone by Dmitry Andreikin in the big upset of the day.<br /><br />Svidler was a bit tentative in the closed Ruy Lopez after Anand went for the Berlin defense -- the flavour of the season. The Indian got in to the groove pretty fast with his knights moving to the King side for some rapid action in the early stages of the middle game. Svidler felt the heat but did not give much away.<br /><br />The critical moment was when Anand could win a pawn which was also suggested by all chess engines albeit hard to judge for a human mind. Anand in the end concluded that it was all a bit “messy”, a sentiment echoed by Svidler.<br /><br />However, the game was far from over as Anand came up with a positional queen sacrifice to liven things up.<br /><br />Svidler knew his chances of holding were high with pawns exchanges and the Russian wasted no time in pushing his brigade forward.<br /><br />Anand could do little after a timely exchange sacrifice that left him with two rooks for a queen.“In fact, his draw offer was useful, it helped me with my evaluation. Peter (Svidler) is not a devious guy, there are people who will offer a draw in a worse position,” Anand said in the post-game conference.<br /><br />Andreikin caused a sensation at the expense of Topalov who was a pale shadow of himself.Topalov went for the Queen’s gambit declined as black and faced a side variation. The Bulgarian got a decent opening with a temporary pawn sacrifice but missed the thread as he gave to much weightage to an optical attack against the king.<br /><br />Andreikin steered his king to safety with a long walk to the queen side and the extra pawn did the damage thereafter.</p>
<p>Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand signed peace with Peter Svidler of Russia in the seventh round to play out his fourth consecutive draw at the Candidates’ chess tournament here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>At the half-way stage Anand took his tally to 4.5 points out of a possible seven to share the lead with Armenia’s Levon Aronian, who got the better of Russia’s Sergey Karjakin on Friday.Vladimir Kramnik defeated Azerbaijan’s Shakhriyar Mamedyarov move to the third spot on the table with four points.<br /><br />In other games, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria was outdone by Dmitry Andreikin in the big upset of the day.<br /><br />Svidler was a bit tentative in the closed Ruy Lopez after Anand went for the Berlin defense -- the flavour of the season. The Indian got in to the groove pretty fast with his knights moving to the King side for some rapid action in the early stages of the middle game. Svidler felt the heat but did not give much away.<br /><br />The critical moment was when Anand could win a pawn which was also suggested by all chess engines albeit hard to judge for a human mind. Anand in the end concluded that it was all a bit “messy”, a sentiment echoed by Svidler.<br /><br />However, the game was far from over as Anand came up with a positional queen sacrifice to liven things up.<br /><br />Svidler knew his chances of holding were high with pawns exchanges and the Russian wasted no time in pushing his brigade forward.<br /><br />Anand could do little after a timely exchange sacrifice that left him with two rooks for a queen.“In fact, his draw offer was useful, it helped me with my evaluation. Peter (Svidler) is not a devious guy, there are people who will offer a draw in a worse position,” Anand said in the post-game conference.<br /><br />Andreikin caused a sensation at the expense of Topalov who was a pale shadow of himself.Topalov went for the Queen’s gambit declined as black and faced a side variation. The Bulgarian got a decent opening with a temporary pawn sacrifice but missed the thread as he gave to much weightage to an optical attack against the king.<br /><br />Andreikin steered his king to safety with a long walk to the queen side and the extra pawn did the damage thereafter.</p>