People’s Daily Online, China

Anand leads chess worlds after 7th round
17, September 21, 2007

Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand defeated Russian native Alexander Grischuk
in a 50-move Ruy-Lopez anti-Marshall attack and leads at the World
Chess Championship Mexico-2007 after the 7th round.

After half of the 14-round event, Anand leads (5.0 points); Boris
Gelfand (Israel) is 2nd (4.5); world champion Vladimir Kramnik
(Russia) is 3rd (4.0); Alexander Grischuk (Russia) is 4th (3.5); Levon
Aronian (Armenia) and Peter Leko (Hungary) share 5th (3).

Meanwhile, Peter Svidler and Alexander Morozevich, both from Russia
have two and a half points each.

The 7th round openings were as follows: Morozevich-Leko was a 60-move
Scotch that ended in a hard-fought draw; Svidler-Aronian was a short
Ruy-Lopez exchange draw, while the Kramnik-Gelfand game was 40-move
Anti-Moscow slav draw.

The 8th-round pairings for Friday afternoon’s games will face
Svidler-Kramnik, Aronian-Morozevich, Gelfand-Anand and Leko-Grischuk.

The Gelfand-Anand game will be very exciting since both chess players
are ahead of the rest of the players in this event.

In this championship each player has two hours each to make their
first forty moves and additional one hour four the next 20 moves when
it is necessary.

This is the first official World Chess Championship played in Mexico
with International Chess Federation (FIDE) rules, and is being played
at the Sheraton hotel at Mexico City’s Historic Center.

Source: Xinhua