Parimarjan Negi beat Dennis Rujigrok of Holland to jump to joint second place in the 'C' group at the Corus International chess tournaments.
Viswanathan Anand continued to share the lead with three other players after six rounds in the 66th Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Top seed Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria lost to Russian Peter Svidler to liven things up in the 'A' group of the Corus International Chess tournament.
Garry Kasparov extended his lead over nearest rivals Anand and Topalov to two point at Linares.
While Garry Kasparov stretched his lead to a full point over Topalov in the 9th round of the 22nd Linares super Grandmasters' tournament.
The world's top-rated players drew with Corus champion Peter Leko of Hungary in the eighth round of the Linares Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
The two meet in the Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament that gets underway later on Wednesday.
Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Sergei Tiviakov in the 11th round.
The Indian ace drew against Ivan Sokolov to move into the joint lead after the fourth round of the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament.
The Indian ace has 1.5 points and is in tied second place with Etienne Bacrot and Michael Adams in the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament.
With five rounds to go, defending champion Viswanathan Anand looks set to retain his title at the Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.
The Indian ace registered his third win on the trot to join the lead group at the end of the seventh round of the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand and Koneru Humpy catapulted Indian chess to new heights while Parimarjan Negi also made his presence felt in the year gone by.
The Indian ace gained 11 points to breach the landmark but missed the top rank by just one point.
