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The combined event featuring rapid chess, advanced chess and blindfold chess offered a novel setting but the visitors were simply too strong for the local Grandmasters lined up at the international chess festival of Santurtzi. World No. 3 ranked Anand downed the local team's day one hero Jose Luis Fernandez 2-0 with two effortless blindfold victories. In the first, Anand played his recently developed opening skills in the Sicilian Najdorf with black pieces to win a pawn and then push it to the seventh rank and win in 36 moves. In the second game, Anand sacrificed a rook for minor piece to hunt down the black king in 29 moves from an Alekhine defence. Notably, Fernandez, the trainer of Spain's once best player Miguel Illescas of Barcelona had scored the lone point for the local outfit so far with two draws against Karpov on day one. In the final round Anand will play advanced chess against Grandmaster Felix Izeta while Karpov will play blindfold against Gomez and Judit Polgar will play rapid chess against Fernandez. Judit of Hungary matched the Indian win for a win beating Mario Gomez in both her advanced chess games to make a 2-0 sweep. However, she had to work longer and harder for her victories made in 47 and 66 moves. Karpov used lot of technique and deft manoeuvres to humble the Linares tournament's famous commentator, GM Izeta by 2-0 in 37 and 44 moves in the two rapid games. The taste of a win should sweeten Karpov's appetite for he had to wait for a full day before scoring his first point. When he won, he too won both games for a two win and two draw personal score in the event. Anand and Judit Polgar have won all four games they have played. There is one more day of hammering left for the host to take as the visitor has won the match and is now looking forward to make a clean sweep of it. The outcome clearly indicates a good concept but a clear mismatch in playing strengths of the two sides. — Our Chess Correspondent
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