The Indian ace easily beat Ljubomir Ljubojevic in the fifth round in the Amber tournament.
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 ace registered his third win on the trot to join the lead group at the end of the seventh round of the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament.
He conceded an easy half point to GM Arkadi Naiditsch of Germany in the penultimate round.
The Indian ace won the rapid competition, but finished third overall in the Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
The Indian ace lost both his games to Alexander Morozevich in the seventh round and then drew with Peter Leko in the eighth round in the Amber Blind and Rapid chess tournament.
Having started off badly, the defending champion may find it difficult to keep sole possession of his crown at the Amber tournament.
The defending champion demolished Paco Vallejo for a perfect 2-0 score in the third round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
The world number two will not be fielded in India's first round match against unfancied Uruguay in the Chess Olympiad.
With five rounds to go, defending champion Viswanathan Anand looks set to retain his title at the Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.
The Indian ace drew with Peter Svidler to top Group A at the Sparkassen chess tournament in Dortmund.
The Indian ace drew his sixth round games with Vladimir Kramnik in the Amber chess championship.
16 of the world's top Grandmasters will battle for honours in the World Rapid Chess tournament in France.
Anand and Judit Polgar were the only players to finish unbeaten in the 14-player all-play-all tournament.
The Indian ace was engaged in an eventful draw with Vladimir Kramnik in the 8th round of the Corus chess tournament.
The victory placed the Indian World Cup champions in the joint lead with Alexei Shirov and Judith Polgar in the Corus chess tournament.
Bologan held Braingames champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia to a draw for his maiden title in a Super Category event.
The 16-year-old GM from Azerbaijan is the first player to beat both Kasparov and Anand with black pieces in the same year.
The Indian GM played a hard-fought 57-move draw with defending champion Peter Leko at the Dortmund chess tournament.
The defending champion scored 1.5 points out of two against Loek Van Wely and joined Vladimir Kramnik and Peter Leko on top of the standings.
The 18 wickets in this year's IPL for the Royal Challengers Bangalore will certainly boost his confidence as there is nothing like taking good form into a big event like IPL.
The Indian GM registered his first win with black pieces in the 66th edition of the Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.
With two more rounds remaining, both Anand and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia have amassed six points from their ten games.
The Indian ace runs into 15-year-old Teimour Radjabov, who had shocked Gary Kasparov, next in the Linares tournament.
The Indian ace won his opening match against Ruslan Ponomariov at Linares in 64 moves.
Judit Polgar of Hungary continues to breathe down Anand's neck.
The Indian Grandmaster said the game is suffering because of lack of clarity at the top.
The victory gave the Indian ace the sole lead in the Amber chess tournament.
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand struggled for the second day running as he was held to a draw by almost-retired Robert Hess of the United States in the second round of Isle of Man International Chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand played out his second straight draw in the Shamkir Chess tournament.
Grandmaster S P Sethuraman continued with his dream run and played out a fighting draw with higher ranked Anish Giri of Holland in the first game of the third round of World Chess Cup in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand made it to the knock-out stage in the London Chess Classic with an easy draw against Andrei Istratescu of France in the fifth round of the preliminaries that concluded at the Olympia.
Grandmaster SP Sethuraman had to defend with the skin of his teeth but the effort was rewarding as he held higher ranked compatriot P Harikrishna to a draw in the first game of the second round of World Cup of Chess in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is just 13 years old but the boy is already going places and this was his second win against a 2700 Grandmaster.
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.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
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