Young Indian Grandmaster Vaishali Rameshbabu's fine run in the first leg of FIDE chess.com Women Speed Chess Championships ended on Friday with a defeat in the semi-finals at the hands of Anna Ushenina of Ukraine. The 19-year-old Chennai player went down 4.5-5.5 to the experienced Ukrainian GM in an exciting last four clash of the online tournament.
World Championship challenger D Gukesh on Sunday said he didn't think about his personal achievements and was prepared to do "whatever it takes" to secure India's maiden gold medal at the Chess Olympiad following near-misses in previous editions.
Gukesh's journey wasn't easy as his family dug into their savings and also turned to crowd-funding to fuel his dream.
The Indian ace is placed second behind Peter Leko in the Linares tournament.
Vaishali completed the requisite 2500 ELO points Llobregat Open tournament in Spain to become only the third Indian woman after Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli to become a GM.
World champion Viswanathan Anand took a quick draw and continued to trail after five rounds of the 70th Corus Grandmasters chess tournament, even as women's world No 2 Koneru Humpy also remained winless after five rounds.
The Indian is seeded 8th in this strong tournament and has so far produced fine flair.
He bagged the Menorca Open crown in April, finished second in TePe Sigeman Chess Tournament in May and also finished joint-fifth in the Sharjah Masters Open tournament.
Vidit Gujrathi suffers first defeat
Vladimir Kramnik with a tally of five points won the Dortmund title for the eighth time in his career.
The Indian ace outplayed Germany's Arkadij Naiditch for his first win at the Sparkassen Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
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.
The Indian ace was held for the second successive day in the Morelia/Linares Super Grandmasters' chess tournament.
Anand remained on 4 points from his eight games and his chances of a victory have been almost blown away.
He also went on to laud the 18-year-old Indian grandmaster and explained why he was taking more time initially in the game.
The Indian ace failed to convert an advantageous position and settled for a draw against the World champion at Linares.
The victory gave the Indian ace the joint lead with Vladimir Kramnik in the Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Anand drew with Spaniard Francisco Pons while Kasparov lost to Teimous Radjabov of Azerbaijan in the Linares chess tournament.
Rustam Kasimdzhanov held Viswanathan Anand to a draw in the fourth round of the 22nd Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
D Gukesh and R Praggnanadhaa played out their eighth draw in as many games at the Sinquefield Cup.
After a win over Hikaru Nakamura in his opener, the Norwegian went down to Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi in the second round. A draw with Wesley So in the third left the world no.1 in fifth spot.
The Bulgarian drew the third game of the final match against Ekaterina Kovalevskaya of Russia to lift the World Women's Chess Championship.
Viswanathan Anand continued to share the lead with three other players after six rounds in the 66th Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.
The Indian played two quiet draws with Peter Leko and clinched the top spot in the Rapid section of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Grandmasters chess tournament.
The Indian chess ace won the Morelia-Linares title and will thus attain top ranking in April.
Russia's Garry Kasparov took a decisive step for his ninth title at Linares after crushing Britain's Michael Adams.
Garry Kasparov extended his lead over nearest rivals Anand and Topalov to two point at Linares.
While Garry Kasparov stretched his lead to a full point over Topalov in the 9th round of the 22nd Linares super Grandmasters' tournament.
The world's top-rated players drew with Corus champion Peter Leko of Hungary in the eighth round of the Linares Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
With seven rounds left at Linares, the Indian ace will have to tackle his black pieces well and score at least two victories with white.
The Indian ace shares the third place with Garry Kasparov at Linares.
The world rapid champion beat Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the second round of the Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
The Indian ace outplayed Alexander Morozevich in the fifth round of the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament
Norway's Carlsen wins World Chess Championship for fourth time
The Indian Grandmaster beat Akrdij Naditischin of Germany in the under-20 Chess 960 to claim the crown.
The Indian ace beat Peter Svidler in the second round of the Sparkassen Dortmund Super Grandmasters chess championships.
Vishwanathan Anand outplayed Peter Leko in the fifth round to take sole lead at the Corus Grandmasters tournament
The Indian ace drew against Ivan Sokolov to move into the joint lead after the fourth round of the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament.
The Indian ace has 1.5 points and is in tied second place with Etienne Bacrot and Michael Adams in the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament.
In the final round Anand only needs to draw to retain the Corus Grandmasters Chess title.
