Anand draws again, leads 4-3 overall

From Our Chess Correspondent
Sofia (Bulgaria) May 4 (PTI) World champion Viswanathan
Anand survived a scare from Veselin Topalov and settled for a
draw in a hard-fought game of the seventh match of the World
Chess Championship here.
Anand had to stave off a stiff challenge from Topalov,
who prepared a brilliant new idea to combat the Indian ace in
the Catalan opening on Monday.
The Game was evenly poised for a long time but Anand had
to do most of the thinking in the first part of the game.
It was effectively the toughest game for Anand since the
first game that he lost as Topalov came up with some
remarkable manoeuvres to keep the Indian ace in check.
Topalov's gameplan was simple and at the same time
effective after he sacrificed a piece early in the middle game
only for a positional compensation.
The new idea was in fact astonishing as Anand found.
Up a piece and trying to find adequate compensation for
his opponent, Anand could have felt more than once that he was
winning but Topalov's moves kept him under check.
A just indication was the fact that around the 20th move,
Anand had less than an hour on his clock to make the remaining
20 moves while Topalov had just consumed three minutes on his
clock.
While to some it might have meant a defeat for Anand, the
world champion, up against a new idea, was calm and composed
and kept Topalov's pieces at bay to get a decent yet
unenviable position.
Topalov tried many tricks but Anand always answered in
the right fashion which made the experts of the game believe
that Topalov's idea was great but it was probably only good
enough for a draw.
It took the players 58 moves to reach the drawn result
and it was by far the most exciting draw of the match so far.
PTI COR
MYR


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