The Indian Grandmaster drew with third seed Evgeny Alekseev of Russia in the sixth round in the World Junior chess championship.
FIFA World Cup set pulses racing and ended with a young, exciting France team clinching the title.
The second mini-match game between Ponomariov and Aronian was drawn on Friday.
The former World champion was playing his first game of the finals against Levon Aronian at the World Chess Cup.
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand had another bad outing, drawing seven and losing two games, to remain on joint eighth place after the end of nine rounds of blitz in the St. Louis Rapid and blitz chess tournament in St. Louis, United States.
GM Krishnan Sasikiran finished joint fourth in the Aeroflot International Open Chess tournament.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand got off to a good start with an easy draw against World No.2 United States' Fabiano Caruana in the first round of the London Chess Classic, the final leg of the Grand Chess tour.
The Indian Grandmaster beat GM Safin Shukhrat of Uzbekistan in the third round of the Masters' section in the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival.
The third seeds thrashed Croatian pair of Mario Ancic and Ivan Ljubicic 6-2, 6-2 in the French Open doubles event.
Harikrishna, Tigran Petrosian and Zhao Jun jointly lead the table with six points each after the seventh round in the World Junior Chess Championship.
India had a disappointing finish at the 37th Chess Olympiad in Italy.
Viswanathan Anand continued his roller-coaster ride in the London Chess Classic as he went down to Russian Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk in the sixth round.
The Indian eves survived some anxious moments before salvaging draws in all the three games against Poland in the fifth round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
The Indian wrestler beat Zhirayr Hovehannisyan of Armenia 3-1 in the 66kg elimination round but his opening bout loss proved costly.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Viswanathan Anand drew with tournament leader Levon Aronian of Armenia in the eighth and penultimate round to stay in sixth position at the Altibox Norway chess tournament in Stavanger, Norway.
Joining the Bulgarian in the semi-finals of the World Chess Championship are England's Michael Adams, Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan and Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan.
Grandmaster B Adhiban finished tied third at the Chess.com Isle of Man International tournament after beating the highly-regarded Michael Adams of England in the ninth and final round, in Isle of Man (UK) on Monday.
The Rest of the World team will play Armenia in a chess match to commemorate the 75th birth anniversary of late Armenian world champion Tigran Petrosian.
The third seeded pair registered a comfortable 6-3, 6-4 win against Karsten Braasch of Germany and Sargis Sargsian of Armenia.
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2020.
P Harikrishna leads by seven points after completion of eight rounds in the World Junior Chess championship.
The Romanian striker joined up with the squad as they left for Yerevan to face Armenia in a World Cup qualifier next week.
The world number two will not be fielded in India's first round match against unfancied Uruguay in the Chess Olympiad.
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.
Both men were the dominant sprinters of their time, although their paths diverged sharply after their respective triumphs.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand played out a thrilling draw with Anish Giri of Holland but bowed out of contention to win the Candidates after the 13th and penultimate round, which concluded in Moscow.
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a disappointing final round loss against Sergey Karjakin of Russia to finish joint eighth in the St Louis Rapid Chess tournament in St Louis, on Thursday.
Viswanathan Anand led the Rest of the World team to a scintillating 3.5-2.5 victory against Petrosian team on the opening day of the Petrosian Memorial match.
India says it cannot accept a project that ignores its core concerns on sovereignty and territorial integrity.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a shocking loss against Sergey Karjakin of Russia in the fourth round of Candidates Chess tournament.
Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand crashed through the defences of World No 2 Fabiano Caruana in the fifth round and jumped to the joint second spot in the Sinquefield Cup, in St Louis, US.
Viswanathan Anand ended his stint with a draw against World Champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway and finished at ninth position in the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis.
The Argentine joined third seed Rainer Schuettler, fifth seed Mark Philippoussis and sixth seed Tim Henman as a first round loser.
Manchester United signed Chile forward Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal in a swap deal with midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan after a protracted transfer saga finally ended on Monday.
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