Anand wins record 5th Corus Chess title; passes 2800 FIDE

Viswanathan Anand, the world's second best chess player, won the Super Grandmaster tournament called Corus 2006 for the record 5th time by defeating GM Boris Gelfand in the 13th and final round to catch up to World Champion Veselin Topalov with 9 points out of a possible 13. On the tiebreak system Anand was awarded the title. Probably more important to the Indian chess hero is that his FIDE rating already at a stratospheric 2792 will rise 10 points to break the 2800 rating, only the fourth person in history to do so.(Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Topalov are the others to have reached the 2800 barrier. Regular grandmasters have ratings in the 2550-2700 range.)