Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen in the seventh round of the blitz event of Norway Chess today in Oslo Norway. With this win, Anand finished  at fourth position with five points in the event. At the top is American Grandmaster Wesley So, who has 6.5 points while Carlsen is in the second position. Dutch Grandmaster Anish Giri takes third place.

Viswanathan Anand started off with a win over Norway's Aryan Tari, before drawing with Wesley So in the second and winning against Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov in the third round. In the fourth round, he shared points with Azerbaijan's Teimur Radjabov. A loss to Anish Giri in the fifth was followed by a draw against China's Hao Wang in the sixth round and finally a win over Carlsen in the seventh round.