The defeat dented the Indian Grandmaster's chances of winning the sixth Corus International title for a record sixth time.
P Hari Krishna registered his second successive victory even as Viswanathan Anand and Parimarjan Negi drew again on the fourth day of the Corus chess tournament, at Wijk aan Zee, near Amsterdam, on Tuesday. Anand drew his Dutch game with Hikaru Nakamura of the United States in 33 moves after the players were left with a pair of rooks and four kingside pawns.
The Indian Grandmaster missed a possible victory in the fourth round against Vioral Bologan in the Corus\n\nChess tournament.
The Indian ace now trails Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan 1.5-0.5 after the second game of the Rapid World Championship.
Anand decided not to participate this time but he will be guiding the Indian team at the showpiece event to be held from July 28 to August 10.
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.
The title means Anand will be back for the 2006 Chess Classic of Mainz for which the rival will be announced later.
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.
The Indian Grandmaster lost to Viktor Bologan in the third round of the Dortmund 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 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.
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.
Viswanathan Anand opened his campaign at the 20th Ciudad de Leon chess tournament with a comprehensive 3-1 win over Ruslan Ponomariov.
The Indian ace shares the lead with Alexander Morozevich after four rounds in the Amber chess tournament.
After nine rounds in the Corus chess tournament, the Indian ace is in third place.
The Indian ace beat former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov in the sixth round in the Corus chess 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 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.
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.
The Indian ace gained 11 points to breach the landmark but missed the top rank by just one point.
With this win Praggnanandhaa also added some more spice to the tale around the highest rated Indian as he again overtook Viswanathan Anand in live rating to clinch the top spot in the country.
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 takes on Russian Grandmaster Peter Svidler in fifth round of the Corus International chess tournament.
Three-time champion Anand was held by world No. 4 Peter Svidler in the 13th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess tournament.
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 has 1.5 points and is in tied second place with Etienne Bacrot and Michael Adams in the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand and Koneru Humpy catapulted Indian chess to new heights while Parimarjan Negi also made his presence felt in the year gone by.
Reader Manas Jati sent us this photograph.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Viswanathan Anand was on the threshold of victory despite losing the sixth game to Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk of Russia
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.
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.
The Indian ace drew with Russian champion Peter Svidler and continues to share the lead with four others in the Corus championship.
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.
A world title in the current format is something that will add to the glittering cupboard of the world number one.
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