If the spectators were expecting some desperate fireworks from world champion Viswanathan Anand, they were in for a cold shower yesterday. “Wake me up if somebody blunders his Queen,” was GM Varuzhan Akobian’s apt comment. The game was so boring that all the masters and amateurs started talking about the weather and the dinner menu.

Magnus Carlsen (right) has a healthy two-point lead over defending champion Viswanathan Anand with four games to go. Pic/AFP