Harikrishna, Chanda and Ganguly share lead before the last round in the National 'A' chess championship.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a hard-fought draw with Grandmaster Lenier Dominguez of Cuba in the third round of the 22nd Ciudad de Leon chess tournament in Linares on Sunday. Taking his tally to 1.5 points out of a possible three, the Indian ace remains in the joint third spot in the eight-player double round-robin tournament.
Grandmasters S S Ganguly and Sandipan Chanda share the lead with the top seed at the end of the 21st round in the National 'A' chess championship.
The Grandmaster from PSPB has 7.5 points and is followed by five players on 6.5 in the National A 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.
World rapid champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw with world No 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the ninth round of the Tata Steel Masters in Wijk Aan Zee, the Netherlands. Settling for his sixth draw in nine games, Anand took his tally to five points and remains joint-sixth in the 14 players, 13-round tournament.
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 Indian medal hopes in the 32nd chess Olympiad suffered a severe jolt after the men could only manage a 2-2 draw with Slovenia while the women lost 1.5-2.5 to Serbia in the eighth round in Dresden, Germany. The Indian men slipped to joint 14th spot in the standings on 11 points out of a possible 16 and now face an uphill task to keep their medal hopes alive.
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.
Indian Grandmasters Pentala Harikrishna and Krishnan Sasikiran drew their first games as the Chess World Cup got off to an exciting start in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.
Vishwanathan Anand split points with Levon Aronian to stay in lead after nine rounds at the Morelia-Linares International Chess tournament.
Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand paid for costly blunders at crucial junctures and lost a closely-fought final against Vassily Ivanchuk in Spain on Sunday. The defeat saw him relinquish the Magistral Ciudad De Leon chess crown. Ukrainian Grandmaster Ivanchuk, fresh from his triumph in the MTel Masters, won 2.5 - 1.5 to deny the Indian his eighth Leon title.
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.
The victory put the Indian Grandmaster back in joint-lead in the Montreal chess tournament.
India asserted its supremacy in chess by winning three gold medals in the rapid mixed team event and rapid individual events at the second Asian Indoor Games in Macau on Saturday.
Despite splitting the point the Indian ace shares the lead with the Czech Grandmaster.
National women's champion Tania Sachdev collected her maiden Women's Grandmaster norm after defeating German International Master Mathias Roeder in the final round of Sort International Open chess tournament in Spain.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
The Indian Grandmaster lost to Russian Grandmaster Sergei Rublevsky in the fifth round of the Aerosvit International Chess tournament.
'Some months before his death, when I had inquired about his health, he was annoyed that people assumed the worst.' '"I am not going anywhere," Rishi snapped as only he could.'
Grandmaster P Harikrishna got the better of David Navara's defence and tamed the Czech to leapfrog to the lead after the fourth round of the 50th Reggio Emilia Chess tournament.
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.
After a rather indifferent show in the opening round, Grandmaster P Harikrishna bounced back in style defeating local star Michele Godena in the second round of the 50th edition of Reggio Emilia International Chess tournament on Monday.
Viswanathan Anand split points with the Hungarian to remain in lead after the sixth round of the World Chess Championship.
Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand bounced back from his fourth round loss and beat his former world championship challenger Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria on Wednesday in the fifth round of London Chess Classic, the concluding edition of the Grand Chess Tour.
