World Champion Viswanathan Anand has defeated Jon Ludvig Hammer of Norway to jump to the joint second spot in the Norway Chess super tournament in Sandnes. The penultimate round victory turned out to be an important one for Anand, as it brought him within striking distance of winning the super tournament, for which the Indian ace will need a victory against Wnag Hao of China in the last round. Trailing the leader Sergey Karjakin of Russia by one and half points, and second placed world number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway by a full point with two rounds to go, Anand comes to the party as both Karjakin and Magnus lost to Peter Svidler of Russia and Wang Hao of China in the penultimate round. In the other games of the day Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria drew with Levon Aronian of Armenia while American Hikaru Nakamura made some amends at the expense of Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan.