Anand draws with Aronian

• India's Viswanathan Anand drew with Levon Aronian in the fourth round of Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess tournament.
• Anand could not do much against solid play by Aronian in both blindfold and rapid games and even though the games were fought hard, the Indian ace never got any real chances to look for victory.
• The Indian stands joint seventh in blindfold and joint fifth in rapid.
• Vladimir Kramnik of Russian dealt a double blow to the aspirations of debutant Wang Yue of China winning both the games with consummate ease.
• The Russian emerged as the sole leader in the combined standings on 5.5 points out of a possible eight and is now a half point clear of Aronian and Alexander Morozevich of Russia who played out a 1-1 draw with Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria.
• With seven rounds or 14 games still remaining in the unique event that features one blindfold and one rapid game in each round, Teimour Radjabov jumped to joint fourth spot along with Topalov and Magnus Carlsen of Norway after a 2-0 triumph over Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine.
• Kramnik was devastating on Wang Yue in both versions of the game. In the first blindfold game the Chinese was struggling when he blundered while in the second he mixed up moves, lost a pawn and never recovered.