Anand achieved the first decisive result in games between the two great rivals (normal games). It was a long Sicilian Maroczy Bind game that lasted for 108 moves before Anand prevailed.
The most interesting aspect of this game was that Anand played like Kramnik ! Yes, he ground Kramnik out by gaining advantage bit by bit around the middle game stage.
Anand first erred with 19 ... h5 (Ra3 or h6 was required.) The next mistake came at move 26 where Anand played 26 ... Rxc5 (again Ra3 was definitely the best)
Anand escaped a bad position and moved to a slight plus soon enough.
Kramnik found the going tough even as both players played a technically accurate game until move 70-73 when the tired Kramnik made small errors to make the win possible for Anand. After that, it was Anand all the way as he nursed the two extra pawns in a won end game. Kramnik gave up when Anand threatened to Queen his advanced e pawn.
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