World Chess Championship Anand-Topalov Game 10 – The tie-break looms large, as Anand draws

In the event of even points at the end of the two remaining games, a tie-break of four games of rapid chess will be played. To avoid this circumstance, Anand will come out in the next two games to reach the golden figure of 6.5 or more before counterpart Topalov.

He must make the right moves now!

At the moment the score stands at 5-5.

Game 10 saw Anand slightly on the backfoot as he played a hard game to earn the draw in the60^th move of the game. Topalov was working well but had no impact on Anand’s dynamic defense. After the match, one got the feeling that it is very unlikely that Topalov will breach this defense of Anand in the next two games. So, the question to be asked ultimately, is whether Anand can breach Topalov Bastille in the next two games?

The next two games will be played in classical time format whereas in the tie-break games each player has a total of 25 minutes to make his moves. Anand, who was crowned the champion in 2007 and defended his title successfully in 2008 against former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, will desperately want to retain his champion status.

Ardent Indians fans would be hoping so too.

Tie-break would be 3-way-chess between Anand, Topalov and Luck

Game 11 will be played on Sunday, 09.05.2010, 15.00 EEST (12.00 UTC). All chess fans will be rubbing their hands at the prospect of this Super Sunday Contest. The two players will unleash the most lethal of their weapons in these two games, as both will prefer to win in the default classic time round.