World champion Viswanathan Anand leads the World Blitz Chess Championship at Moscow with 12 points after the first 14 rounds on Nov 16. There are still two days left and 28 rounds still to be played. It is a 22-player double all-play-all. This event is part of the Tal Memorial happening at Moscow.
In the opening three rounds, Anand drew Peter Leko (Hun) with black and beat Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr) with white and drew Vladimir Kramnik (Rus) with the black pieces. In the next four rounds he beat Vugar Gashimov (Az), world women's champion Alexandra Kosteniuk (Rus) and Evgeny Bareev (Rus) and then drew Alexander Morozevich (Rus).
Then he beat Peter Svidler (Rus) and drew Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr).
There followed a winning streak, he won the next five games against Alexander Grischuk (Rus), Shakriyar Mamedyarov (Az), Vladislav Tkachiev (Fra), Leinier Dominguez (Cub), Sergey Karjakin (Ukr) to lead the table with 12 points from 14 games.
Teenaged star Magnus Carlsen of Norway is in clear second position on ten points. Former world champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia is on nine points. Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Grischuk are on 8.5 points.
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