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Anand blunders, suffers defeat

NEW DELHI: Armenia’s Levon Aronian handed out a shock defeat to World champion Viswanathan Anand in the second round of the Morelia-Linares chess tournament at Morelia, Mexico, on Saturday.

Anand, playing white in this Ruy Lopez game, committed a blunder with his knight-move on the 30th turn and gave up after 34 moves when faced with checkmate. In the day’s other decisive battle Vassily Ivanchuk beat Peter Leko.

The results (second round): Viswanathan Anand (1) lost to Levon Aronian (Arm, 1); Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr. 1.5) bt Peter Leko (Hun, 1).

Teimour Radjabov (Aze, 0.5) drew with Veselin Topalov (Bul, 1.5); Alexei Shirov (Esp, 0.5) drew with Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 1).

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