Boris Gelfand might have suffered a defeat at the hands of defending champion Viswanathan Anand in the eighth round of the ongoing World Chess Championship in Moscow, but the Israeli Grandmaster's wife, Maya is confident about her husband's triumph against his Indian opponent.
Defending champion and Grandmaster R Vaishali jumped into sole lead in the women's section
The Indian ace played his third successive draw to be tied third after the third round of the Sparkassen Super Grandmasters chess.
As Indian ace Viswanathan Anand gears to defend his World Chess Championship title against Boris Gelfand later this month, GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly feels it will be 'foolish to underestimate the Israeli'.
The defeat saw the Indian slip to joint-third in the Bermuda Invitational chess tournament.
The victory kept the Indian ace in the hunt for the overall title in the Amber chess tournament.\n\n
Justifying his top billing Grandmaster Boris Gelfand of Israel won the Chess World Cup, defeating former world champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in the tie-breaker of the final in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia.
The world number one will start with white pieces against Boris Gelfand of Israel in the opener of the World Chess Championship.
Victory continues to elude defending champion Viswanathan Anand. The Indian Grandmaster failed to break the deadlock yet again and had to settle for a draw against challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel in the sixth game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow.
Victory continues to elude defending champion Viswanathan Anand. The Indian Grandmaster failed to break the deadlock yet again and had to settle for a draw against challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel in the fifth game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow. This is the fifth successive draw in as many games and leaves the score tied at 2.5-2.5.
World champion Viswanathan Anand ended his campaign with an easy draw against Sergey Karjaikin of Russia in the ninth and final round of Tal Memorial Chess tournament that concluded in Moscow.
The Israeli GM drew first blood in the fight for 5-8 places, beating the Belgian GM in the first game of the two-game mini-match in the World Chess Cup.
Viswanathan Anand remains favourite for the title in the World Chess Championship, but the 11th game will be crucial when the Indian plays his last black.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with Boris Gelfand of Israel in the ninth and final round to finish third in the Alekhine memorial chess tournament in St Petersburg, Russia.
Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand suffered a jolt in his title defence as he lost to his Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand in the seventh game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow.
Vishwanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand drew the first game of their 12-game world chess championship match played at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
The first day at the World Championships witnessed drawn games. All the eight players in the double round-robin event are tied on a half point each.
Former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine overcame a point's deficit to put it across Russian Vladimir Malakhov in the rapid tie-break games and enter the World Chess Cup final, in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. He will take on top seed Boris Gelfand of Israel in the title round.
The Indian ace was involved in a 20-move draw with the Israeli Grandmaster, which kept his half point lead intact at the World Chess Championship.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Boris Gelfand of Israel in the third round of Zurich Chess Challenge on Tuesday.
Former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine played out a draw with top seed Israeli Boris Gelfand in the first game of the four-game final in the World Chess Cup, now drawing to a close in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia.
The draw against the Israeli Grandmaster took the Indian men's team's tally to 28 points at the Chess Olympiad.
The Rest of the World maintained a four-point lead over the Armenians with a 3-3 draw in the fourth match of the Tigran Petrosian event.
Defending champion Viswanathan Anand struck back with vengeance and scored the much-needed equaliser against Boris Gelfand in the eighth game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow on Monday.
The Indian world junior champion emerged joint-winner in the International invitational tournament in Bermuda.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand of India defeated former world championship challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel in the fifth round to make a strong comeback in the 10th Tal Memorial chess championship, in Moscow on Sunday.
In a rare display of annoyance, World chess champion Viswanathan Anand hit out at chess great Gary Kasparov and other critics for suggesting that he lacked motivation.
Victory eluded world champion Viswanathan Anand yet again as he played out a fourth draw in five games, against Boris Gelfand of Israel, and remained at the bottom after the fifth and penultimate round of the Zurich Chess Challenge.
Israeli Grandmaster Boris Gelfand beat Russian Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk in the first game of the quarter-finals in the World Chess Cup.
Israel's ace Grandmaster Boris Gelfand made it to the final of the Chess World Cup following victory over Ukraine's Sergey Karjakin in the second game of the semi-finals, in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. In the other semi-final, Vladimir Malakhov of Russia failed to break the ice against Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine despite getting a complicated position and another drawn result means that the stalwarts will have to tackle it out in the tie-break games.
Neither current World Champion D Gukesh nor former world champion Vishy Anand are the top rated Indian chess player.
Defending champion Viswanathan Anand could not break the ice and settled for an easy draw as white against challenger Boris Gelfand in the tenth game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow on Thursday.
Defending champion Viswanathan Anand is set to fight it out in a Rapid chess tie-breaker against challenger Boris Gelfand after a tied 6-6 result in the World Chess Championship match in Moscow on Wednesday.
Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, on Saturday, drew the 11th game against challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel as the World Chess Championship heads into a dramatic finish in Moscow on Saturday.
World champion Viswanathan Anand settled for a draw against Boris Gelfand of Israel at the eighth and penultimate round to remain at joint second in the Tal Memorial chess tournament in Moscow.
Former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine held top seed Boris Gelfand to yet another draw in the second game of the final of the World Chess Cup now underway in Khanty Mansisysk, Moscow. After a draw in the first game as well, the score in the four-games final is 1-1.
Defending champion Viswanathan Anand was stretched to the tie-breaker of the World Chess Championship by Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand following a draw in the 12th and final game, in Moscow, on Monday.
Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand found himself in trouble before eking out a hard-fought draw against Boris Gelfand of Israel in a hotly-contested third round game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow on Monday.
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 D Gukesh suffered his second straight defeat at the FIDE Grand Swiss, losing to Greece's Nikolas Theodorou in the sixth round in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on Tuesday.
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