Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand has crashed out of the World Chess Cup, now underway in Tbilisi, Georgia. He played out a draw in a must-win game against Anton Kovalyov of Canada in the second round. Playing in this knockout event after a gap of 15 years, Anand had lost the first game against Kovalyov and had to win the second to level score and force a subsequent tiebreaker.However after 31 moves, Anand decided that he did not have much hopes of winning and offered a draw to sign his exit. Besides Anand, defending champion Sergey Karjakin of Russia and Michael Adams of England were the other big names who were knocked out. This might well be the end of Anand's aspirations for a World Championship match next year unless he gets a wildcard in the 2018 Candidates' Tournament.