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World Chess Championship 2014, the Indian Tiger is still alive, Vishy holds draw in marathonic game against Carlsen.

Another spanish opening, another Berlin defense, this time Vishy seemed to be unprepared as he spent nearly as twice the time spent by Carlsen, and soon got under immense pressure, some moves after it came time to make a very difficult decision, to suffer a slow agony or to give up a bishop for 2 pawns to enter an inferior endgame that many say is a "petite bouchee" for the norwegian genius. Soon, twitter exploded in comments that this was nearly lost game for Anand, but the Tiger built a fortress around his king with his pawns and repelled attack after attack from the norwegian berserker until they entered the Rook + Knight VS Rook endgame that many claimed was a "dead draw",except for a known dutch GrandMaster that suffered a humiliating defeat in the hands of the berserker himself, just look what the victim twitted:


Wow that poor guy just lasted 19 moves in that endgame. But Vishy is a superclassy GM and secured the draw in 122 !!! moves just a couple of moves from the world record set by Karpov-Korchnoi back in 1978. Vishy is still alive where many saw him dead,he has still 3 games with white in the next 5 games, the match has been very exciting so far.

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