In the battle between the legends who have 11 World titles between them, Viswanathan Anand defeated Garry Kasparov in the Croatia Grand Chess Tour at Zagreb on Saturday.
Their fourth-round game in the the blitz section ended in anticlimactic fashion though, with Kasparov, who no longer is active as a player, losing on time. Anand was in a winning a position, however.
The day though had begun badly for the Chennai Grandmaster, who went down to Anish Giri of the Netherlands. But he bounced back with a win over Jan-Krzysztof Duda of Poland and then drew with France’s Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the third round. The Frenchman was among the four men in the lead with 14 rounds of blitz remaining.
The standings: 1-4. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Fra), Ian Nepomniachtchi (Rus), Anish Giri (Ned) and Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Pol) 13.5 points; 5-6. Alexander Grischuk (Rus) and Viswanathan Anand 11.5; 7. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Aze) 11; 8. Garry Kasparov (Rus)/Ivan Saric (Cro) 10.5; 9. Anton Korobov (Ukr) 9; 10. Jorden Van Foreest (Ned) 7.5.
