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January 16, 2001
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Anand misses opportunity to tame KasparovGarry Kasparov and Alexander Morozevich share the lead after the third round in the Corus chess tournament. Both have 2.5 points. They are followed by Vishwanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Alexei Shirov and Jan Timman, with two points each, and Michael Adams, Peter Leko and Vassilly Ivanchuck, who all have 1.5 points. In Tuesday's third round matches, Kasparov and FIDE World champion Vishwanathan Anand agreed to a draw after 37 moves; Shirov and Fedorov drew; Piket and Leko drew; Timman beat Topalov; Morozevich beat Van Wely; Adams and Kramnik drew; Tiviakov and Ivanchuk drew. Meanwhile, Alexander Morozevich (ELO rating (ELO 2745) scored a superb victory in only 19 moves to catch up with the early leader Kasparov in the third round of play. Playing against Van Wely, who made a mistake on move 13: he should have played 13.0-0-0! but he did not and the game didn't last too long after that. Morozevich is one of the upcoming talents in the chess world and experts have been reckoning he will take on the world leaders soon and it looks like he has chosen this tournament to do so. Anand had a chance to go one up on the player regarded by many as the best ever but failed to capitalise on the chances that came his way. Twice he could have had a serious advantage. First, he could have played 18...b4! with beautiful blockading ideas (18...b4?! 19.c5! Nxc5 20.Bxf7 with strong initiative - Kasparov); and then Black could have played 32...c2! (instead of 32...Nc5), sealing White up to the first rank. The Corus chess tournament home page
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