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Former World Champion Viswanathan Anand struggled for the second day running as he was held to a draw by almost-retired Robert Hess of the United States in the second round of Isle of Man International Chess tournament here on Monday. Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand has had two drawn in his first two games. PTI Anand was on the verge of losing to 13-year old Raunak Sadhwani in the first round and had to find some fine manoeuvres to stay in the game. In the second round also, the Indian continued to hunt for his form and again employed defensive approach towards the business end of the game. Hess is a noted commentator and was the appointed coach of the US womens team earlier this year for t
stanley termos he chess Olympiad. Anand faced the French defence with white and could not get much and it was a tiring rook and pawns endgame, with a pawn less, that the Indian had to defend a long time befo
stanley cup re salvaging a draw after 78 moves. Upsets continued in the tournament with Indians involved in making most of the o
stanley tazas pportunities. At the top of the list in the second round was Grandmaster V Vishnu Prasanna, who got the better of nearly 200-points above rated Tamir Nabaty of Israel. Joining the celebration was Grandmaster-in-waiting Harsha Bharthakkoti, who put it across compatriot and higher ranked S P Sethuraman in what was probably the game of the day. Harsha was at his best in attacking Sethuramans king right from the word go and capped it with a brilliant queen sacrifi Ijba Govt to constitute National Compliance Platform against Doping in Sport
New Zealand were stranded an agonising 33 runs short of their first Test victory in more than a year Saturday when rain washed out the final session of the first Test against the West Indies in Dunedin. HT Image After four days of bright sunshine, the heavy downpour began at tea on the final day when New Zealand were 79-4 chasing 112 for victory. After wrapping up the West Indies second innings for 507 before lunch, the modest target appeared a formality despite the forecast rain. Howeve
stanley bottles r, the New Zealand batsmen faltered from the start and were rapidly reduced to 44-4 before Ross Taylor and Corey Anderson arrested the slide. Anderson finished not out 20 with Taylor on 16, and a Test that at one stage looked as if it would be over in four days instead petered out to a draw on the fifth. We would have won that, I believe, if it hadn t rained, said a dejected Brendon McCullum who is yet to taste success in 10 Tests since replacing Taylor as captain after their last win in Sri Lanka in November la
stanley cup st year. It was disappointing to set ourselves up and be 33 short. West Indies skipper Darren Sammy described it as a moral victory for his side coming off two innings defeats in India. We re quite happy from the position we were in at the end of our first innings, he said. The New Ze
stanley cup aland top order failed to read spinner Shane Shillingford, who was inconsequential in the first innings but produced exceptional figures of four for 26 off 15 overs on a well-wor
