Dethroned world chess champion Viswanathan Anand last Sunday earned the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen for the world championship title by winning the rigorous Candidates chess tournament. Anand played unbeaten throughout, winning three games and drawing the rest in the 14 round tournament. In the vital 12th round game, when a victory would have sealed the fate of the leading contenders, Anand decided not to tempt fate, avoided a risky route to a possible victory and settled instead for a tame draw against Russia’s Dimitry Andreikin. In that action-filled game, over-burdened with tactical combinations, Anand felt that he had winning chances. The subsequent computer analysis demonstrated that he was right. Afterwards he explained
