Caruana kept his slender half point lead going in to the final round in the 10-player round-robin tournament, a part of the Grand Chess tour.
FIDE Master Girish A Koushik of India shot into the joint lead with Armenian Grandmaster Robert Hovhannisyan, with seven points, after defeating GM Nils Grandelius of Sweden in the eighth round of the 50th World Junior Chess Championships in Chennai on Wednesday. With this victory, Koushik earned a nine-game GM norm from the event and is well-placed to annex the title.
Vaishali becomes India's 84th Grandmaster, joins brother Praggnanandhaa in elite club
Grandmaster and Asian champion P Harikrishna proved his mettle by outclassing Emil Sutovsky and guiding India to a much-needed 2.5-1.5 victory over Israel in the fourth round of the World Team Chess Championship in Ningbo, China, on Wednesday.
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is still third on 9.5 points in the Norway Chess tournament.
India's Sahaj Grover, who achieved his final Grandmaster norm at the World Junior Chess Championship, ended his campaign at the 16th spot after losing his final-round game in the event in Athens.
Grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi scored his fourth victory on the trot and gave India an early lead in the match against Serbia in the fourth round of the ongoing 45th Chess Olympiad.
Praggnanandhaa on Sunday attributed the change in fortune to increased confidence and ambition
Grandmaster Tania Sachdev beat Bianca Muhren of Holland to jump into the joint lead at the World Junior Girls chess championship.
Defending champions Triveni Continental Kings outclassed PBG Alaskan Knights in both final matches to secure their second successive title in the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League.
Following Arjun's win, World Championship challenger D Gukesh put it across Parham Maghsoodloo with black pieces, swindling the Iranian towards the end of the first time-control.
Top seed Parimarjan Negi was beaten in the third round of the boys' under-12 at the World Youth Championships.
With nine rounds still to come in the blitz event, Wei Yi has amassed 20.5 points with seven wins on the first day of blitz. Ending the day with 7.5 out of a possible nine, Yi, seems like a man possessed and unless a hurricane hits him, is poised to win the first leg of the Grand Chess Tour.
Three of the four Indian Open team players are in line for gold and silver medals for the individual performance.
Erigaisi may have had to work harder but the Indian youngster, who is currently World number four, was never quite away from winning his game.
The FIDE, world chess governing body, has revealed that it tried its best to convince India to allow Norway to stage one half of the 2013 World Chess Championship match but it refused.
Caruana became the sole leader and also got back to number two in live world rankings.
After playing exhaustive chess for over three decades, Viswanathan Anand has assured himself a place in the league of all time greats as he retained the World Championship crown with consummate ease against Veselin Topalov in his own den in Sofia, Bulgaria on Tuesday.
The Indian men went down to the United States of America 1-3 on Thursday and are now on the verge of going out of medal contention in the World Team Chess championship in Ningbo, China.
India's D. Gukesh and China's Ding Liren settled for a draw in the eighth round of the 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship
Indian Grandmaster Gukesh made history on Thursday, becoming the youngest-ever to win the world title defeating Liren in the 14th and final game of the championship in Singapore.
After scoring their fifth victory on the trot, the Indian men maintained their joint lead with 10 points along with China, Vietnam and Hungary.
'The Indian earthquake in Toronto is the culmination of the shifting tectonic plates in the chess world.'
World Championship challenger Gukesh Dommaraju played out a hard-fought draw with Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia.
Indian men managed to beat a spirited Egypt in the eighth round to help themselves from occupying the bottom place in the World Team Chess Championships in Ningbo, China.
Chess will crown a new world champion when Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren begin their battle on Sunday.
International Master, renowned trainer and a mentor to many aspirants, Varugeese Koshy, has passed away. He was 66.
Over the past few months, the overall interest in chess is reported to have doubled, with more players than ever coming together to participate in chess events that are being increasingly held through online platforms
Viswanathan Anand won the World Chess Championship beating Veselin Topalov in the final game of the 12-game tournament in Sofia (Bulgaria) on Tuesday.
India continued its recovery journey and downed China Two 2.5-1.5 in the seventh round of the World Women's Team Chess Championship in Ningbo on Wednesday. Mary Ann Gomes starred in India's lone victory over China Two while the remaining three games were drawn, giving the team a much-needed victory at this stage of the championship.
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy's crucial victory helped last-minute entrant Indian women's team settle for a 2-2 draw with Ukraine in the first round of the ongoing World Women Team Chess Championship in Mardin, Turkey.
India's latest GM is hoping to improve on his third placing at the last World championship in Goa.
World champion Anand spoke exclusively from Sofia after beating Veselin Topalov 6.5 to 5.5 to retain the title he won in 2008.
16 of the world's top Grandmasters will battle for honours in the World Rapid Chess tournament in France.
Viswanathan Anand took yet another step, coming within one game of retaining his world title, as he drew the eighth game and took his tally to 5.5 points as against Vladimir Kramnik's 2.5 in the 12-game World Chess Championship final in Bonn. Anand now needs just one point from remaining four games to be crowned world champion yet again.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand of India defeated former world championship challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel in the fifth round to make a strong comeback in the 10th Tal Memorial chess championship, in Moscow on Sunday.
Gukesh will have to carry with him the tag of world champion and along with it loads of expectations and increased scrutiny. But the 19-year-old is prepared to stand in the limelight.
GMs S S Ganguly and Harikrishna finished eighth and ninth respectively.
Arjun Erigaisi breathed a sigh of relief after receiving his US visa to compete in the upcoming World Rapid and Blitz Championships in New York
World Chess champion Viswanathan Anand has remained in the lead of the world title match in Sofia after he and his Bulgarian opponent Veselin Topalov drew the fifth game on Friday.
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