World No 1 Viswanathan Anand won the World Chess Championship after a quick draw against Hungarian Peter Leko in the 14th and final round.
Hungarian Grandmaster Peter Leko was the surprise inclusion in defending champion Viswanathan Anand's team even as his Norwegian challenger Magnus Carlsen kept his cards close to his chest ahead of their much-anticipated World Championship match starting on Saturday.
Vishwanathan Anand outplayed Peter Leko in the fifth round to take sole lead at the Corus Grandmasters tournament
The victory placed the Indian ace in joint second position in the Amber chess tournament.
The India ace drew with Alexander Morozevich, winning the rapid tie but losing the blindfold, in the Amber tournament.
Viswanathan Anand put it across Michael Adams to move within striking distance of tournament leader Peter Leko.
The Indian ace is in joint-second place after 11 rounds in the Corus chess tournament.
The Indian Grandmaster starts a huge favourite against Peter Leko in the semi-final of the Dortmund Sparkassen chess tournament.
The Indian ace is grouped with young Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany, Peter Svidler and Sergei Reblevsky in the group stage of the tournament.
The World Cup champion drew with Alexander Grischuk and Alexei Shirov in his first two matches in the in World Rapid Chess Championship.
The Indian ace drew his third round game with Loek Van Wely in the Corus chess championship.\n\n
Viswanathan Anand scored a stunning win over Lev Aronian in the second round of the World Chess Championships.
Viswanathan Anand crushed Judit Polgar in the opening round of the World Chess Championships
The Indian ace trounced Peter Svidler to take the sole lead after seven rounds in the rapid section of the Melody Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
He played out a fighting draw with Peter Svidler to remain in joint lead along with Magnus Carlsen.
Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by GM Peter Heine Nielsen in the blindfold game of the 9th round at Amber
Viswanathan Anand scored a beautiful victory over Russian Peter Svidler in the fifth round of the World Chess Championships.
Anand, with a draw in 57 moves stays in shared lead with Vladimir Kramnik, both having 2.5 points from four games.
Viswanathan Anand thrashed Hungary's Peter Leko in the 12th game of the World Chess Championship on Wednesday.
World champion Viswanathan Anand outsmarted Loek Van Wely of Holland to regain joint lead after the seventh round in the 75th Tata Steel Chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee (The Netherlands.
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 Indian ace won his opening match against Ruslan Ponomariov at Linares in 64 moves.
The Indian ace drew with Peter Svidler in the penultimate round and took an unassailable lead over his nearest rivals.
The Indian ace held Frenchman Joel Lautier in the fifth round of the World Rapid Chess Championship.
Viswanathan Anand beat Spaniard Alexei Shirov in the first round of the Morelia-Linares Chess tournament.
The world champion played out a draw with Israeli Boris Gelfand to improve to joint third after the ninth round of the Corus International Chess tournament.
The Indian ace maintained his lead in the Corus chess tournament with an easy draw against Grandmaster Michael Adams.\n\n
The Indian ace will play his third round match in the Corus tournament with black pieces.\n\n
The 'Tiger from Madras', as he is fondly called, also became the first undisputed World Chess Champion since 1993 as this world championship was the culmination of the reunification of the chess world.
Viswanathan Anand replaced Vladimir Kramnik of Russia as champion, when he won the World Chess Championship in Mexico City on Saturday night.
The Indian ace is now placed second with Kasparov and Leko, behind Kramnik, at Linares.
The Indian ace is placed second behind Peter Leko in the Linares tournament.
Viswanathan Anand's quest for an elusive win continued unabated as the Indian split points with Hungarian Peter Leko for his fifth draw on the trot in the ongoing Corus Chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands.
The defeat saw the Indian ace surrender the joint lead in the Amber Chess tournament.
The Indian ace regained joint lead in the combined standings after beating Peter Leko of Hungary
World Champion Viswanathan Anand survived some anxious moments in the blindfold game before registering a thumping victory in the rapid to register a clinical 1.5-0.5 victory over Gata Kamsky in the second round of Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Nice.
Vladimir Kramnik with a tally of five points won the Dortmund title for the eighth time in his career.
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.
Rustam Kasimdzhanov held Viswanathan Anand to a draw in the fourth round of the 22nd Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
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