Former World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a second straight draw by holding Fabiano Caruana of the United States easily in the fourth round of the Sinquefield Cup, which is part of the Grand Chess tour.
With his seventh win in nine games, Harikrishna retained his slender half a point lead over Alexander Motylev of Russia
After drawing with Wang Yue of China, India's world junior champ beat Tigran Petrosian of Armenia to keep the lead in the Sanjin Hotel Cup Grandmasters tournament.
The World junior champion beat GM Wang Hao to stretch his lead by 1.5 points at the end of the 5th round in the Sanjin Hotel Cup Grandmasters tournament.
The world junior champion beat Grandmaster Luke McShane of England for his third straight win in the Sanjin Hotel Cup Grandmasters tournament.
P Harikrishna outplayed Woman Grandmaster Zhao Xue of China in the second round
P Harikrishna started off with a facile victory over Grandmaster Zhang Pengxiang of China in the first round
Viswanathan Anand proved his true mettle yet again as he outclassed Levon Aronian of Armenia in a long-drawn game in the ninth round of the Candidates Chess tournament in Moscow.
Draws ruled the roost in the 8th round as players were only willing to consolidate their position in the Dubai International Chess Championship.
Indian GM Krishnan Sasikiran slipped to joint second after drawing with GM Artashes Minasian of Armenia in the seventh round of the Dubai International Chess Championship.
The Indian Grandmaster is half a point ahead of second-placed Zhao Jun of China after nine round in the World Junior Chess Championship.
The Indian Grandmaster drew with third seed Evgeny Alekseev of Russia in the sixth round in the World Junior chess championship.
The second mini-match game between Ponomariov and Aronian was drawn on Friday.
The former World champion was playing his first game of the finals against Levon Aronian at the World Chess Cup.
GM Krishnan Sasikiran finished joint fourth in the Aeroflot International Open Chess tournament.
Having won two games in a row with white pieces earlier in the tournament, Carlsen could do little against Anand this time and the Norwegian was not quite happy with his play.
The Indian Grandmaster beat GM Safin Shukhrat of Uzbekistan in the third round of the Masters' section in the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival.
The third seeds thrashed Croatian pair of Mario Ancic and Ivan Ljubicic 6-2, 6-2 in the French Open doubles event.
Harikrishna, Tigran Petrosian and Zhao Jun jointly lead the table with six points each after the seventh round in the World Junior Chess Championship.
India had a disappointing finish at the 37th Chess Olympiad in Italy.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand had another disappointing final day as the Indian finished on ninth spot in the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz Chess tournament, a part of the Grand Chess tour.
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand had another bad outing, drawing seven and losing two games, to remain on joint eighth place after the end of nine rounds of blitz in the St. Louis Rapid and blitz chess tournament in St. Louis, United States.
The Indian eves survived some anxious moments before salvaging draws in all the three games against Poland in the fifth round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand got off to a good start with an easy draw against World No.2 United States' Fabiano Caruana in the first round of the London Chess Classic, the final leg of the Grand Chess tour.
The Indian wrestler beat Zhirayr Hovehannisyan of Armenia 3-1 in the 66kg elimination round but his opening bout loss proved costly.
Spain's Alvaro Morata scored a goal in each half as they beat a highly defensive Malta side 2-0 away on Tuesday to move top of their Euro 2020 qualifying group with two wins out of two games.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
FIFA World Cup set pulses racing and ended with a young, exciting France team clinching the title.
Joining the Bulgarian in the semi-finals of the World Chess Championship are England's Michael Adams, Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan and Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan.
The Rest of the World team will play Armenia in a chess match to commemorate the 75th birth anniversary of late Armenian world champion Tigran Petrosian.
Viswanathan Anand continued his roller-coaster ride in the London Chess Classic as he went down to Russian Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk in the sixth round.
The third seeded pair registered a comfortable 6-3, 6-4 win against Karsten Braasch of Germany and Sargis Sargsian of Armenia.
P Harikrishna leads by seven points after completion of eight rounds in the World Junior Chess championship.
The Romanian striker joined up with the squad as they left for Yerevan to face Armenia in a World Cup qualifier next week.
The world number two will not be fielded in India's first round match against unfancied Uruguay in the Chess Olympiad.
With five players tied at the top after five rounds, Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand face a tough challenge to annex the Corus chess title.
The Indian ace played dangerously attacking chess to beat the Armenian in the second round of the Corus tournament.
The defending champion played out a 23-move draw with GM Peter Leko of Hungary in the Corus Grandmasters Chess Tournament.
Both men were the dominant sprinters of their time, although their paths diverged sharply after their respective triumphs.
Viswanathan Anand drew with tournament leader Levon Aronian of Armenia in the eighth and penultimate round to stay in sixth position at the Altibox Norway chess tournament in Stavanger, Norway.
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