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V Anand (2783) vs V Kramnik (2772) 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Anand again opens with d4. He is showing immense confidence. Anand deviates from the Game 2 continuation. It's a bit surprising. We all thought that he should have been happy with that position. Looks like he has something else in store. 3 .... d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bf4 O-O 6.e3 Nbd7 Kramnik wisely avoids complications that ensue with 6 ... c5 where Anand will be more comfortable. 7.a3 c5 8.cxd5 Nxd5 9.Nxd5 exd5 10.dxc5 Nxc5 11.Be5 Bf5 11 ... Bf6 is more popular. 12.Be2 Bf6 Offers to exchange the strong bishop. White still maintains an edge though. 13.Bxf6 Qxf6 14.Nd4 Ne6 15.Nxf5 Qxf5 16.O-O Rfd8 Kramnik is playing fast. He seems to be well prepared today after yesterday's fiasco. 17.Bg4 Qe5 18.Qb3 Nc5 19.Qb5 Anand is trying hard to squeeze some advantage out of the position, but it seems to be dead equal and not the kind of position that Anand would like to be in. The more unbalanced, the better he usually feels. 19 ... b6 ...

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)

Levon Aronian of Armenia seems to be in top form so far. Today he beat Gelfand with the black pieces in a Slav Defence game in impressive style. Carlsen beat Eljanov. As we mentioned before, Eljanov appears to be overwhelmed by the strong field. Carlsen ground him down with his usual efficiency. Vishy Anand had his chances and dominated proceedings for a long time, but let the harassed Mamedyarov off the hook with an error in a Rooks and pawns end game. Van Wely too dominated only to let Polgar escape with a draw. Results of Round 2 at Corus chess: Group A Carlsen, Magnus - Eljanov, Pavel 1-0 Gruenfeld 5.Bg5 Kramnik, Vladimir - Radjabov, Teimour ½-½ King's Indian Classical Van Wely, Loek - Polgar, Judit ½-½ Nimzo Indian 4.Nf3 Lékó, Peter - Adams, Michael (Prob a draw) Ruy Lopez Chigorin Topalov, Veselin - Ivanchuk, Vassily ½-½ Benoni Gelfand, Boris - Aronian, Levon 0-1 30 Slav Defence Anand, Viswanathan - Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar ½-½ Ruy Lopez Modern Steinitz Group B Short, Nigel D ...