The lion was not dead! Exchampion Vishy Anand showed some real
exciting chess as the Candidates tournament started in Khanty-Mansiysk
today. He quickly got an edge against World Number 2 GM Levon Aronian
and finished with precision. A big start for Vishy who once again showed
muscles with 1.e4. His h3-line against the Marshall-proved succesful today.
The games Andrikin-Kramnik, Mamedyarov-Topalov and Karjakin-Svidler
ended in draws. The second round will be played tomorrow at 10.00
Norwegian time.The paings are:Kramnik,Karjakin, Topalov-Anand,
Svidler-Andreikin and Aronian-Mamedyarov. Follow the games on the
homepage or on ChessBomb.
Read the report from round one in ChessBase.
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