<table style="width: 162px; height: 42px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="162" align="right" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/oct/anand.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt">V Anand</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>World Champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Etienne Bacrot of France in the fourth round of the Pearl Spring Chess tournament here on Saturday.<br /><br />The Indian wizard was in for the biggest surprise of this season as Bacrot, once the youngest Grandmaster in the world, played energetically to catch the Indian ace off guard and score one of the biggest wins of his career. 

World Champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Etienne Bacrot of France in the fourth round of the Pearl Spring Chess tournament here on Saturday

Shock defeat for Anand

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