The Indian ace had a disappointing start at Amber chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand rallied to beat Russian Alexander Morozevich in the rapid game of the fifth round to leap to joint second spot.
The Indian Grandmaster now trails the defending champion by a full point after the eighth round at the Biel chess festival.
Indian GM Sasikiran beat Yannick Pelletier to go to the top after the sixth round in the Biel International chess festival.
A rare queen blunder against Russian Alexander Morozevich cost World champion Viswanathan Anand dearly as he went down in the blindfold game and lost the lead in the 10th and penultimate round of Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament in Nice. The Indian ace drew the return rapid game and remained in contention for top honours even as Levon Aronian of Armenia jumped in to sole lead at the expense of Chinese Wang Yue by a 1.5-0.5 margin.
World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered defeat at the hands of Alexander Morozevich of Russia in the blindfold game of the fifth round in Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Nice (France).
The Indian Grandmaster posed a serious threat but the top seed held on for a draw and maintained his slender half point lead.
World champion Viswanathan Anand bounced back from the disappointing results of the past two rounds to defeat Russian Alexander Morozevich in a positional skirmish in the third round of the Tal Memorial chess tournament now in progress in Moscow.
Topalov, with his unsurpassable score of 9.5 points from 13 games has emerged the New World Chess Champion, 2005.
The defeat saw the Indian ace surrender the joint lead in the Amber Chess tournament.
The Russian held the Indian ace in both blindfold and rapid games in the sixth round of the Amber chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand could not breach Alexander Morozevich's iron defence and settled for a draw to remain joint second after seven rounds in the ongoing Tal Memorial chess tournament in Moscow on Friday.
The victory put the Indian in sole lead at the end of the fourth round in the Morelia-Linares chess tournament.
Anand, with a draw in 57 moves stays in shared lead with Vladimir Kramnik, both having 2.5 points from four games.
The Indian ace claimed the rapid chess title to complete his fifth victory at the Amber Chess tournament
Viswanathan Anand defeated Russian Alexander Morozevich to emerge as the joint leader in the Grenkeleasing rapid world championship in Mainz, Germany.
The victory enabled the Indian ace stay in joint lead after the blindfold game in the 10th and penultimate round of Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament.
The Indian GM is now only 0.5 points behind the combined leader Alexander Morozevich at Amber chess
The Indian Grandmaster was beaten by World champion Ruslan Ponomariov at the Biel chess festival.
Top seed Alexander Morozevich of Russia made sure of retaining the title with a round to spare in the Biel chess festival.
The Indian ace outplayed Alexander Morozevich in the fifth round of the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament
World champion Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Boris Gelfand of Israel in the fourth round of Tal Memorial chess tournament in Moscow.
World champion Viswanthan Anand's poor run continued as he suffered his second straight loss, succumbing to American Hikaru Nakamura in the sixth round of the Tal memorial Chess Tournament in Moscow.
Indian chess star Viswanathan Anand suffered a shock loss to next World Championship challenger Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the fifth round and slipped to the joint seventh spot in the Tal Memorial Tournament in Moscow.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out two draws with Bulgarian world number one Veselin Topalov in the ninth round to surrender his sole lead in the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Nice on Wednesday. Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Levon Aronian of Armenia caught the Indian in lead with an identical 1.5-0.5 victories over Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine and Alexander Morozevich of Russia respectively.
World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Norwegian prodigy Magnus Carlsen and went down 0.5-1.5 in the third round of Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Nice. Anand lost the blindfold game with white pieces and did not get a chance to recover in the rapid. With this defeat, the Indian slipped in the standings and stands joint sixth in combined, joint fifth in rapid and joint sixth in blindfold.
Viswanathan Anand split points with the Hungarian to remain in lead after the sixth round of the World Chess Championship.
Top seeded Anand survived a few anxious moments before settling for a draw in the third round of the World Chess championship.
A world title in the current format is something that will add to the glittering cupboard of the world number one.
Viswanathan Anand scored a stunning win over Lev Aronian in the second round of the World Chess Championships.
Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Alexander Morozevich in the 11th round of Morelia-Linares chess.
He played out a fighting draw with Peter Svidler to remain in joint lead along with Magnus Carlsen.
Viswanathan Anand beat Alexander Morozevich in the 11th round of the World Chess Championship to swell his score to 7.5 points, 1.5 clear of the field.
The Indian ace was stunned by Russian Grandmaster Alexander Morozevich in the seventh round of the World Chess Championships.
The Indian GM was beaten by Grandmaster Alexander Morozevich on time in the World Rapid Cup chess tournament.
The Indian ace regained joint lead in the combined standings after beating Peter Leko of Hungary
World champion Viswanathan Anand got off to a disappointing start, suffering a rare defeat against Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the first round of the Tal Memorial Chess Tournament in Moscow.
Viswanathan Anand crushed Judit Polgar in the opening round of the World Chess Championships
Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by GM Peter Heine Nielsen in the blindfold game of the 9th round at Amber
The Indian ace shares the lead with Alexander Morozevich after four rounds in the Amber chess tournament.
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