The Indian Grandmaster slipped to second position in the Montreal International Chess tournament after drawing his sixth round game against Polish Grandmaster Kamil Miton.
The Indian Grandmaster split the point with Canada's Pascal Charbonneau in the seventh round of the eighth Montreal International Chess Tournament.
The victory put the Indian Grandmaster back in joint-lead in the Montreal chess tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand missed chances galore in the blindfold game against Chinese Wang Yue and had to be content with an overall joint-second finish in the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Nice, France. Anand, however, maintained supremacy in the rapid section as he tied with Levon Aronian of Armenia and Gata Kamsky of the United States.
Viswanathan Anand now lies in second place with four points after the seventh round of Mtel Masters international chess tournament.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand survived some anxious moments in the blindfold game before registering a thumping victory in the rapid to register a clinical 1.5-0.5 victory over Gata Kamsky in the second round of Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Nice.
Russian-turned-American Grandmaster Gata Kamsky stormed into the final of the World Chess Cup, defeating Norwegian super talent Magnus Carlsen in the second game of the semi-finals in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, on Monday. He will meet the winner of the match between Alexei Shirov of Spain and Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine.
The Indian ace, who is second in the table, took his tally to 3 points after the fourth round of the Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
The Indian ace beat Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine in just 37 moves at the Corus Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
Playing black, Ponomariov beat Loek Van Wely, while, with white, Grischuk got the better of American Gata Kamsky at the World Chess Cup.
American Grandmaster Gata Kamsky beat Spaniard Alexei Shirov in the second game in the final of the chess World Cup and now needs only two draws to capture the title.
Latvian-born Spaniard Alexei Shirov found the going tough and played out a draw with Gata Kamsky of the United States in the first game of the finals of the chess World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia.
Latvian-born Spaniard Alexei Shirov earned the right to meet Gata Kamsky of the United States in the final of the chess World Cup following a 1.5-0.5 victory over Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine in the rapid tie-break games of the semi-finals.
Former Russian champion Peter Svidler held the Indian ace in the ninth and penultimate round of the Mtel Masters chess tournament.
He played out a safe draw with Russian Peter Svidler to move into joint lead after the fifth round of the Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand suffered a shocking defeat in the third round of the Mtel Masters international chess tournament.
The fourth round defeat saw the Indian Grandmaster surrender joint-lead in the Montreal International Chess tournament.
Despite the defeat, the Indian Grandmaster maintains sole lead in the Mtel chess tournament.
The Indian Grandmaster needs to win his last game against Boris Gelfand to have a shot at the title in the Corus tournament.
But the Indian ace, despite the defeat continues to have a share of the lead with Veselin Topalov, while Kamsky shares the last place with Etienne Bacrot. \n
Grandmaster and former national champion B Adhiban beat Brazilian Grandmaster Alexander Fier in the second round and advance to the third round of the chess World Cup in Tromso, Norway, on Thursday
Grandmaster and former national champion B Adhiban was knocked out of the chess World Cup after losing his second game on the trot against higher-ranked Hikaru Nakamura of United States in the third round in Tromso, Norway.
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