Gashimov Memorial chess: Anand ends Rapid occasion with two extra defeats

Indian chess maestro Viswanathan Anand misplaced each his matches within the Rapid occasion to finish his marketing campaign with only one victory on the seventh Vugar Gashimov Memorial chess match right here on Tuesday.
The former world champion Indian misplaced to Fabiano Caruana of USA 0.5-1.5 in his first match of the day earlier than happening to lower-rated Azerbaijan participant Vugar Asadli by the identical margin.
Anand’s solely win within the Rapid part got here towards Shakriyar Mamedyarov within the sixth spherical on Monday. He completed with a tally of 5.5 factors from seven rounds.

His defeats got here towards Sergey Karjakin of Russia, Richard Rapport of Hungary, Rauf Mamedov of Azerbaijan and David Navara of Czech Republic.
Anand will now compete within the Blitz occasion starting on Wednesday.
The Gashimov Memorial match this yr is being performed as a speedy and blitz chess match.The blitz video games might be performed over two days on Wednesday and Thursday.