Top-Heavy

At the Corus super-tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Viswanathan Anand played his first competitive chess as world champion. The weight of the title is no doubt heavy and under its pressure he lost his very first game to Timur Radjabov. As the tournament drew to an end, it became clear that this loss had a decisive effect on the outcome. Anand and Radjabov tied for third and fourth place, a half-point behind the two winners, Levon Aronian and Magnus Carlsen. Radjabov’s victory over Anand was the best game he played in the event.