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Vishy Anand wins Moscow chess championship | |
(about 2 hours later) | |
World chess champion Vishy Anand has retained his title against Israeli Boris Gelfand. | |
The Indian player beat his rival 2.5-1.5 in a tie-breaker round of four short games after they ended a 12-game series level. | |
The world chess championship was being played in Moscow for the first time since Garry Kasparov beat Anatoly Karpov in 1985. | |
Anand has been champion since 2007. His challenger is ranked 20th in the world. | |
The winner told a press conference that the game was "incredibly tense", news agency AFP reported. | |
"The match was so even that I had no sense of what shape the tie-break would take... I am really too tense to be happy, but there is relief," he said. | |
Rivalry | Rivalry |
Anand walks away with $1.5m in prize money, while runner-up Gelfand gets $1m. | |
The pair played behind glass at one of Russia's top museums, the State Tretyakov Gallery, watched by hundreds of chess fans. | |
The championship did not make great viewing for the audience, says the BBC's Daniel Sandford in Moscow, unlike the match between Kasparov and Karpov 27 years ago. | |
Of the 12 games played, the pair have won only one each, with the rest ending as draws. | Of the 12 games played, the pair have won only one each, with the rest ending as draws. |
The epic battle in Moscow between Kasparov and Karpov is considered one of the game's greatest episodes. | The epic battle in Moscow between Kasparov and Karpov is considered one of the game's greatest episodes. |
The initial contest in 1984 lasted five months before being called off over concerns for the players' health, as both had lost weight. | The initial contest in 1984 lasted five months before being called off over concerns for the players' health, as both had lost weight. |
Kasparov finally took the title at a rematch in 1985. | Kasparov finally took the title at a rematch in 1985. |