| Dortmund,
June 30: Viswanathan Anand maintained his unbeaten run, but
was unable to add any further win as he played a draw against
Shakriyar Mamedyarov, the World's No. 4 player in the fifth
round of Sparkassen Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
Anand,
a Brand Ambassador for NIIT, now has three points and is tied
second with Evgeny Alekseev, who also drew his fifth round
with Arkadij Naiditsch. Vladmir Kramnik playing with black
drew with Peter Leko and stayed on top with 3.5 points.
Making
it an all-draw round was young Magnus Carlsen who drew with
experienced Boris Gelfand.
Azerbaijan's
Mamedyarov tried an early pawn sacrifice against Anand's unusual
Queen's Indian line. Anand returned the material for a position
where he was a little worse, on account of his split queenside
pawns, but steady defence held. But Mamedyarov despite all
efforts could find no way to progress further and the game
was draw in 69 moves.
Today's
fifth round in Dortmund saw all four games drawn, and none
of them terribly exciting. The drawing average is now exactly
75% (15 out of 20 games) with five white and no black wins.
Results
of Round 5: Leko drew with Kramnik, Mamedyarov drew with Anand;
Carlsen drew with Gelfand; Naiditsch drew with Alekseev
Round
5 Standings: 1. Kramnik 3.5; 2. Anand and Alekseev 3.0; 4.
Leko and Mamedyarov 2.5; 6. Gelfand and Carlsen 2.0; 8. Naiditsch
1.5;
Anand's
fifth round game:
Mamedyarov
v Anand
1. d4
Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 b5 6. cxb5 Bxb5 7.
Bg2 d5 8. O-O Bd6 9. Nc3 Ba6 10. Re1 O-O 11. Qc2 Nbd7 12.
e4 dxe4 13. Nxe4 Bb7 14. Nfg5 Rb8 15. d5 exd5 16. Nxf6+ Nxf6
17. Bb2 Ne4 18. Nxe4 dxe4 19. Bxe4 Bxe4 20. Rxe4 Qd7 21. Rae1
Rfe8 22. Qc3 Bf8 23. Qe3 Rxe4 24. Qxe4 c5 25. Bc3 h6 26. h4
a6 27. Re2 Qb5 28. Re3 Rd8 29. Qg4 Qc6 30. Qe2 Qb5 31. Kh2
Qc6 32. Re4 Qb5 33. Bd2 Qc6 34. Rc4 Rd5 35. Be3 Qb5 36. Qc2
h5 37. Qe4 Qd7 38. Ra4 Qc6 39. Ra5 Rd6 40. Qxc6 Rxc6 41. Kg2
f6 42. Kf3 Kf7 43. Ra4 Be7 44. Rc4 Ke6 45. g4 hxg4+ 46. Rxg4
f5 47. Rxg7 Bxh4 48. Kf4 Kf6 49. Rg8 c4 50. Bd4+ Kf7 51. Rg7+
Kf8 52. Rh7 Be7 53. Rh3 Bb4 54. Bc3 Bc5 55. b4 Bxf2 56. Kxf5
Ke8 57. Ke5 Kd7 58. Kd5 Rd6+ 59. Kxc4 Kc6 60. Rf3 Bb6 61.
a4 Rd7 62. Be5 Kb7 63. Rg3 Bc7 64. Rg7 Rxg7 65. Bxg7 Bd6 66.
b5 axb5+ 67. axb5 Bc7 68. b6 Kxb6 69. Kd4 1/2-1/2
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