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Anand vs. Shirov...

Anand vs. Shirov...

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starts at 10:30 am eastern usa time today! Game/45 + 30 sec/move from move one. 6 games will be played even if match is decided before game 6.

Tie match leads to two 5 minute games then an armageddon game(5 min for white-4min for black-black draw=win)

official site... http://www.advancedchessleon.com/

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Anand leads 1.5-0.5

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In game 3 Anand smothers Shirov in a 17 move Caro-Kann!

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Hard for a mere mortal to see why he resigned so early in game 3.

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Anand leads 3-1

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Both those Advance Caro-Kann games were brutal. Like so one sided you can be sure Gelfand won't be playing the Advance vs. Anand.

Here's game 5, the second C-K game: