World's second youngest ever Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi was shocked by Maxim Rodshtein of Israel in the first round of the Young Grandmasters tournament, a part of the 43rd Biel Chess Festival.
The defending champion played out a 23-move draw with GM Peter Leko of Hungary in the Corus Grandmasters Chess Tournament.
The Indian ace registered a crushing victory over Emil Harminsson of Sweden in the first round of the Sigeman Chess Tournament.
The Indian GM was the only player to go undefeated in the event that featured the cream of women's chess.
The Chennai-based player will get his final norm on Thursday when he plays GM Jonathan Rowson, irrespective of the result.
Grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly continued with his demolishing form and defeated Yaroslav Zherebukh of Ukraine to jump into sole lead after the end of the third round of the Fujairah International Open Chess tournament in Fujaira, UAE, on Friday.
Grandmaster-norm holder Debashish Das came up with a fantastic effort to beat Ni Hua of China in the first round of Fujaira International Open chess tournament in the UAE on Wednesday.
The young Grandmaster scored a record nine points out of a possible 11 in the tournament.
The India ace avenged his World championship defeat, winning his seventh round match in the Corus tournament in 34 moves.
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.
World champion Viswanathan Anand opened his campaign with a thumping win over Grandmaster Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan to take the sole lead after the first round of the 22nd Magistral Ciudad de Linares Chess tournament in Linares.
Grandmaster and World junior champion Abhijeet Gupta scored a thumping victory over tournament leader Tiger Hillarp Persson of Sweden in the sixth round of 'C' group in the Corus International chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands. After beating one of the co-leaders, Manuel Bosboom, in the previous round, Abhijeet was a class act yet again as he outplayed Persson, who played white.
The Indian Grandmaster celebrated his Arjuna award in great style and moved to joint third after the fifth round in the Marx Gyorgy memorial International chess tournament in Paks, Hungary.
The grandmaster scored significant win over Sergei Tiviakov in the eighth round of the Montreal International chess tournament.
Koneru Humpy was held to a third successive draw in the Kaupthing Open International Chess Tournament in Luxembourg.
The conclusive champion of this tournament is set to be determined on Thursday.
Former world champion Veselin Topalov handed Krishnan Sasikiran his first defeat of the tournament in Sofia.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with English Grandmaster Michael Adams to be joint second after the sixth round of Grenke Chess Classic now underway in Baden Baden (Germany).
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi won the Asian continental chess championship despite losing to A R Saleh Salem of UAE in the final round that concluded in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday.
Krishnan Sasikiran was held to a draw by Viorel Iordachescu in the third round of the Sigeman & Co. chess tournament
The Indian world junior champion emerged joint-winner in the International invitational tournament in Bermuda.
Viswanathan Anand split the point with Loek van Wely in the penultimate round in group A of the Corus international chess tournament.
The Indian ace beat eighth seeded Grandmaster Konstantin Landa of Russia in the sixth round of Hogeschool Zeeland International Chess tournament.
Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda continued on his giant-killing spree and stunned top seed Baadur Jobava to jump into the joint-lead at the end of the sixth round of the Fujairah International Open chess tournament in Fujaira, UAE, on Monday.
World No. 14 Harikrishna was determined to make something out of this contest as the tournament entered its final stages. But Giri was equally resolute and held Harikrishna at bay to make it one of the longest games of the day.
Viswanathan Anand registered an easy victory in the first round of the Mtel Masters 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.
Continuing his dream run, Praggnanandhaa on Monday stunned Caruana 3.5-2.5 via the tie-break in the semi-finals to set up a summit clash with world number one and five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway at the FIDE's premier event.
GM Valerij Filippov maintained his half point lead after the eighth and penultimate round of the Aeroflot International Open Chess tournament.
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.
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.
Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi on Tuesday said "everything came together" for him at the Grand Swiss event on his way to the Candidates.
Hans Niemann, the teenage American grandmaster at the centre of an alleged cheating scandal, sued world champion Magnus Carlsen, online platform Chess.com and others for slander and libel on Thursday and is seeking at least $100 million in damages.
The Indian had to battle for a draw against world's youngest ever Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin.
The defeat saw the Indian slip to joint-third in the Bermuda Invitational chess tournament.
Former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta finished joint first at the Reykjavik International Open Chess Tournament after playing out a quick draw with local star Hannes Stefansson in the ninth and final round in Iceland on Thursday.
The Indian Grandmaster was beaten by GM Dmitry Jakovenko of Russia in the Aerosvit International Chess tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand will start his campaign with black pieces against defending champion Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine in the first round of the Corus Chess tournament.
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi ended his disappointing campaign with a draw against Maxime Vachier-Lagarave of France in the ninth and final round of the Young Grandmasters tournament, a part of the 43rd edition of the Biel chess Festival.
