Hindu, India
Feb 18 2008
Anand blunders, suffers defeat
NEW DELHI: Armenia’s Levon Aronian handed out a shock defeat to World
champion Viswanathan Anand in the second round of the Morelia-Linares
chess tournament at Morelia, Mexico, on Saturday.
Anand, playing white in this Ruy Lopez game, committed a blunder with
his knight-move on the 30th turn and gave up after 34 moves when
faced with checkmate. In the day’s other decisive battle Vassily
Ivanchuk beat Peter Leko.
The results (second round): Viswanathan Anand (1) lost to Levon
Aronian (Arm, 1); Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr. 1.5) bt Peter Leko (Hun, 1).
Teimour Radjabov (Aze, 0.5) drew with Veselin Topalov (Bul, 1.5);
Alexei Shirov (Esp, 0.5) drew with Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 1).
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