Chess legend Garry Kasparov suffered the first loss of his brief but highly anticipated comeback to the game, succumbing to fellow Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi and bringing his draw total to five in St Louis. United States . After three draws on Monday, the 54-year-old former worldchampion — who dominated the game from 1985 to 2000 — hadhoped to play "more aggressive" chess on day two of the Rapidand Blitz tournament which is a part of the Grand Chess Tour. But after drawing his first game yesterday with Armenian world number four Levon Aronian he could not hold on against Nepomniachtchi. At the day's close Kasparov drew once more after going up against Former world champion Viswanathan Anand . On the opening day Anand had suffered two losses. The Indian ace was pegged back by an opening round loss against Hikaru Nakamura of United States and then suffered another debacle against Levon Aronian of Armenia in the third round. The second round had ended in a draw for Anand against Lenier Dominguez of Cuba.