Anand Wins Against Topalov

Indian Grand Master, Vishwanathan Anand, today demolished world champion and local favourite ,Veselin Topalov, in a Spanish closed variation at the M-tel Masters chess championship being held in Sofia, Bulgaria.

This was Anand's second consecutive win with the black pieces, after his first round defeat of Bacrot.

The Moves for the game are as follows....

[White "GMTopalov"]
[Black "GMAnand"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2804"]
[BlackElo "2803"]
[ECO[ 15]: C88.15
NIC[ 13]: RL.17.1
LONG[ 15]: Spanish: Closed, 8.h3]


1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8.
h3 Bb7 9. d3 Re8 10. c3 h6 11. Nbd2 Bf8 12. a3 d6 13. Ba2 Nb8 14. b4 c5 15.
Nb3 Nc6 16. Rb1 Bc8 17. Be3 Be6 18. Qc2 Rc8 19. Qb2 c4 20. dxc4 Bxc4 21.
Nbd2 Bxa2 22. Qxa2 d5 23. Rbd1 d4 24. cxd4 exd4 25. Nb3 Nxe4 26. Bxd4 Nxd4
27. Rxd4 Ng5 28. Ne5 Nxh3+ 29. gxh3 Qg5+ 30. Kh2 Qf5 31. Rde4 Rxe5 32. Rxe5
Bd6 33. Nc5 Bxe5+ 34. Kg2 Rc6 35. Qb3 Rg6+ 36. Kf1 Bg3 [White Resigned 0-1]

On hindsight Topalov's 27.Rxd4 maybe was over ambitious. Anand with black pieces never appeared to be in any trouble after a tactical opening. Once Topalov made the overambitious move, Anand found the win and took it. With this win Anand has laid to rest the ghosts of San louis world championship loss last year.

Category: Chess , M-Tel Masters