CHESS: ANAND, GELFAND SHARE LEAD
Indiatimes
Sep 20, 2007
IANS
India
MEXICO CITY, September 20: Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand
of Israel share the lead at four points in the World Chess Championship
after the sixth round of matches with three draws and a win.
Anand tied his game on Wednesday with Peter Leko of Hungary in a
21-move Ruy Lopez opening, while Gelfand defeated Russian Alexander
Morozevich in a 50-move Queen’s Indian Defence.
Alexander Grischuk and Peter Svidler, both from Russia, played a
41-move draw with the Slav Defence and Levon Aronian of Armenia draw
with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in a 22-move Catalan opening.
After the sixth round game Anand said, "I only worry about the game
I have to play, I couldn’t care less about other games."
Gelfand said, "I know I have to play against the strongest players
in the next two rounds, Kramnik and Anand, but that does not affect
my state of mind at all."
Defending world champion Kramnik said, "I am still in the fight,
I am only half a point behind the leaders.
I do not understand why Aronian dared to play my favourite opening. He
did not play aggressively."
"I do not think I can recover. I believe it is impossible for me to
win this event.", said Morozevich.
After the sixth round, Anand and Gelfand lead with four points each,
Kramnik and Grischuk are tied for second place half a point behind,
while Aronian and Svidler have 2.5 points and Svidler and Morozevich
are on two points apiece.
The seventh-round pairings are Svidler-Aronian, Kramnik-Gelfand,
Morozevich-Leko and Anand-Grischuk.