Chess

Anand wins, extends lead over Kramnik

World champion Viswanathan Anand scored his second sensational victory with black against Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the fifth game of the world championship, thus extending his lead to two points.

The victory took Anand to 3.5 points out of a possible 5 and he now leads by a huge 2 points margin. The fact that both his victories have come as black is a clear indication that Anand is simply turning out to be the much better prepared player in the match.

With seven rounds still to come its probably not all-over for Kramnik, but the Russian will have to do strike back very quickly in order to stay in the match. As things stand, Anand has four white games remaining out of sevens and the some experts say that the Indian is all set to retain the world championship crown.

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