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Anand starts with a win
UNITED NEWS OF INDIA
DORTMUND, July 5: Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand started his campaign in
style by defeating Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine in the first round of the
Silver Jubilee International chess tournament being played here. Top-seeded
Vladimir Kramnik of Russia overcame World champion Anatoly Karpov to share
the lead with Anand. Ivanchuk tried the French defence today. Anand went
for a system which offered lively piece play at the cost of broken pawn
structure. According to experts monitoring the game, Ivanchuk opened a
pandora's box when he pushed a pawn on his twenty-fourth move.
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