{"id":182,"date":"2021-07-10T00:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T19:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=123815"},"modified":"2021-07-10T00:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T19:24:05","slug":"viswanathan-anand-plays-out-draws-in-seventh-and-eighth-rounds-at-zagreb-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/viswanathan-anand-plays-out-draws-in-seventh-and-eighth-rounds-at-zagreb-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Viswanathan Anand plays out draws in seventh and eighth rounds at Zagreb event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand drew both of his seventh and eighth session games in the Rapid tournament of Croatia Grand Chess Tour on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Grandmaster moved to second place following a win and two draws on day two after six rounds of Croatia Grand Chess Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Anand played black pieces and was clenched to a draw by Ivan Saric of Croatia in 48 moves in a Sicilian Four Knights variation game.<\/p>\n<p>Former world chess champion Anand had before, experienced the honours with Jan-Kryzstof Duda, the Polish Grandmaster in the seventh round in a 74-move Ruy Lopez game. He has been off to a varied start of the Croatia Chess Tour tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Viswanathan Anand as yet, has won two, drawn five and lost one game to top ranked chess Grandmaster of France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, so far.<\/p>\n<p>All the games of rounds seven and eight were drawn incidentally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results:<\/strong> 8th round- Viswanathan Anand drew with Ivan Saric, Ian Nepomniachtchi drew with Jorden Van Foreest, Anton Korobov drew with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Shakriyar Mamedyarov drew with Anish Giri, Alexander Grischuk drew with Jan-Kryzstof Duda.<\/p>\n<p>7th round- Anand drew with Duda, Grischuk drew with Korobov, Saric drew with Mamedyarov, Giri drew with Nepomniachtchi, Van Foreest drew with Vachier-Lagrave.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand drew both of his seventh and eighth session games in the Rapid tournament of Croatia\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":23325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1087,2030,1731,2029,2260],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-chess","tag-chess-grandmaster","tag-croatia","tag-grandmaster","tag-viswanathan-anand"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}