{"id":192559,"date":"2022-06-08T00:23:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=192559"},"modified":"2022-06-08T00:23:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:53:38","slug":"norway-chess-anand-giri-share-honours-in-round-six-carlsen-moves-into-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/06\/08\/norway-chess-anand-giri-share-honours-in-round-six-carlsen-moves-into-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway chess: Anand, Giri share honours in round six; Carlsen moves into lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stavanger, 7 Jun: Indian maestro Viswanathan Anand drew his sixth round contest against Anish Giri of the Netherlands in the Classical section of the Norway Chess tournament.<br \/>\nThe classical match ended in a draw after which the Armageddon ended in stalemate early on Tuesday to leave Anand on 11.5 points and in second place.<br \/>\nWorld champion Magnus Carlsen roared to the top spot with a victory over Azerbaijan&#8217;s Shakhriyar Mamedyarov to take his tally to 12.5 points after six rounds.<br \/>\nThe classical match between Anand, playing black, and Giri saw the two players shaking hands for a draw after 35 moves in an English Variation game.<br \/>\nIn the ensuing Armageddon (sudden death tie-break), the duo battled for 45 moves before it ended in a draw. As per Armageddon rules, the player playing black is deemed to have won the game if it ends in a draw.<br \/>\nThe 52-year old Indian superstar, who had shocked Carlsen in the previous round, takes on Teimour Radjabov in round eight.<br \/>\nBarring the Carlsen-Mamedyarov clash, all the other matches ended in draws in the round. The Norwegian world No.1 defeated his Azerbaijan opponent in 56 moves. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stavanger, 7 Jun: Indian maestro Viswanathan Anand drew his sixth round contest against Anish Giri of the Netherlands in the Classical section of the Norway Chess tournament. The classical match ended in a draw after which the Armageddon ended in stalemate early on Tuesday to leave Anand on 11.5 points and in second place. World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-192559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}