Indian chess maestro Viswanathan Anand ended his marketing campaign with only one win after shedding each his matches within the speedy occasion on the seventh Vugar Gashimov Memorial Chess Tournament right here on Tuesday.
The former world champion Indian suffered a 0.5-1.5 loss to Fabiano Caruana of USA in his opening match of the day.
Anand’s solely win within the speedy part got here towards Sankariyar Mamedyarov within the sixth spherical on Monday. He completed with 5.5 factors from seven rounds.
They misplaced towards Russia’s Sergei Karjakin, Hungary’s Richard Rapport, Azerbaijan’s Rauf Mamedov and Czech Republic’s David Navara.
Anand will now take part within the Blitz occasion beginning Wednesday.
This 12 months the Gashimov Memorial Tournament is being performed as a speedy and blitz chess match.
Blitz matches will likely be performed for 2 days on Wednesday and Thursday.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
