Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India played out an easy draw against Anish Giri of Holland in the seventh round to occupy the sole third position at the Candidates Chess tournament.The Indian ace has moved his tally up to four points out of a possible seven at the half way stage and will now hope for some good performance in the second half of his biggest challenge of the year.The first half ended with Anand scoring two wins over Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria and Peter Svidler of Russia, one loss against Sergey Karjakin of Russia and four draws. Karjakin and Aronian continued at the top of the tables on 4.5 points apiece while Anand remained in sole third spot.
News On AIR | March 20, 2016 12:00 PM
Candidates Chess: Anand plays out an easy draw against Anish in 7th round