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World Championship: Even Stevens

: Created:14 Nov 2014 , by

It is all to play for after the fifth game and dare one whisper that the title could be returning to the Indian Sub-Continent. Vishy Anand has been bold and positive so far and not intimidated by Magnus Carlsen's undoubted aura.

The fourth game played yesterday saw Carlsen avoiding main line theory in favour of slow pressure. Anand's Sicilian stood up well and Carlsen could make not make the white pieces count.

Today Carlsen tried the Queen's Indian Defence in reply to Anand's 1.d4. The position looked a little uncomfortable for Carlsen but he found a way to eliminate the queenside pawns. Cue Reuben Fine in "Basic Chess Endings" who opined that, "If you are one pawn ahead, in 99 cases out of a 100 the game is drawn if there are pawns on only one side of the board". Although his pawn formation was fractured Carlsen was not a pawn behind and sure technique saw the players draw quickly.