The World Championship is tied 2-2 heading into the second rest day after champion Viswanathan Anand again used the Chebanenko Slav to achieve a fairly comfortable draw with the black pieces. Boris Gelfand varied from game 2 when he chose 10.Qc2 rather than 10.Rc1, but it was Anand who played the first novelty with 16...Re8. Gelfand used plenty of time the rest of the way, trying to eke out a slight advantage, but Anand's accurate 23...Bc5 and 24...Bd4 kept him safe. Black continued to defend well, and with no targets for White in the rook and bishop vs. rook and knight ending the players called it a day.
Game 5 will be Thursday; meanwhile, subscribers will receive my analysis and video summary later today.