World champion Viswanathan Anand continued his title defence, holding off world number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway to a draw in quick time in the second game of the World chess championship on Sunday.
Anand was playing with white pieces and said he was mildy surprised
at Carlsen's opening moves, in the press conference that followed the game.
The opening move of the second game today was a big success for Carlsen and it was a great pull back by the Norwegian after Anand had got an easy draw as black in the first game yesterday. "I will not talk too much about the opening move. I think the critical point was on move 18 when Vishy could have tried but black seemed to be doing fine," world number one Carlsen said.
Anand said things might have become risky for him after Carlsen's opening surprise coming in the form of a Caro Kann defense. "I had to decide whether to fly blind because it's clear that he would have been into more details. I decided to go for a slightly solid line, a slightly prudent decision today, essentially after the queen exchange there is nothing much happening," said the five-time champion Anand.
"It was a quick game, nothing to analyse much", said Anand. He also apologized for another draw and said he is expecting longer matches after this.
"Today it's my turn to tender a slight apology," said Anand. "The position we got after move 12 is a very sharp one. I have studied it in the past, it's very very complicated and I had not really expected it. That's clear," he added.
