India's five-time world champion Dortmund is looking to win the No Kesling World Masters chess title for the second year in a row in chess. In this format of chess, the special trick of securing the king is not allowed to do fortification. Anand had won the title for the first time last year by defeating former world champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in an individual series, while this time the competition is being played on a double round-robin basis between 4 players.

So far, Anand is leading the first three rounds with a draw with Germany's Dmitrij Kollars and England's Michael Adams, defeating Germany's Daniel Friedman on 2 points and now he is still left to play another match from all these players. Apart from Anand, Dmitrij and Adams are going to play with 1.5 points, while Daniels is going to play by scoring 1 point at the moment. Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik had to withdraw at the last minute due to health reasons.

A few days ago, there were reports that Boris Gelfand of Israel has become the winner by defeating India's five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand in the final of the 35th Lyon Chess Festival Rapid Tournament. There has been a lot of struggle between the two in the rapid matches and in the 4 matches played, Anand and Gelfand were tied by winning 2-2 matches, but after which Boris Gelfand has become the winner by winning both the matches in the blitz tiebreak. Anand became the World Champion for the 5th time by defeating Gelfand in the rapid tiebreak in 2012 and just after 10 years of that, Boris won the Lyon Masters title by defeating Anand in the tiebreak!

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