Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand started off with a clinical victory over Li Tian Yeoh of Malaysia in the first round of the first game of World Chess Cup in Tbilisi yesterday. The second highest rated Indian, P Harikrishna, however suffered a defeat at the hands of Yuri Vidal Gonzales of Cuba. Harikrishan now needs to win the return match and then win the tie-breaker as well to remain in this 128-player knockout event. The other Indians in the fray also had a field day. Grandmaster Vidit Gujarathi, was tested with his white pieces and got a draw against Neuris Ramirez Delgado of Paraguay. Grandmaster B Adhiban played out a draw with Vietnam's Nguyen Ngoc Troung Son while Deep Sengupta did well to hold higher ranked Wang Hao of China. S P Sethuraman also did fine as a start as he held former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov to a draw while Murali Karthikeyan went down to the experienced Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain.