The victory helped the national champion join overnight leaders Deepan and Pavel.
The Indian ace will aim to become the first player in the long tradition of Wijk Aan Zee to win the Corus chess tournament five times.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a hard-fought draw with Grandmaster Lenier Dominguez of Cuba in the third round of the 22nd Ciudad de Leon chess tournament in Linares on Sunday. Taking his tally to 1.5 points out of a possible three, the Indian ace remains in the joint third spot in the eight-player double round-robin tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered 0.5-1.5 defeat at the hands of leader Levon Aronian of Armenia in the eighth round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament in Nice, France. Anand drew his rapid game but ended up conceding a point in the blindfold, which cost the Indian dear as he slipped to joint fourth spot in the overall standings.
He routed Teimour Radjabov 2-0 in the second round of the Melody Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand will start his campaign against the world's youngest-ever Grandmaster, in the Corus Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand split the point with Loek van Wely in the penultimate round in group A of the Corus international chess tournament.
World Champion Viswanthan Anand had to find some brilliant resources but in the end the Indian ace found them all to hold nemesis Levon Aronian of Armenia in the fourth round of Tal memorial international chess tournament in Moscow.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the ninth and penultimate round of the Bilbao Grand Slam chess tournament to stay joint fifth. With his seventh draw in nine games Anand, playing with white, took his points tally to seven points in the soccer-like scoring system with just one round to come in the super-category tournament.
Russia's Garry Kasparov took a decisive step for his ninth title at Linares after crushing Britain's Michael Adams.
The Indian ace beat eighth seeded Grandmaster Konstantin Landa of Russia in the sixth round of Hogeschool Zeeland International Chess tournament.
Local youngster Prasanna Rao, an International Master, surprisingly held top seed Aleksandrov Aleksey of Belarus to a draw in the fourth round of the 4th Mayor's Cup International Chess Tournament on Sunday.
The Indian Grandmaster lost his final round game to Vassily Ivanchuk and had to settle for third place in the Montreal International Chess tournament.
Former world junior champion and second seed Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta beat Daniel Naroditsky of United States in quick time to jump to joint third spot after the fourth round of Groningen International open chess tournament.
Despite the draw, Anand with 6.5 points stretched his lead to a clear full point at the Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.
He is the youngest Indian to achieve the feat at 12 years, seven months and 17 days, erasing the mark set by his state-mate R Praggnanandhaa in June last year.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Russian Peter Svidler as black while World No 1 Magnus Carlsen turned the tables on Sergey Karjakin of Russia to put a twist in the tale at the Norway Chess 2013 Super Tournament in Sandnes, Norway.
Viswanathan Anand registered an easy victory in the first round of the Mtel Masters International chess tournament.
The Indian world junior champion emerged joint-winner in the International invitational tournament in Bermuda.
The Indian world junior champion was held by Ukrainian champion Andrei Volokitin in the seventh round of the invitation chess tournament in Bermuda.
Ian Nepomniachtchi was declared winner of the World Youth Star chess tournament after finishing joint-first with Negi, Rauf Mamedov and Zaven Andriasian.
The Indian ace beat International Master Safarli Eltaz of Azerbaijan in the eight round of the World Youth Stars chess tournament to move to second place.
Despite the draw the Indian Grandmaster held joint-lead with Zaven Andriasian of Armenia after the sixth round in the World Youth Stars International chess tournament.
The Indian ace beat International Master Falco Bindrich to forge ahead after the third round in the World Youth star chess tournament.
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi of PSPB clinched the National title after settling for a quick draw against Grandmaster Tejas Bakre in the final round of the REC National Premier Chess Championship in New Delhi on Wednesday.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out two draws with Loek Van Wely of the Netherlands to finish overall tied sixth after the 11th and final round in Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament in Nice. Levon Aronian of Armenia won the tournament after two easy draws with Hungarian Peter Leko. He ended up with an impressive 14.5 points from 22 games played in this unique event that featured one blindfold and one rapid game in each round.
Anand despite only half a point in rapid maintained his second posisition in Rapid section.
The Indian closed the first half of the Morelia Linares chess on a winning note with a thumping win over Peter Leko in the seventh round.
World champion Viswanathan Anand coasted to his third victory with black and jumped into sole lead after defeating Peter Leko of Hungary in the fifth round of the Morelia-Linares Chess tournament, in Morelia, Mexico, on Thursday.
The victory enabled the Indian ace narrow the gap between him and tournament leader Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the Corus chess tournament.
Anand remained on 4 points from his eight games and his chances of a victory have been almost blown away.
The draw kept Teimour Radjabov in sole lead, on 5.5 points out of a possible seven, while Anand inched to 4.5 points, in the Corus chess tournament.
Former under-10 World champion Sahaj Grover became India's youngest International Master after winning the final round game against the higher-rated Nicolas Clery to finish fifth in the International Open Chess tournament in Le Touquet, France.
The draw took Anand to two points out of a possible three in the Corus Grandmasters 'A' chess tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of young Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the fourth round of Zurich Chess Challenge in Zurich.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand opened his account after signing peace with Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the third round of Zurich chess challenge now underway in Zurich at the Savoy.
World No 1 Viswanathan Anand won the World Chess Championship after a quick draw against Hungarian Peter Leko in the 14th and final round.
GM Valerij Filippov maintained his half point lead after the eighth and penultimate round of the Aeroflot International Open Chess tournament.
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