Swati Ghate helped the Indian eves salvage a draw against third seed Georgia at the Women's chess Olympiad
The Indian Grandmaster beat Akrdij Naditischin of Germany in the under-20 Chess 960 to claim the crown.
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand shrugged off his first round draw to score a resounding victory over Matthias Bach of Germany in the second round of the Masters section of Tradewise Gibraltar Chess festival, in Gibraltar, on Thursday.
Grandmaster GN Gopal's defeat against Ni Hua cost India dearly as it lost the fourth round match to higher rated China in the men's chess team event to slip to the second position in the Asian Games in Guangzhou on Sunday.
The victory helped the national champion join overnight leaders Deepan and Pavel.
The national champion registered a second straight victory over United States champion Hikaru Nakamura to advance at the World Chess Cup.
World's second youngest ever Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi was shocked by Maxim Rodshtein of Israel in the first round of the Young Grandmasters tournament, a part of the 43rd Biel Chess Festival.
Woman Grandmaster Bhakti Kulkarni and Grandmaster S P Sethuraman made history, winning the gold medal in the Asian Continental Women's and Open chess championship that concluded in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Friday.
The Indian ace regained joint lead in the combined standings after beating Peter Leko of Hungary
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
World No. 14 Harikrishna was determined to make something out of this contest as the tournament entered its final stages. But Giri was equally resolute and held Harikrishna at bay to make it one of the longest games of the day.
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi ended his disappointing campaign with a draw against Maxime Vachier-Lagarave of France in the ninth and final round of the Young Grandmasters tournament, a part of the 43rd edition of the Biel chess Festival.
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi continued to disappoint at the Young Grandmasters Tournament of the 43rd Biel Chess Festival here as the Indian drew his seventh round game against Dmitry Andrikin of Russia to lie at the bottom of the points table.
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi will hope to recover lost ground when he takes on Russian Dmitry Andreikin in the seventh round of the Young Grandmasters tournament, a part of 43rd Biel Chess Festival in Biel, Switzerland.
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi played out his third draw on the trot, signing peace with Anish Giri of Holland in the sixth round of the Young Grandmasters tournament, a part of the 43rd Biel Chess Festival in Biel, Switzerland.
World's second youngest Grandmaster ever Parimarjan Negi played out a draw with Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son of Vietnam in the fifth round of the Young Grandmasters tournament, apart of the 43rd Biel chess festival in Biel.
Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Kaido Kulaots of Estonia and went out of contention for a podium finish after seventh round of the 31st Cappelle La Grande international chess tournament in Cappelle La Grande, France.
World's second youngest Grandmaster ever Parimarjan Negi succumbed to his third straight loss, going down to Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the third round of the Young Grandmasters tournament of the 43rd Biel Chess Festival in Biel.
Parimarjan Negi slipped to the bottom of the points table after going down to second seed Evgeny Tomashevsky in a hard-fought second-round contest of the Young Grandmasters tournament in the 43rd Biel Chess Festival in Biel, Switzerland.
Former under-10 World champion Sahaj Grover became India's youngest International Master after winning the final round game against the higher-rated Nicolas Clery to finish fifth in the International Open Chess tournament in Le Touquet, France.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand's bad form continued as he finished 22nd in the World Blitz Chess championship, which concluded in Berlin on Thursday.
The Serb set up the breakaway PTPA on the eve of the US Open in September and resigned as head of the player council but last month he confirmed that he had been nominated by his fellow professionals for the current elections which he accepted.
Five-time champion and World No 3 Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand will spearhead a five-man strong Indian challenge at the prestigious Corus Chess Tournament starting in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands, on Monday.
The world junior champion beat GM Zhang Zhong of China for his fourth straight victory in the Sanjin Hotel Cup Grandmasters' tournament.
Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand gave a fine endgame lesson to young Alireza Firouzja, jumping to joint sixth position at the end of 11th round of Tata Steel Masters, in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands, on Saturday. With his second victory, Anand clawed his way back to a fifty percent score and will now hope to end the tournament on a high. At just 16 years, Firouzja is less than one third of Anand's age, and the Indian ace showed that the Iranian still has a lot to learn.
Alexander Goloshchapov, Ashot Anastasian and Aleksej Aleksandrov share the lead in the Masters' section at the Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival.
Indian challenge in the World Chess Cup ended abruptly after three of their Grandmasters wilted under pressure and lost their must-win games in Khanty Mansiysk (Russia).
The Indian GM's flag fell in a rook versus Bishop endgame after 100 moves against top seed Emil Sutovsky
In the women section being held alongside, Indian women played out a hard-fought draw against experienced Georgia 1 team. All the games were drawn.
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
He beat Zoltan Almasi of Hungary in the eighth round of the third Marx Gyorgy memorial Grandmasters chess tournament.
The 74-year-old chess legend proved too good for former world junior champion Peter Acs of Hungary in the Marx Gyorgy Memorial Grandmasters' tournament.
World junior chess champion GM Shakhriyaz Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan clinched the Dubai Cup.
Indian Grandmaster Harika Dronavalli had to settle for the bronze medal after a heartbreaking defeat against Tan Zhongyi of China via the tie-breaker in the semi-finals of the FIDE World Women's Chess Championship in Tehran.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
The Indian Grandmaster drew with third seed Evgeny Alekseev of Russia in the sixth round in the World Junior chess championship.
With his third victory in the event, Anand came back within striking distance of the leaders. His tally of six points out of ten is only one point less than Holland's Anish Giri, Norway's Magnus Carlsen and Azerbaijan's Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, all who have seven points apiece.
The Indian Grandmaster now trails the defending champion by a full point after the eighth round at the Biel chess festival.
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