World champion Viswanathan Anand on Tuesday retained his crown by winning the world chess championship title after wrapping up the final game against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria.
Anand achieved an improbable win playing with black in the final game to retain the world title by 6.5-5.5 margin after the end of the 12th and final game here.
Experts all over the world had predicted that Topalov, at his worst, will draw the last game under normal time control and then the match will head into the rapid tiebreaker.
However, it was not to be as Topalov, trying to look for complications, went haywire in a slightly difficult position and could not recover as Anand kept dealing one lethal blow after another to notch up his fourth world title in 11 years to remain the undisputed king of the game once again.
In 2008, Anand had won the world title in a match against Russian Vladimir Kramnik, in 2006 he had won the tournament ahead of almost all top players in the world, and in 2000 he had won the championship when it was held on a knockout basis.
