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Adams shocks Anand
By Arvind Aaron

LINARES, MARCH 2. Michael Adams of England bounced back from Thursday's loss to Garry Kasparov to shock Viswanathan Anand in the sixth round of the 19th City of Linares chess tournament here on Friday.

Adams moved to three points after his second victory in the tournament and the first over Anand in four years. Adams, 30, won in 44 moves with white. After suffering his first defeat Anand is on two points from five games.

Anand who had been in trouble before making draws in all his four previous games lost playing a slightly minus queen ending. Adams who played the French defence made use of a pawn fracture on black's queen side to his advantage.

Anand's trainer GM Elizbar Ubilava ruled out black being in danger in the queen and pawn ending after white's 27th move. However, the situation changed fast thereafter with black conceding his king-side pawns without much compensation.

lThe results (sixth round): Michael Adams (Eng) 3 bt Viswanathan Anand (Ind) 2; Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr) 2 playing Garry Kasparov (Rus) 2.5; Alexei Shirov (Esp) 2 playing Francisco Vallejo (Esp) 2.5; Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr) 2 - bye.

The pairing for Saturday's seventh round: Kasparov v Shirov, Anand v Ponomariov, Ivanchuk v Adams, Vallejo - bye.

Fifth round: Vallejo 2.5 drew with Ponomariov 2; Anand 2 drew with Ivanchuk 2; Kasparov 2.5 bt Adams 2; Shirov (Esp) 2 - bye.

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