The World Cup champion drew with Dutch GM Loek Van Wely to share the top place with Evgeny Bareev, Anatoly Karpov and Judit Polgar after the third round in the 65th Corus chess tournament.
World Cup champion Viswanathan Anand started off with a quick 28-move draw against Azerbaijani sensation Grandmaster Teimour Radjabov in the opening round of the 65th Corus Grandmaster Group tournament
The Indian ace won the first game with black pieces and then drew the second with white to score over the Bulgarian.
The Indian ace drew his last round game against Ivan Sokolov to ensure that he retained the Corus Grandmasters chess title.
The Indian GM registered his first win with black pieces in the 66th edition of the Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Anand has not lost his last 59 games played in the Category 19 event.
The world's 14 top-ranked players are taking part in the tournament.
Judit Polgar of Hungary continues to breathe down Anand's neck.
The victory enabled the Indian ace maintain the sole lead in the Corus chess championship.
The former world champion inflicted a 60-move defeat on the Bulgarian in the second round of the 65th Corus chess tournament.
Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw with black against local star Anish Giri but slipped to joint second spot after the sixth round of Tata Steel Chess tournament, in Wijk Aan Zee, on Saturday.
Despite the draw Anand maintained a half point lead in the Corus Chess tournament.
Anand settled for a quick draw against Vassily Ivanchuk. He shares the lead with Judit Polgar and Evgeny Bareev.
The former world champion is pitted against a tough field, with seven of the world's top ten vying for honours in the 65th edition of the tournament.
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With his third victory in the event, Anand came back within striking distance of the leaders. His tally of six points out of ten is only one point less than Holland's Anish Giri, Norway's Magnus Carlsen and Azerbaijan's Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, all who have seven points apiece.
World rapid champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw with world No 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the ninth round of the Tata Steel Masters in Wijk Aan Zee, the Netherlands. Settling for his sixth draw in nine games, Anand took his tally to five points and remains joint-sixth in the 14 players, 13-round tournament.
With his third draw in five games, the reigning world rapid champion remained in joint lead on 3.5 points and now shares the lead with Anish Giri of Holland and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan.
On what turned out to be an easy day, Anand had to stretch himself only a little as Karjakin did not attempt any complicated warfare. The result was exchanging of pieces at regular intervals and the players signed peace in an opposite coloured Bishops endgame.
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