Anand - Carlsen World Championship Round 2 - Draw

Chess World Championship between Viswanathan Anand vs Magnus Carlsen reached round two and another , short, draw. Carlsen was black, Anand started with 1.e4 and surprised by Carlsen's Caro Kann defence. The game did reach an hour but ended in 25 moves when Queens was exchanged and the board indeed looks drawish.

With this result we assumed both players are heading for more opening surprises strategy, and they did not want to go beyond unknown position.

Although two draws was disappointed to some chess fans, Garry Kasparov gives a chilling comments by saying his match with Anand started with 5 draws. Well, maybe not a short one, Garry.

A list of viewable game commentaries are here:

by GM Alejandro Ramirez and Joshua Friedel in Chessbase
This Week In Chess - Mark Crowther
by CM Peter Dodgers - Chessvibes
by Dennis Monokraossos
by IM Aman Hambleton - Chessdom
by IM Andrew Martin - video analysis Youtube
by Daniel King - video analysis Playchess.com  Youtube
by GM Bachar Kouatly - video analysis in FRENCH Youtube

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Anand vs Carlsen , WCC 2013 Round 2:

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Nf3 e6 8. Ne5
Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 Nd7 11. f4 Bb4+ 12. c3 Be7 13. Bd2 Ngf6 14. O-O-O O-O
15. Ne4 Nxe4 16. Qxe4 Nxe5 17. fxe5 Qd5 18. Qxd5 cxd5 19. h5 b5 20. Rh3 a5 21.
Rf1 Rac8 22. Rg3 Kh7 23. Rgf3 Kg8 24. Rg3 Kh7 25. Rgf3 Kg8 1/2-1/2

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