P Harikrishna outplayed Woman Grandmaster Zhao Xue of China in the second round
Grandmaster Gabriel Sargissian of Armenia won the Abu Dhabi Chess festival, finishing half a point ahead of four rivals.\n
With his seventh win in nine games, Harikrishna retained his slender half a point lead over Alexander Motylev of Russia
The Indians shared the lead with three other GMs at the end of the fourth round in the Tata Chess championship.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Monday '
IM Neelotpal Das also continued with his good form and held GM Ashot Anastesian for the second time in the World Chess championship.
Harikrishna, Tigran Petrosian and Zhao Jun jointly lead the table with six points each after the seventh round in the World Junior Chess Championship.
The Tisco GM beat compatriot Pendyala Harikrishna in the sixth round of the Tata International Chess tournament.
India made history as both its men's and women's teams clinched their first-ever gold medals at the 45th Chess Olympiad. The men's team defeated Slovenia and the women's counterparts overcame Azerbaijan in the final round.
An "embarrassed" All India Chess Federation (AICF) has filed a police complaint after a Chess Olympiad trophy its team won in the last edition of the tournament at home went missing from its office, forcing the sports body to arrange for a replica of the prized possession and tender an apology.
The young Indian GM scored a brilliant victory over Grandmaster Alexei Barsov of Uzbekistan in the seventh round in the 65th Hastings chess tournament.
Local star D Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi played out a draw in the second round of the Chennai Grand Masters Chess Championship 2023 in Chennai on Saturday.
Bu Xiangzhi of China asserted his supremacy, winning the Bilbao Chess Blindfold World Cup, which concluded in Bilbao, Spain, on Sunday.
The defeat saw the Indian Grandmaster slip to fifth place in the Blindfold World Cup chess tournament.
The victory and a full point took Gukesh to 3.5 points and gave him a clear lead in the eight-man field.
The victory over the tournament leader gave the Indian sole lead after the 7th round in the Marx Gyorgy Memorial chess tournament.
The Indian ace thrashed former World champion Veselin Topalov 1.5-0.5 to jump to joint second place after the fourth round at the Blindfold Chess World Cup.
The Indian GM was beaten by Grandmaster Alexander Morozevich on time in the World Rapid Cup chess tournament.
The former World junior champion won the Marx Gyorgy international chess tournament after settling for an easy draw with GM Ferenc Berkes in the 10th and final round game.
The Indian ace, who is a full point clear of nearest rival Zahar Efimenko of Ukraine, needs only a draw in the final round to win the Marx Gyorgy memorial chess tournament.
Hungary will officially host the 45th edition of the Olympiad for the first time, having hosted the second unofficial Chess Olympiad in 1926.
The former World Junior champion beat Giovanni Vescovi of Brazil at the World Chess Cup.
The Indian world junior champion maintained a full point lead after drawing with Emil Sutovsky of Israel in the fourth round of the Essent chess tournament.
The Indian ace settled for a quick draw with Grandmaster Gabrielo Sargissian in the ninth and final round of the Reykjavik International chess tournament.
The Indian ace beat the tournament leader and top seed to move within striking distance of the title in the Category-16 Super Grandmaster tournament.
P Harikrishna suffered an unexpected defeat against Ruben Felgaer and slipped from his overnight joint second spot
P Harikrishna drew with Bulgarian GM Ivan Cheparinov to remain in joint lead after third round
The Indian scored 8.5 points in all with 7 victories against Alexander Motylev, who finished second with 7.5 points
The Indian world junior champion emerged joint-winner in the International invitational tournament in Bermuda.
The Indian ace beat GM Lenier Dominguez of Cuba in the penultimate round of the Bermuda invitational chess tournament to move to second place.
The Indian GM marched his way in to the second round of the World Chess Cup with a sweeping 2-0 win over Yu Shaoteng of China
Grandmaster and National champion S P Sethuraman clicked when it mattered and defeated world number 21 and compatriot P Harikrishna to enter the third round of World Cup of chess in Baku, Azerbaijan.
P Harikrishna outplayed Spanish hope Miguel Cordoba in the fifth round to climb two places at Dos Hermanas International Chess
P Harikrishna settled for a draw against top seed Alexey Dreev of Russia but managed to grab the second spot
Arjun Erigaisi briefly reached a career-high live rating of 2771.2 earlier this week and is the only Indian since Vishwanathan Anand to do so.
India became only the third country to win both the men's and women's gold medals at the same Chess Olympiad.
The World Junior Champion retained his half point lead over Alexander Motylev in the 10th round of the Grandmasters chess tournament.
P Harikrishna started off with a facile victory over Grandmaster Zhang Pengxiang of China in the first round
The 18-year-old Indian drew with top seeded Grandmaster Ferenc Berkes of Hungary in the final round to emerge champion.
He was beaten by Andrei Volokitin in the first game of the two-game semi-final on Saturday.
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