The Hindu : Anand in sole lead

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Tuesday, Jan 20, 2004

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Anand in sole lead

CHENNAI, JAN. 19. Viswanathan Anand has tremendous record against Chinese players. In his seventh round game of the 66th Corus chess tournament at Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands he humbled Zhang Zhong of China in a positional encounter to move into sole lead.

Anand played the Sicilian defence with the black pieces and Zhong preferred to play the closed variation and not take on the Paulsen variation of the Indian. Hurling his pawns on both wings, Anand surrendered the castling right voluntarily on move 18.

On the 35th move, Anand trapped white's rook with his knight to gain material. Zhong who was comprehensively outplayed by a stronger opponent decided to resign in 40 moves. Anand played very well despite playing black. He tucked his king to safety, placed his rooks in aggressive squares to cash his point against the Chinese in their maiden head-to-head encounter.

The results (round seven): Vladimir Akopian 3.5 drew with Michael Adams 4.5, Loek van Wely 3.5 drew with Peter Leko 4, Viktor Bologan 3 bt Ivan Sokolov 2.5, Peter Svidler 4 bt Veselin Topalov 4, Alexei Shirov 3 bt Jan Timman 2.5, Zhang Zhong 2 lost to Viswanathan Anand 5, Evgeny Bareev 3 drew with Vladimir Kramnik 4.5. — Our Chess Correspondent

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