Viswanathan Anand lost to Magnus Carlsen in Armageddon

Viswanathan Anand lost to Magnus Carlsen in Armageddon

Viswanathan Anand defeat against world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the Armageddon game at the Altibox Norway Chess Tournament. 
Finally some finely disguised manoeuvres in the Armageddon game where the Indian played another black.
Armageddon rule invented for a super tournament for the first time.
Carlsen, Aronian, Mamedyarov, Liren and Yangyi have 1.5 points apiece and enjoy a full point lead over the other five contestants.
Chinese Ding Liren first to score a brilliant victory over Wesley So of United States 
Yu Yangyi followed but Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France failed to spot an intermittent check with the queen and instead landed in complications. 
Azeri Shakhriyar Mamedyarov for American Fabiano Caruana whose reputation in the faster version of the game suffered another setback
Levon Aronian won on time against Alexander Grischuk of Russia.

About Viswanathan Anand
Title: Grandmaster (1988)
World Champion:2000–2002 (FIDE) , 2007–2013

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