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The Indian Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna started off his Geneva FIDE Grand Prix on an astounding note, defeating Russian GM Alexander Riazantsev in his opening round game in Geneva.
Erigaisi may have had to work harder but the Indian youngster, who is currently World number four, was never quite away from winning his game.
The Indian Grandmaster slipped to second position in the Montreal International Chess tournament after drawing his sixth round game against Polish Grandmaster Kamil Miton.
India's Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna dished out a stellar performance to beat world No. 4 Levon Aronian of Armenia in the sixth round to climb to top of the leaderboard at the Geneva FIDE Grand Prix chess tournament.
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.
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.
The grandmaster scored significant win over Sergei Tiviakov in the eighth round of the Montreal International chess tournament.
Grandmaster P Harikrishna took unwarranted risks but finally drew with Romanian GM Mihail Marin in the sixth round of the 50th Reggio Emilia International Chess tournament in Italy. With three draws, two wins and a loss against Zoltan Almasi of Hungary, Harikrishna took his tally to 3.5 points out of a possible six and remained in joint second spot.
P Harikrishna split points with Ferenc Berkes in the third round at the Marx Gyorgy Memorial chess.
He settled for a draw against Ruslan Ponomariov in the 10th round of the Aerosvit International Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Indian Grandmaster Pendalya Harikrishna suffered a double jolt at the hands of leader B U Xiangzhi of China on the fourth day of the Bilbao Blindfold World Cup of Chess in Spain.
The Indian chess ace drew with Ferenc Berkes to retain sole lead at the Marx Gyorgy Memorial Chess title.
With two more rounds remaining, Harikrishna is lying low with paltry three points.
The fourth round defeat saw the Indian Grandmaster surrender joint-lead in the Montreal International Chess tournament.
The Indian had to share the title with Peter Acs after being held to a draw by Csaba Balogh in the final round.
Viswanathan Anand scored 31 wins and eight draws in a simultaneous exhibition, but Pendyala Harikrishna proved disappointed in the Chess Classic World Rapid championship.
He registered a smashing victory over defending champion Almasi of Hungary in the third round.
P Harikrishna went down fighting against Alexander Grischuk in the fourth round of Aerosvit chess
P Harikrishna started his campaign with a draw against Jan Timman of Holland in the first round of the Ciudad de Pamplona International chess tournament.
The world junior champion beat GM Zhang Zhong of China for his fourth straight victory in the Sanjin Hotel Cup Grandmasters' tournament.
Coming into the day at the back of a splendid win and a day's rest, the World No. 16 Indian, playing with black pieces, could not maintain his momentum and despite giving a tough fight in a game that lasted for 52 moves, failed to avert his second loss of the campaign.
Harikrishna outwitted top seed Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov of the Netherlands in the third round of the Crown Group of Essent International chess tournament.
India's Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna put up a spirited fight against top seeded Dutch Grandmaster Anish Giri but couldn't avert his first defeat in the Shenzhen Longgang Chess Grand Master tournament in Shenzhen, China on Saturday.
The Indian world junior champion beat Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria in the second round of the Crown group of Essent chess tournament.
After winning the first game, India's World junior champion drew the second of the two-game mini match in Lausanne Young Masters International Chess tournament .
The Indian had to battle for a draw against world's youngest ever Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin.
The only Indian remaining in the World Cup Chess was beaten in the Round 3 tie-break.
P Harikrishna jumped in to sole lead at Ciudad de Pamplona Chess tournament with a win over GM Laurent Fresinet
He scored a thumping victory over Aguado in the second round of the 15th Ciudad De Pamplona International Chess tournament.
The defeat saw the Indian slip to joint-third in the Bermuda Invitational chess tournament.
The world junior champion beat Grandmaster Luke McShane of England for his third straight win in the Sanjin Hotel Cup Grandmasters tournament.
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.
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.
Indian Grand Master Pentala Harikrishna beat Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in his eighth round tie in the Moscow FIDE Grand Prix in Moscow.
The Tisco GM beat compatriot Pendyala Harikrishna in the sixth round of the Tata International Chess tournament.
