The world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik effectively threw in the towel yesterday with a tame 13 move draw playing black against Alexander Grischuk in the eleventh round of the Fide World Chess Championship tournament at Mexico City. Vishy Anand continued his march to the world title with victory over Alexander Morozevich who defended with only the second Sicilian Defence of the chess event so far. Anand increased his lead over Boris Gelfand who remains in second place 1.5 points behind and only these two are on more than 50%. Just three games remain, so barring a complete collapse Anand will become the 15th undisputed world chess champion. Anand and Gelfand aside, the rest of the field are separated by ...

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