The Chess Ghost

Life is not always sweet, Magnus and Anand will switch places in January 2011. Let the race begins! The race between the Asians & the Westerns. Anand will not be the last Asian rival in the western dominant chess world. I believe that there will more to come. Looking at the latest development,  Hou Yifan   from China has proven that they have been prepared for this - to look & to conquer the chess world. Magnus Carlsen loses to Anand . | Photo © Fred Lucas. |  http://www.fredlucas.eu/ Rank Name Country Rating 1 Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2814 2 Anand, Viswanathan IND 2810 3 Aronian, Levon ARM 2805 4 Kramnik, Vladimir RUS 2784 5 Karjakin, Sergey RUS 2776 6 Topalov, Veselin BUL 2775 7 Grischuk, Alexander RUS 2773 8 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE 2772 9 Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR 2764 10 Nakamura, Hikaru USA 2751 Source:  FIDE Ratings January 2011

Young Anand. Viswanathan Anand won a very hard fought match 6.5-5.5 against his challenger Veselin Topalov to retain his title. In the final game Topalov's quest for complications led to trouble and he couldn't recover from a bad blunder. Source: TWIC