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Chennai hosts the Anand-Carlsen World Chess Championship

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Chennai hosts the Anand-Carlsen World Chess Championship
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Playing in his home city, Viswanathan Anand put his world title on the line against Magnus Carlsen and lost it to the Norwegian.

FIDE staged the World Chess Championship 2013 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Chennai between 7 and 25 November 2013, pitting titleholder Viswanathan Anand against Norway's Magnus Carlsen. Only ten of the twelve planned games were needed, as Carlsen took the match 6.5 to 3.5 and with it the world crown. The contest brought chess a great deal of public attention in Tamil Nadu.

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