Viswanathan Anand bounces back in Norway, beats Fabiano Caruana

Former world champion Viswanathan Anand beat Fabiano Caruana of United States on Tuesday in the sixth round to register his first win of the Altibox Norway chess tournament.

Having lost two and drawn three, Anand was under pressure to find back his winning ways and the Indian ace did that in style at the expense of Caruana who suffered his first loss in the tournament.

Anand moved up to 2.5 points out of a possible six and two white games out of the remaining three rounds might just help him recover more.

Armenian Levon Aronian was the other winner of the day, accounting for a rather out-of-sort Vladimir Kramnik of Russia while world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway remained winless for the sixth day running as he was held to a draw by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.

In the other games of the day, Anish Giri of Holland missed out on some chances before signing peace with Wesley So of the United States and another American Hikaru Nakamura could not break the ice against Sergey Karjakin of Russia.

With three rounds still to come, Nakamura and Aronian now share the lead on four points and they enjoy a full point cushion over Giri, Kramnik, Karjakin and Wesley …read more