This is game 4 from the 2014 World Chess Championship match between defending champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway, and challenger Viswanathan Anand of India. This world chess championship match (rematch), held in Sochi, Russia, is historic. It’s the first time that the same two opponents have met in consecutive World Chess Championship matches since Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov from the 1980’s. The World Chess Championship 2014 between Carlsen and Anand is a best of 12-game match; the first player to earn 6.5 points will become the World Chess Champion. Magnus Carlsen has 1.5 points and Viswanathan Anand has 1.5 points going into game 4.

In the fourth game of the World Chess Championship, a confident Viswanathan Anand – playing black in a Sicilian Defence – stretched Carlsen for more than four hours before agreeing to a draw.

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The only problem that Vishy had at this point was that his pawn structure was a little worrying. His pawns were not connected on the queen side and isolated pawns always become a major headache at the business end of the game. The game gained a lot of intensity after move 21. Both players started exchanging pieces and entered active game play. But after exchanging one rook and two bishops, it went back to a dry position again. It went on like this for more than four hours with neither of the players making inroads. This was followed by more pieces getting exchanged in a boring monotonous game play which continued even beyond the first time control.

Indian Grandmaster Anand, who had beaten Carlsen for the first time in 13 attempts in game three, started well, but the advantage gradually swung back to 23-year-old Carlsen, who is 21 years younger than his opponent. With a rest-day scheduled for Thursday, both players knuckled down in search of a decisive result before the match was halved after 47 moves. The World Chess Championship consists of 12 games with a standard time control of two hours for the first 40 moves and then one hour for the next 20 moves. There is then a final 15 minute period put on the clock, which goes up by 30 seconds every time a player makes a move.

The 2014 World Chess Championship in Sochi is finely balanced after the fourth match between defending champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Viswanathan Anand ended in a draw.