Viswanathan Anand drew with Vassily Ivanchuk to maintain sole lead after the end of the Morelia stint of the Morelia-Linares chess.
Cristiano Ronaldo saved Portugal from an embarrassing defeat in Armenia on Wednesday while Belgium dented Serbia's hopes of reaching Euro 2008 with a 3-2 qualifying win.
Levon Aronian beat Indian GM Vishwanathan Anand to retain the Chess 960 World Championship in Mainz.
Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Vladislav Artemiev of Russia in the eighth and penultimate round, ending the Indian challenge in the Isle of Man International Chess tournament on Sunday.
Taking his tally up to two points out of a possible four, Anand now has his task cut out for the remaining five games in this strongest tournament of the year. The world rapid champion needs a couple of victories to stake a claim in the tournament.
High-flying with his superman-cap, overnight joint leader Grandmaster Gupta ran out of steam and surrendered to Nakamura on a day when B Adhiban also did well to hold Levon Aronian of Armenia to a creditable draw.
Ian Nepomniachtchi was declared winner of the World Youth Star chess tournament after finishing joint-first with Negi, Rauf Mamedov and Zaven Andriasian.
The Indian ace beat International Master Falco Bindrich to forge ahead after the third round in the World Youth star chess tournament.
The top seeded Indian was beaten by Jolanta Zawadzka of Poland in the 11th round of the World Junior girls' chess championship.
Top seed D Harika scored a thumping victory over Sabrina Vega Gutierrez of Spain to reclaim sole second spot after the end of the eighth round in the World Junior Girls' chess championship in Yerevan, Armenia, on Friday.
Grandmaster Tania Sachdev beat Bianca Muhren of Holland to jump into the joint lead at the World Junior Girls chess championship.
The Indian ace beat Armenia's Levon Aronian in the final.
The India ace scored win and two draws on the second day at the Chess 960 World Championship in Mainz.
Levon Aronian, Veselin Topalov and Teimour Radjabov jointly won the Category-19 Corus Chess tournament.
The Indian men and women's teams made winning starts to their campaign in the 43rd Chess Olympiad, in Batumi, Georgia, on Tuesday.
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The draw took Anand to two points out of a possible three in the Corus Grandmasters 'A' chess tournament.
The Vedanta group, the eighth largest mining and metal company in the world, is all set for a gold rush in India.
Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand suffered his second defeat in the Altibox Norway chess tournament after losing to Anish Giri of Holland in the fourth round, in Stavanger.
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 ace retains a half point lead after the 12th round in the Morelia-Linares Chess tournament.
Dronavalli Harika and Koneru Humpy came up with fine individual performances to win a silver and a bronze, respectively.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran beat GM Konstantin Landa in the fifth round and moved to second place in the Aeroflot Open.
The world junior champion beat GM Zhang Zhong of China for his fourth straight victory in the Sanjin Hotel Cup Grandmasters' tournament.
The former World junior champion defeated former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine 2-0 in the tie-break games of the final.
Viswanathan Anand's hunt for an elusive win continued as he was held to yet another draw by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan in the sixth round of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament, Stavanger, Norway.
Indian men scored a 2.5-1.5 victory over Bulgaria but the women suffered defeat at the hands of Armenia at the Chess Olympiad
The Indian Grandmaster won the 18-player tournament by a two-point margin over nearest rival Levon Aronian of Armenia.
World rapid champion Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by rising Chinese star Ding Liren in the third round of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
The Vice President will be addressing the national assembly of Armenia.
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Sergey Karjakin of Russia to remain in joint second spot in the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament, in St Louis, United States.
The Indian ace settled for a quick draw with Grandmaster Gabrielo Sargissian in the ninth and final round of the Reykjavik International chess tournament.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly failed to finish among the prizes by a whisker, going down to Vladimir Akopian in the final round of Gibtele.com Masters chess tournament.
Grandmaster Gabriel Sargissian of Armenia won the Abu Dhabi Chess festival, finishing half a point ahead of four rivals.\n
However, the women's team stayed in contention after a 2-1 victory over Romania at the Chess Olympiad.
World No 3 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan, current World Cup winner Levon Aronian and India number two Harikrishna shared the lead with two points apiece.
The Indian GM beat Francisco Vallejo Pons to keep joint lead in rapid chess event of the Amber tournament
The victory improved the Indian's chances of a decent finish in the Aeroflot International Open chess tournament.
The Indian Grandmaster beat veteran GM Pia Cramling of Sweden in the seventh round of the master's section of Gibtele.com chess festival in Gibraltar.
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