Gelfand lost to which player in a rapidplay tiebreak in 2012?
Magnus Carlsen
Garry Kasparov
Vladimir Kramnik
Viswanathan Anand
Answer
In 2012, Viswanathan Anand beat Boris Gelfand in a rapidplay tiebreak to win the World Chess Championship. Anand had won the first six games of the match, but Gelfand won the seventh and eighth games to force a tiebreak. The tiebreak consisted of four rapid games, with the winner being the first player to win two games.
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