Anand, as white, had simply an extra pawn and this is where the tenacity of Carlsen came to fore.
The 15-year old made sure of his third and final International Master norm after a quick draw with compatriot and Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte in the eighth and penultimate round of the Dubai Open.
The world champion wants Garry Kasparov to come back from retirement so that he can play one more game against the Russian.
Top seed Shakriyaz Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan is well-placed to win the title in the World Jr chess championship.
Asian junior girls champion Mary Ann Gomes made a stride forward for the gold medal after defeating Maria Ignacz of Hungary in the sixth round of the Under-18 section of World youth girls' chess championship in Antalya
Kadir Guseimov of Azerbaijan kept the top spot in the boys' section in the World Jr chess championships.
The top seeded Indian was beaten by Jolanta Zawadzka of Poland in the 11th round of the World Junior girls' chess championship.
Top seed D Harika scored a thumping victory over Sabrina Vega Gutierrez of Spain to reclaim sole second spot after the end of the eighth round in the World Junior Girls' chess championship in Yerevan, Armenia, on Friday.
The Indian Grandmaster is half a point ahead of second-placed Zhao Jun of China after nine round in the World Junior Chess Championship.
The Indian Grandmaster drew with third seed Evgeny Alekseev of Russia in the sixth round in the World Junior chess championship.
D Harika drew with Gu Xiaobing of China in the 11th round of the World Junior Chess Championship
Parimarjan Negi drew his fifth round match with Andrey Zhigalko of Belarus to take another stride towards to his International Master title at the World Junior Chess Championships.
Former Indian cricketer Farokh Engineer hailed IPL being the 'envy of the world' but said Test cricket cannot be sacrificed.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand continued his fine form to outwit Anish Giri of Holland and move into the sole lead after the end of the second round of Zurich Chess Challenge, in Zurich, on Sunday.
Five-time World chess champion Viswanathan Anand has described this year which saw him surrender the world crown to Norwegian Magnus Carlsen as a 'horrible' one.
The Indian GM beat Monroy Charles of France in the inaugural round of the World junior chess championship.
Magnus Carlsen has expressed "deep disappointment" at world chess's governing body FIDE's decision to award the World Championship final to Viswanathan Anand's hometown Chennai, accusing it of 'lack of transparency'.
16-year old Deep Sengupta shocked third seed Russian GM Evgeny Alekseev to move to second place with 7.5 points.
Harikrishna, Tigran Petrosian and Zhao Jun jointly lead the table with six points each after the seventh round in the World Junior Chess Championship.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
Humpy cruised to an easy victory over Sabure in the first round of World women's chess championship.
The defending champion scored an easy victory over Tian Tian of China in the fourth round of the tournament.
After six rounds, the Woman Grandmaster has four points from six games and looks good for a medal at the World Junior Chess championships.
N Srinath regined supreme in the boys' Under-12 section in the World Youth Chess Championships.
World champion Viswanathan Anand opened his account with a draw against lowest-ranked Dmitry Andreikin of Russia in the second round of Tal Memorial Chess tournament in Moscow.
P Harikrishna leads by seven points after completion of eight rounds in the World Junior Chess championship.
With just two rounds left in the World Youth chess championship, the Indian lass need just a victory and a draw to secure the girls' under-14 title.
WGM Dronavalli Harika took the seventh round honours with a brilliant victory to emerge the sole leader in the under-14 girls section of the World Youth Chess Championship in Greece.
The Indian lad took sole lead after the sixth round in the under-12 section of the World Youth chess championships.
The top seed is way ahead of second-placed P Harikrishnan after the 15th round in the National 'A' men's chess championship.
S Poobesh Anand continued with his dream run with another brilliant victory, crushing Grandmaster Ernesto Inarkiev of Russia in the 10th round of the 41st World Junior Chess Championship.
The Grandmaster-in-waiting beat Grandmaster Bu Xiangzhi in the ninth round of the World junior chess championships to jointly share the lead with eight players.
WGM Zhao Xue of China emerged sole leader after the seventh round in the World junior chess championships.
The defending champion was held by seventh seed Zhao Xue of China in the World Junior chess championships.
The Indian ace held Frenchman Joel Lautier in the fifth round of the World Rapid Chess Championship.
The top seeded Indian GM settled for a short draw with Wang Yu of China in the sixth round of the 19th World junior girls' chess championship.
International Master D Harika is the second Indian girl to emerge Junior World champion. Koneru Humpy won the crown in 2001.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
Winning the world championship for the fifth time after a nerve-wracking tie-breaker, Viswanathan Anand said he was too tense to be happy and was relieved that the result went in his favour.
India was held to a 3-3 draw by lower-ranked Mongolia in the sixth round as favourites China grabbed the top spot in Pool A in the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad on Saturday.
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