Viswanathan Anand take a lead

Viswanathan Anand angry the alarm aback and reproduced his abundant accustomed abilities in acceleration chess to accessible a two-point advance afterwards 14 circuit in the aperture annular of the World assault chess championship in Moscow on Monday.

In a 22-player double-round robin format, Anand denticulate a whopping 12 credibility by acceptable 10, including the aftermost bristles rounds, and cartoon four in this invitational field.

The players face anniversary added twice, already with anniversary colour, in this three-day event. For anniversary game, a amateur gets three account for the accomplished bold additional two abnormal of accession per move.

Norway’s Magnus Carlsen was additional with 10 points, across-the-board of nine victories, but absent decidedly to Anatoly Karpov, Vugar Gashimov and women’s World best Alexendra Kosteniuk.

Exceeding all expectations, 58-year-old Karpov was captivation the third abode with nine points.