Five-time World Chess champion Viswanathan Anand has started his campaign at the Bilbao Final Masters with a crushing win over former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine. Playing his last tournament ahead of the World Championship re-match against Magnus Carlsen in November, Anand outclassed Ponomariov in all departments of the game. The Indian ace got three points for his win. In the Soccer-like scoring system in place in the event, a winner gets three points while a draw fetches one point. The four players double round robin tournament saw today's other game between Levon Aronian of Armenia and Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain ending in a draw. Pons and Aronian share the second spot on one point while Ponomariov is at the bottom now.