Wijk Aan Zee (The Netherlands): India’s Viswanathan Anand drew with World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway, while P Harikrishna defeated Loek van Wely of Holland in the fifth round of the Tata Steel chess tournament here on Friday.
World champion Anand, who had defeated Armenian Levon Aronian in his last game, did not get the desired results against Carlsen and the Norwegian held his own to draw comfortably. Meanwhile Van Wely fell prey to some wild tactics to Harikrishna on a day which produced five decisive games out of a possible seven.
Aronian came back in reckoning defeating Ivan Sokolov of Holland, Chinese Wang Hao scalped for another Dutch Erwin L'Ami, American Hikaru Nakamura proved much superior to Yifan Hou of China and Hungarian Peter Leko scored over Fabiano Caruana of Italy. The other game was a draw between Russian Sergey Karjakin and local star Anish Giri.
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Results round 5: V Anand (Ind, 3.5) drew with Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 3.5); Sergey Karjakin (Rus, 3.5) drew with Anish Giri (Ned, 2); Peter Leko (Hun, 3) beat Fabiano Caruana (Ita, 2); Yifan Hou (Chn, 1) lost to Hikaru Nakamura (Usa, 3); Ivan Sokolov (Ned, 1.5) lost to Levon Aronian (Arm, 2.5); P Harikrishna (Ind, 3) beat Loek Van Wely (Ned, 2); Erwin L'Ami (Ned, 1.5) drew with Wang Hao (Chn, 3).
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