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Carlsen beat Anand in the 6th round of the Linares Open tournament, thus breaking his drawing jinx. Anand played provacatively abandoning caution and missed several drawing chances. Carlsen played his steady game to slowly overpower Anand in an endgame that was reduced to a Rook vs Knight one. One gets the feeling that Anand is operating at a much higher risk taking level after the match against Kramnik. In most games, he is managing to frighten his opponents, but when faced with solid play, he tends to slip a bit and hand over the game.

The rating favorites won through to the Quarterfinal stage of Cap D'Agde. It's amazing how ratings play a part even in rapid games, nay, even blitz games. Karpov beat 14 year old Hou Yifan to advance to the knock out stage. Update: Karpov beat Caruana to advance to the Semi-finals. The young teen put up stiff resistance and the regular rapid games ended at 1-1 with a win each. Karpov, who is playing a gruelling schedule (yesterday's tie-break games against Yifan and today's games) beat back Caruana challenge in the 3 minutes+2 seconds increment games. Radjabov suffered a tragic loss to Ivanchuk in the Quarterfinals. More details about it after this game. So, Radjabov had a won position with his Queen for Rook and Bishop. But Ivanchuk defended tenaciously to draw the game. Radjabov lost the next two blitz games probably out of the shock of the "silly" draw in a winning position. What a pity! 1/2-1/2 Quarter finals Carlsen vs Xianghzhi Caruana vs Karpov 3.5 - 2...

Topalov remains in the lead after the 5th round of the Grand Slam final at Bilbao. Carlsen is on his heels a point behind. The tournament adopts an unique 3-1-0 scoring system. Most of the games have been well fought and the winner will really deserve the huge prize money that the tournament offers. Round 5 results: Round 5 Ivanchuk, Vassily - Topalov, Veselin ½-½ (Nimzo Indian Defence) Radjabov, Teimour - Aronian, Levon ½-½ (Scotch ) Anand, Viswanathan - Carlsen, Magnus ½-½ (Ruy Lopez Schliemann)

Carlsen has ascended the throne of the live chess ratings. He is currently no. 1 with Anand now on 2nd. Topalov has started moving up rapidly. On home turf, he has now beaten the no. 1 and 2 on this list in this very tournament. Aronian too is making a sort of a comeback to the elite group though he has a lot of catching up to do. Current live chess rankings: 1 Carlsen 2792 2 Anand 2791 3 Morozevich 2787 4 Topalov 2786 5 Ivanchuk 2782 6 Kramnik 2772 7 Aronian 2754 8 Radjabov 2749 9 Leko 2747 10 Adams 2736

Carlsen is now only two points away from tying with Anand for the live chess ratings world no. 1 position ! Anand is at 2798 and Carlsen at 2795.9 01 V Anand 2798 02 M Carlsen 2795.9 03 V Ivanchuk 2791.5 04 A Morozevich 2788 05 V Topalov 2777 06 V Kramnik 2772.9 07 P Leko 2746 08 Radjabov 2744 09 S Mamedyarov 2740.8 10 A Shirov 2739.4