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By Our Chess Correspondent
Vishwanathan Anand
Karpov received 12,000 Euros as being the losing finalist. In the finals, Karpov took the lead by winning the first white game when he advanced his queen knight pawn and induced a dubious rook sacrifice from Anand to keep the material and win. In the reverse game, Anand spotted a blunder and won a root pawn with a knight using a pin to level the match 1-1. After two first tie break games were drawn, Anand took the lead in the second pair of tie-break games and he kept that by checkmating Karpov in the reverse blitz game for a 4-2 win. This year the fielded included a tougher pool but it did not make any difference to Anand who won smoothly till the finals and in the finals itself he showed tremendous resilience to come from behind to defeat 51-year old Karpov 1-1 in rapid chess, 1-1 in the first tie-break and 2-0 in the final blitz tie-break. Anand who won the World Cup at Hyderabad in October this year has had an unprecedented year winning most of the major competitions. He won the EuroTel Trophy at Prague ahead of Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and Anatoly Karpov in May and followed that up with a 4.5-3.5 match win against the world champion Ruslan Ponomariov at Frankfurt. His engagements for the year are not yet complete as he is playing a few German league games for Baden OS. The major events Anand has signed up to play include the two super category tournaments at Wijk aan Zee, Linares and the Amber Chess Tournament at the start of 2003. The moves: Game 2 Anand vs. Karpov. Petroff Defense. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. O-O Be7 8. Re1 Nd6 9. Bf4 O-O 10. c3 g6 11. Na3 a6 12. Nc2 Bf6 13. Ne3 Ne7 14. Qb3 c6 15. h3 Bg7 16. Re2 h6 17. Rae1 Be6 18. Qb4 Nec8 19. Ng4 a5 20. Qb3 a4 21. Qb4 g5 22. Bh2 Re8 23. b3 axb3 24. Qxb3 b5 25. Nge5 Ra6 26. Qc2 Ne7 27. Nd2 Nc4 28. Nb3 Ra7 29. Nc5 Bc8 30. Nxc6 1-0. Game 5 Karpov vs. Anand. Neo-Gruenfeld. 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. g3 d5 5. Bg2 dxc4 6. Na3 c5 7. O-O O-O 8. Nxc4 Be6 9. b3 Nc6 10. Bb2 Bxc4 11. bxc4 Ne8 12. e3 Nd6 13. Qe2 cxd4 14. exd4 Nf5 15. d5 Bxb2 16. Qxb2 Na5 17. Rac1 b6 18. Ne5 Rc8 19. Rfd1 Rc5 20. h4 Qc7 21. Qe2 Nd6 22. Nc6 Re8 23. Re1 e5 24. h5 Nxc6 25. dxc6 e4 26. hxg6 hxg6 27. Red1 Qxc6 28. Rd4 Rce5 29. Rcd1 Nf5 30. Rd5 Qf6 31. a4 e3 32. f4 Nxg3 33. Qf3 Qxf4 34. Rxe5 Rxe5 0-1, Game 6 Anand vs. Karpov. Sicilian Defence. 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Bc5 6. c3 Ne7 7. O-O Qc7 8. Nd2 Ng6 9. N2f3 Be7 10. Re1 d6 11. Ng5 Bxg5 12. Bxg5 Nd7 13. Qd2 O-O 14. Rad1 b5 15. Bf1 Bb7 16. Nb3 d5 17. h4 f6 18. Be3 Nxh4 19. Bf4 Ne5 20. Nd4 Rae8 21. exd5 Bxd5 22. b3 Nhg6 23. Bg3 Qc8 24. Rc1 Nf7 25. c4 bxc4 26. bxc4 Ba8 27. c5 e5 28. Nb3 Ne7 29. Na5 Nc6 30. Nc4 Rd8 31. Qc3 Bb7 32. Red1 Qe6 33. Nd6 Nxd6 34. cxd6 Kh8 35. Rb1 Ba8 36. Bc4 Qf5 37. Bd3 Qh5 38. Bxa6 Nd4 39. Rxd4 exd4 40. Qxd4 Bc6 41. a4 Rb8 42. Rc1 Bd7 43. Bd3 Rfd8 44. Bf1 Qa5 45. Bb5 Bxb5 46. axb5 Rxb5 47. Qe4 Rd5 48. Qe7 h6 49. Bf4 Rh5 50. d7 Kh7 51. Rd1 Rc5 52. Qe4+ f5 53. Qe7 Rc6 54. Bd2 Qa8 55. Bf4 Qa5 56. g3 Ra6 57. Be5 Rg6 58. Rd6 Rxd6 59. Qxg7+ 1-0.
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