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At Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2011, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands

Group A - Round 1

Ruslan Ponomariov - Viswanathan Anand 0-1
Erwin l'Ami - Anish Giri ½-½
Jan Smeets - Alexei Shirov 1-0
Magnus Carlsen - Levon Aronian ½-½
Hikaru Nakamura - Alexander Grischuk 1-0
Max. Vachier-Lagrave - Wang Hao ½-½
Ian Nepomniachtchi - Vladimir Kramnik ½-½

Group B - Round 1
Gabriel Sargissian - Surya Ganguly 1-0

Group c - Round 1
Ivan Ivanisevic - Tania Sachdev 0-1

This year tata steel is sponsoring Wijk aan Zee tournament ... Anand startd with win over Ruslan Ponomariov in 52 moves playing with Black ... He is currently joint leader with Hikaru Nakamura and Jan Smeets.

In second round Anand is facing Vladimir Kramnik.

In Group B match, Suryashekhar Ganguly lost his first round game playing with Black against Gabriel Sargissian ... In Group C match, Tania Sachdev scored win with Black over Ivan Ivanisevic to be joint leader.