Anand in a tough field in Zurich Chess Challenge

Fresh from his remarkable come-from-behind victory at the Grenke Chess Classic tournament, World champion Viswanathan Anand will compete in a tougher field in the Zurich Chess Challenge here.
After trailing the leader Fabiano Caruana by a full point margin with just two rounds to come, many had given up hopes but Anand scored two excellent victories to pip the Italian to the post in Grenke Classic at Baden-Baden in Germany.
The expectation from the world champion are high in this tougher competition wherein Russian Vladimir Kramnik starts as the rating favourite. Anand will be the second seed ahead of Caruana and last world championship challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel.

The four-player tournament will be played on a double round-robin basis and there will be just six rounds in all.
The time control will be Classical with two hours for the first 40 moves, one for the next twenty and 15 minutes with an additional 30 seconds increment after every move till the end of the game.
For Vladimir Kramnik the tournament is a curtain raiser to his campaign for the next world championship. Boris Gelfand is in similar shoes as for him and Kramnik this is the last serious tournament before the candidates� tournament in March at London which will decide Anand�s challenger in the next world championship later this year.