Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand both lost their last round games.
Rustam Kasimdzhanov held Viswanathan Anand to a draw in the fourth round of the 22nd Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Anand (4150 points) won by one of the biggest margins in recent times as he finished 1575 points ahead of his nearest rival, Peter Svidler (2575).
The Indian ace, with 2774 points moved to second place, while Vladimir Kramnik dropped to third in the the latest FIDE list.
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The Indian ace is now placed second with Kasparov and Leko, behind Kramnik, at Linares.
The Indian ace is placed second behind Peter Leko in the Linares tournament.
Russia's Garry Kasparov took a decisive step for his ninth title at Linares after crushing Britain's Michael Adams.
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.
With seven rounds left at Linares, the Indian ace will have to tackle his black pieces well and score at least two victories with white.
Viswanathan Anand and Peter Leko, ended their third round clash in just 24 moves in the Linares 2005 Super GM Chess Tournament.
The two meet in the Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament that gets underway later on Wednesday.
The Indian ace failed to convert an advantageous position and settled for a draw against the World champion at Linares.
Anand drew with Spaniard Francisco Pons while Kasparov lost to Teimous Radjabov of Azerbaijan in the Linares chess tournament.
The Indian Grandmaster slipped to third place while Kasparov assured himself of at least joint-first in the Linares tournament.
The victory put the Indian ace in second place, behind Garry Kasparov, in the Linares chess tournament.
The Indian ace remains in second spot in the Linares Super Grandmasters' tournament, behind Garry Kasparov.
Viswanathan Anand went for an all out kill but had to settle for a draw as his efforts were thwarted by some brilliant defensive tactics by Garry Kasparov at Linares.
Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Framcisco Pons Vallejo in the fifth round of the 22nd Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
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Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand finished joint second after playing out a draw with Wesley So of United States in the Sinquefield Cup, which concluded in St Louis, USA.
Kasparov leads the six-game Man versus Machine contest by half a point.
Charlton's 1-0 victory takes them up three places to seventh in the table, while Blackburn remain 15th
The draw gave the Rest of the World victory over Armenia in the Tigran Petrosian chess match.\n\n
The Indian ace set up a third straight win for the Rest of the World against Armenia.
Anand has not lost his last 59 games played in the Category 19 event.
With two more rounds remaining, both Anand and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia have amassed six points from their ten games.
With this victory over the computer programme, the world no 1 is still in contention in the four-game match.
A blunder by the world No. 1 chess players allowed the computer to win the second game of the four-game match in New York.
The Indian ace won his opening match against Ruslan Ponomariov at Linares in 64 moves.
