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.
World champion Viswanathan Anand crushed his former challenger Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the third round to jump to the joint second spot in the Norway Chess 2013 super tournament in Sandnes.
The world rapid champion will start his campaign against Russian Peter Svidler in the 13th edition of Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
'The Indian Open team was extremely well prepared and motivated to win the gold medal.' 'With two players in the world top 10 club, and four players with over 2,700 ELO points (GMs Arjun Erigaisi, D Gukesh, R Praggnanandhaa, all below 20) and Vidit Gujrathi and P Harikrishna, it was a solid team.'
World champion Viswanathan Anand crashed through the defenses of Chinese champion Ding Liren and jumped to sixth spot after the end of the fifth round in the Alekhine memorial chess tournament, at the Louvre, in Paris.
Viswanathan Anand emerged clear third after the 11th round of the World chess championship.
Indian ace Viswanathan Anand named former World champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov as one of his seconds for the high-profile World Championship match against Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik, which gets underway in Bonn, Germany, on Tuesday. Apart from Kasimdzhanov, Anand will also utilize the services of his trusted partner Peter Heine Nielsen of Denmark, Radoslav Wojtaszek of Poland and Indian national champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly.
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.
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.
The Indian ace beat the Latvian-born Spaniard in the first round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
Aruna Anand, Viswanathan Anand's wife and manager, speaks about his preparation ahead of the World Chess Championship against Magnus Carlsen, which begins in Sochi on Friday.
With his third victory in the event, Anand came back within striking distance of the leaders. His tally of six points out of ten is only one point less than Holland's Anish Giri, Norway's Magnus Carlsen and Azerbaijan's Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, all who have seven points apiece.
D Gukesh credited mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton for helping him tame the 'emotional pressure' of competing at the World Chess Championship.
Mani Shankar Iyer, Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs, will felicitate World chess champion Viswanathan Anand at a grand function, in Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Naidu.
Viswanathan Anand and Ruslan Ponomariov played the third King v King ending in the M-Tel Masters Chess tournament on Friday.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand took an early lead by winning the first game of the rapid match against former world champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia in Bastia, France on Sunday.
Viswanathan Anand was held to a third straight draw by Ruslan Ponomariov in the third round of the Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
The extraneous support from the likes of Gary Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik in his World Championship battle has not diminished Viswanathan Anand's faith in his team of seconds. The Indian chess wizard on Tuesday ruled out any change in what he calls a 'band of brothers'.
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.
The Russian held the Indian ace in both blindfold and rapid games in the sixth round of the Amber chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand cruised past Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine with a fine performance in the rapid game in the 14th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand notched up his first title of the year when he scored an emphatic victory over German Arkadij Naiditsch to lift the Grenke Chess Classic trophy in Baden Baden, Germany.
The Indian ace beat Francisco Pons Vallejo in the blindfold game of the third round of the 14th Amber chess tournament.
The Indian Super GM remained the sole\nleader with an absolute score of 4/4.
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.
The Indian GM beat Francisco Vallejo Pons to keep joint lead in rapid chess event of the Amber tournament
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a fighting draw with Michael Adams of England in the first round of the Grenke Chess Classic that got underway in Baden-Baden, Germany.
Defending champion Viswanathan Anand won the second game of the World Chess Championship against Bulgarian challenger Veselin Topalov to level the score at 1-1, in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Sunday. The Indian Grandmaster, who played white, won on the 43rd move.
The Indian ace is in joint-second place after 11 rounds in the Corus chess tournament.
Chess has applied for inclusion in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and a final decision is expected to come next summer.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand played out his sixth draw on the trot, signing peace with long-time rival Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine in the sixth round of the Tal memorial tournament, in Moscow.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out another insipid draw with former challenger Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the fifth round of the Tal Memorial International chess tournament in Moscow. With his fifth draw on the trot, Anand has a 50 per cent score in the strongest tournament of the year and is placed joint-fifth.
If Viswanathan Anand topples Veselin Topalov, then it will be an against-the-odds victory for the maestro.
World chess champion Viswanathan Anand asserted his supremacy at the Morelia-Linares tournament for the second time on the trot after settling for a facile draw with Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the 14th and final round in Linares. Anand ended this category-21 tournament with 8.5 points and finished a half point clear of nearest rival Magnus Carlsen of Norway who played a draw with Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan in his last game.
In the second round, Anand lost the first of the two-game mini-match to Rapport with black pieces. The second game ended in a draw with the Indian playing with white pieces.
World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Norwegian prodigy Magnus Carlsen and went down 0.5-1.5 in the third round of Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Nice. Anand lost the blindfold game with white pieces and did not get a chance to recover in the rapid. With this defeat, the Indian slipped in the standings and stands joint sixth in combined, joint fifth in rapid and joint sixth in blindfold.
Billed as the most high-profile clash in chess history in more than 40 years, the World Chess Championship match -- between defending champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Magnus Carlsen of Norway -- begins in Chennai on Saturday, with the experts divided over who will walk away with the coveted title.
The Indian ace maintains a slender lead going into the final round in the Amber chess tournament.
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