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Anand crowned World Chess Champion for fifth time
Wednesday May 30, 2012 09:01:26 PM,
IANS
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Moscow: Defending
champion Vishwanathan Anand of India clinched the World Chess
Championship title for the fifth time here Wednesday defeating
Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand in a rapid-chess tie-breaker.
Anand sealed his fourth-consecutive world title beating Gelfand
2.5-1.5 in the four-match tie breaker at Moscow's State Tretyakov
Gallery. The tournament went into the tie-breakers after Anand and
Gelfand drew the 12th game Monday. They were tied 6-6 after the
final round.
In the tie-breaker, Anand went ahead after winning the second game
in 77 moves following a draw in the first in 33 moves. The
remaining two games also ended in a draw for a result of 2.5-1.5
as Anand defended his world championship title for the third time
in a row.
Anand will receive $1.5 million, while challenger Gelfand bags $1
million.
Anand said he was too tense to be happy.
"Game one was a tense start. It was a long and tough match. The
match was very intense, I am relieved. I was better for most part
in the second game. It was a back and forth game," Anand told
reporters at the renowned State Tretyakov Gallery.
A humble Anand admitted that Gelfand was a tough competitor.
"I am too tense to be happy, right now now I am relieved. Gelfand
was playing well, the match was very even," he said.
The 42-year-old Indian said losing the seventh game had put him on
the back-foot and he felt fortunate to defend the crown.
"It was a huge blow for me to lose the seventh game. It was very
critical moment for me. I was extremely fortunate that I was able
to come back the next day. Given that we drew our first 12 games,
deciding the match by tie-break is quite a reasonable situation,"
he said.
The 42-year-old became the first Asian to win the FIDE world chess
championship after defeating Latvian Alexei Shirov in Tehran in
2000. Anand's triumph Wednesday was his fourth consecutive -- he
also won in 2007, 2008 and 2010.
Gelfand, 43, gained the right to be contender for the world title
after a win last May against Russia's Alexander Grischuk at a
contenders' tournament in Kazan, Russia.
Russian billionaire and Gelfand's school friend Andrey Filatov
paid $7 million from his own pocket to hold the event in one of
the halls of the renowned State Tretyakov Gallery.
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