The Indian ace was beaten by Veselin Topalov in the blindfold game in the second round of Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.\n\n
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
Indian Grandmaster Harika Dronavalli had to settle for the bronze medal after a heartbreaking defeat against Tan Zhongyi of China via the tie-breaker in the semi-finals of the FIDE World Women's Chess Championship in Tehran.
Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand bounced back from his fourth round loss and beat his former world championship challenger Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria on Wednesday in the fifth round of London Chess Classic, the concluding edition of the Grand Chess Tour.
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy could not breach Betul Cemre Yildiz's defence and settled for a draw against the lowest ranked local favourite in the third round of the IS Bank Attaturk Fide Women's Grand Prix chess tournament now underway in Istanbul.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran defeated Commonwealth champion and former World championship finalist Nigel Short of England in the fifth round of the 'B' group in the Corus International chess tournament, in Wijk Aan Zee (The Netherlands), on Thursday.
Justifying his top billing Grandmaster Boris Gelfand of Israel won the Chess World Cup, defeating former world champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in the tie-breaker of the final in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia.
The top seed needs just a victory tomorrow against Kruttika Nadig of Maharashtra to clinch the Nat. A women's chess title.\n\n
Curtains were drawn on the women challenge at the Chess World Cup with the defeat of Judit Polgar at the hands of top seeded Grandmaster Boris Gelfand of Israel.
Norway's Carlsen wins World Chess Championship for fourth time
Harika had carried the Indian hopes nicely till the tie-breaker of the third round. However, she got a jolt in the first game of the rapid tie-break where both players had 25 minutes on their clock.
World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a shocked defeat against Norwegian prodigy Magnus Carlsen in the sixth round to slump to joint fourth of Magistral Ciudad de Linares chess tournament in Linares on Thursday. With his second loss in the first six rounds, Anand has now three points out of a possible six and will have to do a lot of catching up in the remaining eight rounds of the Super Grandmasters tournament.
Grandmaster and former Asian champion S P Sethuraman has knocked out former FIDE champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in a big first round upset at the Chess World Cup in Tbilisi, Georgia.
India men's team's medal chances took a hit as Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran lost a crucial match which resulted in Indian men's team shock defeat at the hands of eighth seeded Armenia in the ninth round of the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi.
The Indian Grandmaster was beaten by GM Dmitry Jakovenko of Russia in the Aerosvit International Chess tournament.
Grandmaster SP Sethuraman had to defend with the skin of his teeth but the effort was rewarding as he held higher ranked compatriot P Harikrishna to a draw in the first game of the second round of World Cup of Chess in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand gave a fine endgame lesson to young Alireza Firouzja, jumping to joint sixth position at the end of 11th round of Tata Steel Masters, in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands, on Saturday. With his second victory, Anand clawed his way back to a fifty percent score and will now hope to end the tournament on a high. At just 16 years, Firouzja is less than one third of Anand's age, and the Indian ace showed that the Iranian still has a lot to learn.
National champion Grandmaster Surya Sekhar Ganguly edged out Russian GM Mikhail Ulibin on better tie-break score to win the seventh Parsvnath International Open chess tournament in Delhi on Monday. In the 10th and final round, overnight sole leader Ganguly settled for a quick draw with P Karthikeyan after just 15 moves to take his points tally to 8.5.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran stormed into the pre-quarterfinals of the World Chess Cup defeating Bartlomiej Macieja of Poland in both the blitz tiebreak games of the third round
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
Indoor Asian Games in Macau, with Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran and Koneru Humpy winning gold in individual Blitz chess and Geet Sethi grabbing second place in billiards singles.
Bu Xiangzhi of China asserted his supremacy, winning the Bilbao Chess Blindfold World Cup, which concluded in Bilbao, Spain, on Sunday.
The defeat saw the Indian Grandmaster slip to fifth place in the Blindfold World Cup chess tournament.
Indian Grandmaster Koneru Humpy rose to the occasion defeating Yifan Hao of China in the return game and forced the mini-match in to a tie-breaker in the ongoing World Women's Chess Championship in Nalchik (Russia).
Top seed Grandmaster Koneru Humpy suffered her second successive loss to go down 0-2 in the North Urals Cup at Krasnoturinsk, Russia.
Rude defeats for World champion Viswanthan Anand and fellow Grandmaster Koneru Humpy summed up a pathetic day for the Indians in the first round of Corus Chess tournament.
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.
Former world champion Veselin Topalov handed Krishnan Sasikiran his first defeat of the tournament in Sofia.
Women Grandmaster and top seed D Harika kept herself in contention for the gold medal after beating compatriot Eesha Karavade in the ninth round of the World Junior Girls Chess Championship.
The Indian randmaster beat the former Russian champion in the second round of the Aeroflot International chess tournament.
P Harikrishna lost the crucial third board to see India go down to Ukraine at the Chess Olympiad
The top seed drew his ninth and penultimate round game against Hou Yifan.
Ian Nepomniachtchi was declared winner of the World Youth Star chess tournament after finishing joint-first with Negi, Rauf Mamedov and Zaven Andriasian.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran suffered a defeat at the hands of Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in the first game of pre-quarterfinals at the chess World Cup.
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy got back into the reckoning after defeating International Master Sergey Kayumov of Uzbekistan in the sixth round of the Dubai International Chess championship in Dubai on Saturday.
Indian Grandmaster Pendalya Harikrishna suffered a double jolt at the hands of leader B U Xiangzhi of China on the fourth day of the Bilbao Blindfold World Cup of Chess in Spain.
The other quarter-finalists in the World Chess Cup are Evgeny Bareev, Etinnie Bacrot, Levon Aronian, Michail Gurevich, Ruslan Ponomariov, Sergei Rublevsky and Alexander Grischuk.
Anand has been trying to play very complicated positions and the sixth round was no different.
