Anand defeats Gelfand in World Chess Championship match-up round 8

PanARMENIAN.Net - Viswanathan Anand showed just why one can never count him out. After an error-prone Game 7 where Boris Gelfand won and took the lead in the World Championship match-up, the Indian struck back to win in just 17 moves, First Post reported.

Of course, Anand was helped by big errors from Gelfand on the 13th and 16th moves. It almost seemed like Gelfand forgot his preparation and his resignation seemed pre-mature. Certainly Veselin Topalov, Anand’s opponent in the last WCC match-up, wouldn’t have given up so tamely.

It looked like Anand had made a serious positional mistake with 9.Bxf6 giving up the dark squared bishop, but after a few concrete moves he showed that he was in control.

The score in the championship is now once again tied at 4-4.