The Hindu : Anand helps his team post easy win

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Sunday, Dec 15, 2002

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Anand helps his team post easy win

Chennai Dec. 14 . World Cup champion Viswanathan Anand helped his German team SC Baden Oos to a comfortable 5-3 away win over Stuttgart in the fifth round of the German league chess season held at Stuttgart in Germany on Friday night. Anand scored a smooth, strategic 38-move victory over Rainer Buhmann on the top board with the white pieces from a French defence.

Lubeck with plenty of English players led by Michael Adams is leading after four completed rounds with 25 points. Koln Porz is on second place with 22 points after four rounds (32 games).

This is Anand's third game of the season. He had earlier beaten Czech GM Hracek of SV Werder Bremen with the black pieces and drawn his training partner Vallejo Pons of Spain in another match against Turm Emsdetten. His score is 2.5 from three games.

His team, SC Baden Oos is in the middle of the points table with 21.5 points from 40 games.

For Baden Oos, the scoring came from the top led by Anand on Friday. German Olympic player Rustem Dautov won on the third board won with the white pieces while Michal Krasenkow of Poland and Robert Huebner drew in the second and fourth table to secure the match for Baden Oos.

On Sunday, Anand plays another league game for his team and is likely to face grandmaster Khenkin on the top board of the Baden Oos versus TV Tegernsee.— Our Chess Correspondent

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