Tie-break to end chess challenge

Lausanne - Russian world chess champion Anatoly Karpov and his Indian challenger Viswanathan Anand will today play a tie-breaker…

Lausanne - Russian world chess champion Anatoly Karpov and his Indian challenger Viswanathan Anand will today play a tie-breaker after drawing the first six games of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) championship, officials said. Viswanathan, considered a specialist at the series of high-speed games required in the tie-breaker, earned the tiebreak by winning the sixth game yesterday to level the match at three all.

Details of yesterday's match play are available on FIDE's Internet site at http://www.chessweb.com

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