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Is Carlsen coasting to victory?

: Created:19 Nov 2013 , by

There have been two more games and both have been drawn. Anand has four games left in which to save his world championship.

In game seven Carlsen once again defended against the Ruy Lopez with the Berlin Wall 3...Nf6. Anand got nothing out of the opening and Carlsen drew with great ease.

In the eighth Carlsen swtched to 1.e4 and Anand met the resulting Ruy Lopez with ... the Berlin Wall! Carlsen spent no more than 30 seconds on any of his moves and as the pieces disappeared from the board, it was inevitable because of the symmetrical pawn formation that the players would agree to share the point.