Viswanathan Anand defeated Vladimir Kramnik at his own game at Dortmund on Wednesday. In the No-Castling Chess contest, designed by the Russian, Anand won convincingly to take a 1-0 lead in the four-game match for the Sparkassen Trophy.
In this variant of chess, the players are not allowed to castle. The idea is to make the game less theoretical and more dynamic.
The first game didn't disappoint the curious chess fans, as the two battled it out for 66 moves. Anand, with white, was a piece up and in a winning position, but Kramnik tried his best to delay the inevitable.