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Former World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a draw against Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik in the second game of their four-game match for the Sparkassen Trophy in Dortmund on Thursday.
World champion Viswnathan Anand played out his second draw in the Zurich Chess Challenge, easily holding world number two Vladimir Kramnik of Russia to an easy draw in the second round in Zurich.
The Indian ace shares the third place with Garry Kasparov at Linares.
The victory, the Indian ace's first, enabled him move out of the last position in the M-Tel Masters Chess tournament.
The victory, the Indian ace's first, enabled him move out of the last position in the M-Tel Masters Chess tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by arch-rival Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the second round, in Group 'A', in the 73rd Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands. With just one decisive game in the premier group, Anand remains in joint-lead along with Jan Smeets of Holland, Hikaru Nakamura of United States and lone winner of the day Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia, who defeated Wang Hao of China.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand played out a quick draw with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia to remain in second spot after the end of the third round of the Bilbao final masters tournament.
Viswanathan Anand held the upper hand with an extra pawn but settled for a draw in a tense encounter with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia after 32 moves in the second game of the World Chess Championship.
Both players opted for safety and split the point in the opening round of the Dortmund chess meet.
14 young Indian chess players including D Gukesh, the world's second youngest Grand Master, and R Praggnanandhaa will be coached by former World champion Vladimir Kramnik at a 10-day camp, in Chennai, from January 8. The camp, the second organised by Microsense, will also see Boris Gelfand, a former World title challenger, impart training to the Indian players.
'I see an unjust personal attack by some players, probably due to sheer jealousy.'
Victory eluded Viswanathan Anand yet again as the world champion played out a draw with Russian Vladimir Kramnik in the eighth and penultimate round of the Tal Memorial Chess Tournament in Moscow.
The Russian beat Bulgaria's Vaselin Topalov via the tie-breaker in the re-unification match.
Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand has also expressed his willingness to partner the company in helping the youngsters.
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.
The two chess giants agreed to split the point after only 16 moves at Linares.
Anand now has eight points from six rounds - of two games each - and shares the lead with Evegeny Bareev.
Anand despite only half a point in rapid maintained his second posisition in Rapid section.
Playing white in a Tarrasch variation, former World champion Anand settled for a draw in 40 moves, to win the match 2.5-1.5.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand split the point with leader Vladimir Kramnik of Russia to remain second after the end of the fifth and penultimate round of Bilbao Final Masters chess tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the fourth game of the World Championship in Bonn, Germany on Saturday. With eight more games to be played, the scoreline now reads 2.5-1.5 in favour of Anand.
Kramnik leads the field in the Mtel Masters chess, with Anand, Topalov, Polgar and Adams close behind after two rounds.
World champion Viswanathan Anand capitalised on a blunder by Vladimir Kramnik of Russia to beat him in the final round and finish second in the Zurich Chess Challenge that concluded in Zurich.
Tne Indian ace beat World champion Ruslan Ponomariov while Kramnik accounted for Judit Polgar in the quarter-finals of the World Rapid Chess Championship.
The two stars, who share a great friendship, have a lot of respect for each other's playing abilities
World champion Viswanathan Anand started his campaign with a draw in blindfold game against Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the first round of Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess tournament in Nice, France. Bulgarian Veselin Topalov emerged winner against Peter Leko of Hungary.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand got off to a good start in the second leg of Alekhine Memorial Chess Tournament by holding Vladimir Kramnik for an easy draw in the sixth round that concluded in St Petersburg.
The defeat dented the Indian Grandmaster's chances of winning the sixth Corus International title for a record sixth time.
World champion Viswanathan Anand scored his second sensational victory with black against Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the fifth game of the world championship, thus extending his lead to two points.
Viswanathan Anand drew with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the eighth round of the Corus chess tournament.
Despite the draw, Anand with 6.5 points stretched his lead to a clear full point at the Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the first game of the World Chess Championship.
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.
In the second game of the two-game final, of the Dortmund Sparkassen chess tournament, Anand will be playing with black pieces.
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