Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Magnus Carlsen of Norway in Group A to be joint third while Parimarjan Negi was upset by IM Nadezhda Kosintseva of Russia in the fourth round of the Corus International Chess tournament.
Our Chess Correspondent
WIJK AAN ZEE (The Netherlands): Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Magnus Carlsen of Norway in Group A to be joint third while Parimarjan Negi was upset by IM Nadezhda Kosintseva of Russia in the fourth round of the Corus International Chess tournament here.
For Anand, who scored his lone victory so far in the second round of the event against Alexander Motylev of Russia, it turned out to be a comfortable draw with black.
Carlsen, looking desperate to put an end to his losses in the super tournament, did little and after 20 moves the peace was signed.
Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan maintained his sole lead over top seed Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria after the former demolished Sergei Tiviakov of Holland in a long game.
Topalov also registered a fine victory in this round accounting for Alexei Shirov of Spain and these two, in fact, were the only two decisive games in the fourth round.
As things stand, Radjabov with his third victory in four games took his tally to 3.5 points while Topalov remained on his toes a half point adrift.
Anand, Peter Svidler and World champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, David Navara of Czech Republic and Levon Aronian of Armenia stand joint third at this time on 2.5 points each while former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine is next in line on 2 points.
Negi slipped from his shared first position after a shocking loss against International Master Kosintseva.
However, IM Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia maintained his stronghold on the event defeating local hopeful Manuel Bosboom and shot into sole lead on 3.5 points.
The Russian has a full point lead over Negi, Bosboom, top seed Michael Krasenkow of Poland and Chinese girl wonder Yifan Hou.
Playing the black side of a Sicilian Nazdorf, Anand faced a variation he himself adopted against Hungarian Peter Leko in the previous edition here and naturally the Indian had much better ideas than his young opponent. Carlsen just exchanged a couple of pieces before signing peace.
Negi was outdone by Kosintseva in a French defense game where the Indian played white. Going for the topical Winawer variation Negi seized the early initiative but a timely counterplay by Kosintseva had him under pressure.
The Delhi-based lost an exchange in a tactical melee and never recovered.
Today is the first of the three rest days in the event and the fifth round will now be played on Thursday.
Results
Group A: Veselin Topalov (Bul, 3) beat Alexei Shirov (Esp, 0.5); Peter Svidler (Rus, 2.5) drew with Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr, 2); Vladimir Kramnik (Rus, 2.5) drew with David Navara (Cze, 2.5); Alexander Motylev (Rus, 1.5) drew with Levon Aronian (Arm, 2.5); Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 1) drew with Viswanathan Anand (Ind, 2.5) Loek Van Wely (Ned, 1) drew with Sergey Karjakin (Ukr, 2); Temour Radjabov (Aze, 3.5) beat Sergei Tiviakov (Ned, 1)
Group C: Thomas Willemze (Ned, 0.5) lost to Edwin van Haastert (Ned, 2); Zhaoqin Peng (Ned, 2) beat Harmen Jonkman (Ned, 1.5); Ian Nepomniachtchi (Rus, 3.5) beat Manuel Bosboom (Ned, 2.5); Hou Yifan (Chn, 2.5) drew with Emauel Berg (Swe, 2.5); Wouter Spoelman (Ned, 1.5) drew with John van der Wiel (Ned, 1); Stellan Brynell (Swe, 1.5) drew with Michal Krasenkow (Pol, 2.5); Parimarjan Negi (Ind, 2.5) lost to Nadezhda Kosintseva (Rus, 2)
Magnus Carlsen v/s V Anand
1.e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5
7. Nf3 Be7 8. Bc4 O-O 9. O-O Be6 10. Bb3 Nc6 11. Bg5 Nd7 12.
Bxe7 Qxe7 13. Nd5 Qd8 14.c3 Na5 15. Bc2 Nc4 16. b3 Na3 17. Ne3
Nxc2 18. Qxc2 Rc8 19. Rfd1 Rc6 20. Rac1 b5 draw agreed
Parimarjan Negi v/s Nadezhda Kosintseva
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7.
Be3 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Bc5 9. Qd2 O-O 10. O-O-O a6 11. Qf2 Bxd4 12.
Bxd4 b5 13. Bd3 b4 14. Ne2 a5 15. Qf3 Ba6 16. Qh5 g6 17. Qh6
Qc7 18. Bf2 f5 19. exf6 Nxf6 20. Bxa6 Rxa6 21. Qh3 Qf7 22. Qd3
Raa8 23. Rhe1 Ne4 24. Be3 a4 25. c4 bxc3 26. Nxc3 Rfc8 27. a3
Rab8 28. Kb1 Ne5 29. fxe5 Nxc3+ 30. Ka1 Nxd1 31. Rxd1 Qb7
32. Rb1 Rc4 33. Bd4 Qc6 34. Qd2 Rc8 35. Bc3 Qc5 36. Bb4 Qd4
37. Qg5 Qf4 38. Qe7 Qf7 39. Qd6 R4c6 40. Qe7 Qxe7 41. Bxe7 Rc1
white resigned.
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