Israeli grandmaster Boris Gelfand and reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand of India played to a draw on Thursday in their tenth match in the World Chess Championship. The two are now even at five points each.
The World Chess Championships, a three-week event, opened in Moscow on Friday, May 11. The title will be decided over 12 matches, and the winner will take home $1.53 million while second place will win $1.02 million.
This is the fifth time Anand is defending his World Champion title, though he no longer holds the top world ranking, falling to No. 4 recently.
Gelfand, ranked 22, was born in Minsk and immigrated to Israel in 1998, quickly dominating the local chess scene and capturing a number of world chess tournaments, including the Chess World Cup in 2009.
He is regarded as a classical player who often has tricks up his sleeve. He defeated the world’s top players in the 2011 Candidates Cup round, which earned him a spot at the board opposite Anand.
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