Its an excellent day for Indian Chess where Vishwanathan Anand has retained his world championship by drawing his 11′th game against Kramnik.

After the loss in 10′th [...]]]> Its decided and written on stone wall that Vishwanathan Anand is the first world champion in all 3 formats of chess

1. Classical chess
2. Tournament chess
3. Rapid Chess

Its an excellent day for Indian Chess where Vishwanathan Anand has retained his world championship by drawing his 11′th game against Kramnik.

After the loss in 10′th game it was evident that kramnik will go out in 11′th and 12′th game where anand just needed 1/2 point for winning the match.

Anand sprung a surprise of 1. e4 (he was deploying d4 with white in every game in this match), which was answered well by kramnik by throwing back surprise of super sharp Sicilion-Najdorf variation.

The 11′th game was played beautifully by these two players where the position was unclear till the exchange of queen happened.
Anand forced exchange of queens by posing a mate threat on last row. After this game was not at all bad for white; in fact white had little bit of advantage in this game.

Anand has silenced his critics who were doubting his ability in classic chess match format by comprehencively beating kramnik by a margin of 2 points with one game still remaining.

Vishy has given an awesome Diwali gift to entire Indian Chess world and he will scale to great heights after this.

I would dare to make a statement he could have also beaten Big K (Kasparov) in this match looking at his current form.

Bring on Topalov next year .. and we will see another great win by Vishy.

The game was covered with commentary by GM Susan Polgar here

Chessdom has covered the complete game 11 with GM Dimitrov here