Candidates Tournament never fails to show its audience the entertainment they expect out of one of the important tournaments in chess. With the tournament coming to an end, blood is spilling everywhere for the first place.
Round 11 saw the game of the day between Anand and Karjakin. Anand opened with e4 and the Russian Grandmaster opted for the berlin defense, one of the best defense against the e4 which slowly steers the game for a draw. What looked to be drawn endgame of opposite coloured bishops and a rook, Anand managed to find the win by slowly improving his position. Anand only have one game with the white pieces , but the opponent is Anish Giri who has not lost any games and have drawn all.
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| Vishy Anand now is in the lead with Fabiano Caruana |
The other decisive game was between Peter Svidler and Levon Aronian. With his loss, Aronian has slipped a few ranks and is tied in 4th place with Anish Giri and Peter Svidler. The task of achieving a victory in the tournament means going all in in the remaining three games for a win, most probably.
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Aronian Loss with the white pieces against Svidler may have cost him the tournament.
With that being is said , lets take a look at the current standings.
| # | Name | Pts | SB |
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| 1 | Caruana, Fabiano | 6.5 | 34.5 |
| Anand, Viswanathan | 6.5 | 34 |
| 3 | Karjakin, Sergey | 6 | 32.25 |
| 4 | Giri, Anish | 5.5 | 30.5 |
| Svidler, Peter | 5.5 | 28.75 |
| Aronian, Levon | 5.5 | 28.25 |
| 7 | Nakamura, Hikaru | 4.5 | 24.5 |
| 8 | Topalov, Veselin | 4 | 23.75 |
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