Rapid loss for Anand

Viswanathan Anand suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Peter Leko of Hungary in the rapid game of the fourth round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament here.

The loss proved quite costly for Anand as he lost his lead in both rapid section and combined standings. Levon Aronian of Armenia, Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine and Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria share the lead with five points each in the combined standings and Anand is fourth on four points.

In the rapid section, Aronian overtook Anand after beating Magnus Carlsen and leads with three points. Anand shares joint second in this section on 2.5 points along with Topalov, Leko, and Ivanchuk.