Viswanathan Anand’s Struggle Continues, Suffers 6th Straight Defeat In Legends Of Chess Tournament   | Chess News

Former international champion Viswanathan Anand’s struggles persisted within the USD 150,000 Legends of Chess online tournament as he suffered his 6th consecutive defeat with a 2-Three loss to Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia. Anand began the 6th spherical fit with a draw as he got here up with just right defensive strikes to stay the Russian at bay in a 53-move draw. Then again, Nepomniachtchi went forward by way of pulling off a 34-move win in the second one recreation.

The 3rd recreation noticed the gamers signal peace after 48 strikes. The five-time international champion then fought again neatly to assert the fourth recreation in 42 strikes to push the competition into the Armageddon (a tie-breaker).

Nepomniachtchi gained the decisive tie-break in 41 strikes to shatter the hopes of the 50-year outdated Indian famous person and left him winless after six rounds.

World champion Magnus Carlsen persisted his successful run and tops the standings with 17 fit issues. Nepomniachtchi is 2d on 16 adopted by way of compatriot Vladimir Karmnik (12).

Anand, who’s making his debut at the Magnus Carlsen Excursion, lies 9th with 3 issues.

Legends of Chess is a novel tournament the place Carlsen, Ding Liren, Nepomniachtchi and Anish Giri, semifinalists on the Chessable Masters (a part of the Magnus Carlsen Excursion), won an automated invite and are up towards six legends elderly 40-52, who’ve been on the best of worldwide chess at quite a lot of issues of their occupation.

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The winner of this tournament will qualify for the USD 300,000 Grand Ultimate, scheduled from August nine to 20.

Effects – Spherical 6: Ian Nepomniachtchi beat Viswanathan Anand Three-2; Magnus Carlsen beat Ding Liren 2.Five-1.Five: Anish Giri beat Peter Leko 2.Five-1.Five; Vladmir Kramnik beat Boris Gelfand Three-2; Peter Svidler beat Vasyl Ivanchuk Three-2.