An Indian man has retained his title as the world's best chess player.

Viswanathan Anand reclaimed the title after playing Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in Bonn.

Mr Anand said: "It is really nice to just have the title. Somehow, a half point after three games doesn't seem like such a big task, but your nerves come into play, and you know, Vladimir was really pushing me the last few games.

"And OK, the tenth game he had this big idea, he won, but today I thought, since I have white I was hoping that I would end up as world champion, but you can never be sure."

It is Mr Anand's third world championship crown, he also won in 2000 and 2007. He had only lost one match in the championships.

After 24 moves in just over three hours the 38-year-old was able to walk away with £1.2 million.

Mr Kramnik won £476,000.

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