Surprisingly, today's draw came against Ivan Sokolov after 31 moves. Anand seemed to have some advantage but as soon Sokolov captured Anand's queen, the players agreed to a draw. Sokolov would have gone on to lose his queen too.

All the other clashes in the other three boards were still in progress. Leader Peter Leko was playing Anatoly Karpov, Jan Timman battling Vaselin Topalov while Michael Adams was taking on Vladimir Kramnik.

The important match was on the fourth board between Leko, the current leader with four points, and Kramnik.

Results (Round 6): J Timman (0.5) vs V Topalov (2) M Adams (3) vs V Kramnik (3.5); Anand (3.5) drew with I Sokolov (2); P Leko (4) vs V Kramnik (3.5).

Anand vs Shokolov

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nfxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. 0-0 Be7 8. c4 Nb4 9. cxd5 Nxd3 10. Qxd3 Qxd5 11.Re1 Bf5 12. g4 Bg6 13. Nc3 Nxc3 14. Qxc3 f6 15. Qxc7 0-0 16. Rxe7 Qxf3 17. Rxg7+ Kh8 18. Bh6 Qxg4+ 19. Qg3 Qxd4 20. Rxg6 hxg6 21. Qh3 Kg8 22. Bxf8 Rxf8 23. Qb3+ Rf7 24. Rd1 Qg4+ 25. Kf1 Kg7 26. h3 Qe4 27. Qd5 Qc2 28. Rd2 Qc1+ 29. Kg2 Re7 30. Qd8 Qc6+ 31. Qd5 Qxd5+ 0.5-0.5