Indian Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran earned 6.5 points from 10 rounds to became the first Indian to win the 52nd Capablanca Memorial Chess tournament at Varadero, Cuba.
The Indian Grandmaster now trails the defending champion by a full point after the eighth round at the Biel chess festival.
He beat Zoltan Almasi of Hungary in the eighth round of the third Marx Gyorgy memorial Grandmasters chess tournament.
The draw kept the Indian Grandmaster in joint-fifth position after the third round in the Aerosvit International Chess tournament.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran beat GM Konstantin Landa in the fifth round and moved to second place in the Aeroflot Open.
Indoor Asian Games in Macau, with Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran and Koneru Humpy winning gold in individual Blitz chess and Geet Sethi grabbing second place in billiards singles.
The Indian Grandmaster moved to joint-fourth after the fourth round in the Aerosvit International Chess tournament.
The young Grandmaster scored a record nine points out of a possible 11 in the tournament.
The Indian Grandmaster beat Shakriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan in the seventh round, in the Mtel Masters chess tournament.
The International Master shocked the top seeded Grandmaster in the fifth round of the fifth Asian Chess Championship.
P Harikrishna lost to Giovanni Vescovi in the first game of the second round in the World Chess Cup
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran suffered a defeat at the hands of Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in the first game of pre-quarterfinals at the chess World Cup.
He delivered a vital blow to English GM Michael Adams in the sixth round of the Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
The second seeded GM beat Lenier Dominiguez of Cuba in his fifth round match in the 18th North Sea Cup.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran move into joint fifth spot after the fourth round of the Master's section of the Gibtele.com chess festival.
The Indian GM stunned top seed Hikaru Nakamura of United States and now trails the tournament leader by only half a point.
The Indian GM salvaged a disappointing campaign with a victory in the last round, while Israel's Emil Sutovsky was crowned the winner.
The Indian Grandmaster beat veteran GM Pia Cramling of Sweden in the seventh round of the master's section of Gibtele.com chess festival in Gibraltar.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran played out an easy draw with Polish GM Bartlomiej Macieja in the first game of the third round of the Chess World Cup
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran started his campaign with a thumping victory over GM Alexander Onischuk of United States in the first round of the Aerosvit International chess tournament in Yalta, Ukraine.
The Indian Grandmaster lost to Russian Grandmaster Sergei Rublevsky in the fifth round of the Aerosvit International Chess tournament.
Despite the defeat, the Indian Grandmaster maintains sole lead in the Mtel chess tournament.
Indian GM Sasikiran beat Yannick Pelletier to go to the top after the sixth round in the Biel International chess festival.
GM Krishnan Sasikiran recorded his second straight victory humbling GM Mahamad Al-Modiahki of Qatar in the fifth round.
The Indian Grandmaster beat Simon Williams in the penultimate round of the Gibtele.com chess tournament.
Aarthie Ramaswamy leads the field in the women's section in the National A chess championship.
After an all-win start on Saturday, Indians on Sunday had a mixed day with both men and women chess players losing to higher-rated opponents in the fourth round in the Asian Games in Guangzhou.
The Indian Grandmaster was beaten by GM Dmitry Jakovenko of Russia in the Aerosvit International Chess tournament.
The Indian GM settled for a quick draw in the final game against Jan Timman to take the joint title.
The Indian GM beat Lars Schandorff in the sixth round of the North Sea Cup.
The Indian GM scored a tactical victory over GM Bruzon Lazaro of Cuba in the fourth round of the 18th North Sea Cup.
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania and World champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan lead the field in the category-16 Super Grandmasters Pune chess festival.
The Indian Grandmaster posed a serious threat but the top seed held on for a draw and maintained his slender half point lead.
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The Indian Grandmaster lost to Alexei Shirov in the seventh round of the Aerosvit International Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Top seed Alexander Morozevich of Russia made sure of retaining the title with a round to spare in the Biel chess festival.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran got the better of Richard Rapport of Hungary to jump to joint second spot after the end of the ninth and penultimate round of Tradewise Gibraltar chess festival in Gibraltar.
GM Krishnan Sasikiran scored a much-awaited victory against GM Tomasz Markowski of Poland in the fourth round.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran stormed into the pre-quarterfinals of the World Chess Cup defeating Bartlomiej Macieja of Poland in both the blitz tiebreak games of the third round
GM Alexander Morozevich of Russia, with 3.5 points from first five games, leads after the fifth round of the Grandmaster section in the Biel International Chess Festival.
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