: Legends Of Chess tournament: Anand suffers second straight defeat, loses to Carlsen #IndiaNEWS India’s Viswanathan Anand suffered his second consecutive loss, going down to world No 1 Magnus Carlsen

Legends Of Chess tournament: Anand suffers second straight defeat, loses to Carlsen #IndiaNEWS
India’s Viswanathan Anand suffered his second consecutive loss, going down to world No 1 Magnus Carlsen in the second round of the 0,000 Chess24 Legends of Chess online tournament.The former world champion had kept the Norwegian ace in check in three games of the best-of-four contest before slipping by 1.5-2.5 in the final game late on Wednesday.The Indian ace is making his first appearance on the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour.He had gone down by a similar margin to Russia’s Peter Svidler in the opening round. He takes on another former world champion Vladimir Kramnik in the third round.Anand is back in action after having last participated in the Online Nations Cup in May.Carlsen is in joint lead with veteran Israeli Boris Gelfand and Svidler. All of them have six points after two victories each.Anish Giri got off the mark with a win over Vladimir Kramnik, while world No 3 Ding Liren’s struggles continued as the Chinese lost to Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia.All the round-robin games are best-of-four game contests. Legends of Chess is a unique event where Carlsen, Liren, Nepomniachtchi and Giri, semifinalists at the Chessable Masters (part of the Magnus Carlsen Tour), received an automatic invite.They are up against six legends aged 40-52, who have been at...Read more

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