Alireza Firouzja remained in joint lead with Caruana on 5.5 points and these two are now ahead of Wesley So of United States and Jorden Van Foreest of Holland.
Russia's Garry Kasparov took a decisive step for his ninth title at Linares after crushing Britain's Michael Adams.
While Garry Kasparov stretched his lead to a full point over Topalov in the 9th round of the 22nd Linares super Grandmasters' tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand could not fetch a win till the very end as he settled for a draw with Russia's Sergey Karjakin in the 10th and final round of fifth Final Chess Masters to finish a lowly fifth, in Bilbao, Spain.
Viswanathan Anand opened his campaign at the 20th Ciudad de Leon chess tournament with a comprehensive 3-1 win over Ruslan Ponomariov.
After nine rounds in the Corus chess tournament, the Indian ace is in third place.
The Indian ace shares the lead with Alexander Morozevich after four rounds in the Amber chess tournament.
The Indian ace beat former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov in the sixth round in the Corus chess tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand missed out on a chance to score a crucial victory and had to settle for a draw against challenger Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the ninth game of the World Chess Championship in Sofia on Thursday. The players are locked 4.5-4.5 with just three more encounters remaining in the 12-game affair.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand played out his second draw on the trot, signing peace with Levon Aronian of Armenia in the second round of 5th Final Masters in Sao Paulo.
World Chess Champion Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand on Tuesday termed the controversy over his nationality as disappointing but said he does not want to stretch the issue too far and would prefer to move on.
The Indian ace drew his sixth round games with Vladimir Kramnik in the Amber chess championship.
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 champion beat Alexei Shirov of Spain in the eighth round of the Morelia-Linares International chess tournament to extend his lead at the top of the eight-player double round-robin tournament to a full point.
The Indian ace gained 11 points to breach the landmark but missed the top rank by just one point.
The Indian ace beat Vladmir Kramnik in the rapid games segment, after the two classical \n\ngames in the final were drawn.
The Indian ace has 1.5 points and is in tied second place with Etienne Bacrot and Michael Adams in the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament.
Three-time champion Anand was held by world No. 4 Peter Svidler in the 13th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess tournament.
The Indian ace takes on Russian Grandmaster Peter Svidler in fifth round of the Corus International chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand proved his true mettle yet again as he outclassed Levon Aronian of Armenia in a long-drawn game in the ninth round of the Candidates Chess tournament in Moscow.
Viswanathan Anand and Koneru Humpy catapulted Indian chess to new heights while Parimarjan Negi also made his presence felt in the year gone by.
Viswanathan Anand was on the threshold of victory despite losing the sixth game to Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk of Russia
The Indian ace drew with Russian champion Peter Svidler and continues to share the lead with four others in the Corus championship.
Scores of people and students turned out at the Chennai domestic airport to receive the World champion, who has also broken through the Elo 2800 points barrier.
Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand showed immense resilience to beat challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel in a tense rapid chess tie-breaker to win the World Championship crown for the fifth time and fourth in a row.
The Indian ace won the rapid competition, but finished third overall in the Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
The defending champion beat Vassily Ivanchuk 2-0 to take second place in the combined standings with 12 points in the Amber Blind and Rapid chess tournament.
The world rapid champion will start his campaign against Russian Peter Svidler in the 13th edition of Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
A world title in the current format is something that will add to the glittering cupboard of the world number one.
After drawing with Vladimir Kramnik in the opening blindfold game, world champion Viswanathan Anand defeated the Russian in their rapid match in the first round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament in Nice, France. Anand emerged joint leader in the rapid and combined standings after beating Kramnik.
Victory continues to elude defending champion Viswanathan Anand. The Indian Grandmaster failed to break the deadlock yet again and had to settle for a draw against challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel in the fifth game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow. This is the fifth successive draw in as many games and leaves the score tied at 2.5-2.5.
Defending champion Viswanathan Anand could not break the ice and settled for an easy draw as white against challenger Boris Gelfand in the tenth game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow on Thursday.
Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand suffered a jolt in his title defence as he lost to his Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand in the seventh game of the World Chess Championship in Moscow.
Vishwanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand drew the first game of their 12-game world chess championship match played at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
World champion Viswanathan Anand ended his campaign with an easy draw against Sergey Karjaikin of Russia in the ninth and final round of Tal Memorial Chess tournament that concluded in Moscow.
With five players tied at the top after five rounds, Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand face a tough challenge to annex the Corus chess title.
Viswanathan Anand emerged clear third after the 11th round of the World chess championship.
The Indian ace played dangerously attacking chess to beat the Armenian in the second round of the Corus tournament.
The defending champion played out a 23-move draw with GM Peter Leko of Hungary in the Corus Grandmasters Chess Tournament.
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