Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw with black against local star Anish Giri but slipped to joint second spot after the sixth round of Tata Steel Chess tournament, in Wijk Aan Zee, on Saturday.
The Indian chess ace beat young Magnus Carlsen in the third round of the Linares-Morelia Super Grandmasters tournament.
Grandmaster Vladimir Epishin emerged sole leader in the Hastings chess tournament.
Reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway steered clear of the field with another dominating victory over Jan Krzysztof Duda Poland.
Sundararajan Kidambi took a giant stride towards his second GM norm by stunning the Armenian Grandmaster in the fourth round of the Dubai Chess Championship.
Arjun Bhati has managed to raise 4.30 lakh to fight the COVID-19 pandemic by selling all his trophies, including three world junior golf championship titles and a national championship. Meanwhile, chess players in the country, including the likes of Grandmaster P Harikrishna, are doing their bit in the fight against the Covid-19 by raising more than Rs 3 lakh as their contribution.
India's Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna put up a spirited fight against top seeded Dutch Grandmaster Anish Giri but couldn't avert his first defeat in the Shenzhen Longgang Chess Grand Master tournament in Shenzhen, China on Saturday.
The Indian Grandmaster won the 18-player tournament by a two-point margin over nearest rival Levon Aronian of Armenia.
World's second youngest Grandmaster ever Parimarjan Negi played out a draw with Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son of Vietnam in the fifth round of the Young Grandmasters tournament, apart of the 43rd Biel chess festival in Biel.
Parimarjan Negi slipped to the bottom of the points table after going down to second seed Evgeny Tomashevsky in a hard-fought second-round contest of the Young Grandmasters tournament in the 43rd Biel Chess Festival in Biel, Switzerland.
After a rather indifferent show in the opening round, Grandmaster P Harikrishna bounced back in style defeating local star Michele Godena in the second round of the 50th edition of Reggio Emilia International Chess tournament on Monday.
GM Smirnov Pavel tallied 7.5 points out of a possible 9, the same as Short, but won the overall title on better progressive scores.
Vaishali, sister of the Indian chess prodigy and GM R Praggnanandhaa, scored impressive victories over Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine) and Russia's Valentina Gunina on the opening day of the Blitz championship.
The former world junior champion beat defending champion Zoltan Almasi of Hungary in the eighth round of the Marx Gyorgy International Chess tournament.
'I like to challenge myself. Competing against players much younger than me is something that I want to keep doing,' says Chess Legend Viswanathan Anand
Playing black, Ponomariov beat Loek Van Wely, while, with white, Grischuk got the better of American Gata Kamsky at the World Chess Cup.
The Indian ace was stunned by Russian Grandmaster Alexander Morozevich in the seventh round of the World Chess Championships.
The woman Grandmaster achieved the norm after splitting points with Dinesh Kumar Sharma in the ninth round of the Parsvanath International Chess Championship.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly joined GM Nigel Short of England at the top of the table after the penultimate round in the Gibetelecom Masters International Open chess tournament.
With his third draw in five games, the reigning world rapid champion remained in joint lead on 3.5 points and now shares the lead with Anish Giri of Holland and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan.
The Indian GM beat Maxim Sorokin in the first round of the eight-match Ilapuram Grandmasters Chess tourney.
The Indian Grandmaster beat GM Safin Shukhrat of Uzbekistan in the third round of the Masters' section in the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival.
The Indian ace gained 11 points to breach the landmark but missed the top rank by just one point.
The draw took both Eesha Karavade and Koneru Humpy to 3.5 points out of a possible five in the Dubai International Chess championship.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
The Indian GM needs just a draw in the final round to at least tie for first place in the British chess championship.
Krishnan Sasikiran, P Harikrishna and Surya Shekhar Ganguly won their fourth round games to remain in joint second position at the Dubai International Chess Championship.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
Krishnan Sasikiran, P Harikrishna and Surya Shekhar Ganguly won their second round ties to lead the fray along with 21 others in the Dubai International Chess championship.
"I practice chess based on what I think is a priority, and what I feel like doing. I also read some chess books -- 'Saying No to Chess Principles' by Evgeny Bareev and 'Life and Games of Mikhail Tal"
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand's bad form continued as he finished 22nd in the World Blitz Chess championship, which concluded in Berlin on Thursday.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran played out an easy draw with Polish GM Bartlomiej Macieja in the first game of the third round of the Chess World Cup
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
Chess player Soumya Swaminathan has been left a bit shaken by the storm triggered by her pullout from a tournament in Iran over the issue of compulsory headscarf but remains firm in her belief that religious diktats should not extend beyond places of worship.
Avinash Sable's national mark headlines strong showing in IGP 2
Padmini Rout is well-placed along with four foreigners atop of the points' table after seven rounds in the LIC World Junior Chess Championships, being played at Hotel Hyatt, in Pune. With six rounds left in the tough 13-round Swiss league event, the players in both sections are tightly bunched, making the hunt for the title quite open.
