Game 9: After five hours a hard fight ended draw  

Game 9 of the World Chess Championship 2008 today was a very hard fight.  With the black pieces Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) put pressure on Viswanathan Anand (India). Finally the World Champion Anand could hold his defence, and the exciting game ended draw after five hours and 45 moves. Anand needs now one half point to win the World Championship, Kramnik has to win the remaining three games to achieve the tie-break. The Championship is decided in that moment one player has achieved 6,5 points (further games will then not be played). Game 10 starts tomorrow at 3 p.m.

Read here later the annotations of game 9 by Grandmaster and official commentator Amador Rodriguez.  

Pictures of the day
All photos by: Torsten Behl

Before the game. 

Draw after a hard and exciting fight.