Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi failed to break the defenses of Ziska Helgi Dam and had to agree for a draw and settle for 12th place in the Hogehschool Zeeland International Chess tournament.
Parimarjan Negi went down to second seed Grandmaster Michal Krasenkow in the eighth round and bowed out of the championship race in the Hogeschool Zeeland International chess tournament.
The Indian GM was beaten by Grandmaster Alexander Morozevich on time in the World Rapid Cup chess tournament.
The former World junior champion won the Marx Gyorgy international chess tournament after settling for an easy draw with GM Ferenc Berkes in the 10th and final round game.
Abhijeet Gupta's silver medal ended a long drought for Indians in the Open section of the Chess Olympiad. After a gap of 22 years -- the last one being Dibyendu Barua's gold medal on board two in Novisad 1990 -- an Indian won a medal for individual performance.
The Indian chess ace beat young Magnus Carlsen in the third round of the Linares-Morelia Super Grandmasters tournament.
The young Grandmaster scored a record nine points out of a possible 11 in the tournament.
P Harikrishna went down fighting against Alexander Grischuk in the fourth round of Aerosvit chess
The Indian ace beat Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine in just 37 moves at the Corus Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
With his third victory in the event, Anand came back within striking distance of the leaders. His tally of six points out of ten is only one point less than Holland's Anish Giri, Norway's Magnus Carlsen and Azerbaijan's Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, all who have seven points apiece.
Playing black, Ponomariov beat Loek Van Wely, while, with white, Grischuk got the better of American Gata Kamsky at the World Chess Cup.
Abhijeet Gupta scored a thumping victory over Woman Grandmaster Aarthie Ramaswamy at the Dubai Chess Open
GM Tania Sachdev emerged amongst 10-leaders with a finely crafted victory over Atousa Pourkashiyan of Iran
Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand continued to struggle with his form as he lost to 16-year old International Master Benjamin Gledura of Hungary in the seventh round of the Masters section of Gibraltar International Chess festival
The Indian GM is now only 0.5 points behind the combined leader Alexander Morozevich at Amber chess
Surya Shekhar Ganguly failed to finish among the prizes by a whisker, going down to Vladimir Akopian in the final round of Gibtele.com Masters chess tournament.
The 12-year-old Indian ace held Grandmaster Milos Pavlovic of Serbia to a draw in the fifth round of the Hastings International Chess Congress.
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.
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.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday
Israeli Grandmaster Boris Gelfand beat Russian Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk in the first game of the quarter-finals in the World Chess Cup.
The only Indian remaining in the World Cup Chess was beaten in the Round 3 tie-break.
The Indian Woman Grandmaster is joint-fifth after the seventh round in the World Junior girls' chess championship.
The Indian ace gained 11 points to breach the landmark but missed the top rank by just one point.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Monday
After drawing with Wang Yue of China, India's world junior champ beat Tigran Petrosian of Armenia to keep the lead in the Sanjin Hotel Cup Grandmasters tournament.
India's Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna dished out a stellar performance to beat world No. 4 Levon Aronian of Armenia in the sixth round to climb to top of the leaderboard at the Geneva FIDE Grand Prix chess tournament.
Grandmaster and Asian champion Parimarjan Negi will meet Polish GM Bartosz Socko in the sixth round of the Leiden International chess tournament.
The 18-year-old Indian drew with top seeded Grandmaster Ferenc Berkes of Hungary in the final round to emerge champion.
The International Master drew with Grandmaster Hua Ni of China to take his tally to 3.5 points in the fifth Asian Chess championship.
GM Abhijit Kunte suffered a defeat at the hands of Zhang Zhong at Dubai International Chess championship.
The two meet in the Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament that gets underway later on Wednesday.
The Indian GM trails the Russian by a point in the eight-round Hotel Ilapuram Grandmaster chess tournament.
P Harikrishna went down fighting against top seed Alexander Motylev at the Sanjin Hotel Cup Grandmasters chess tournament
The Indian GM was the only player to go undefeated in the event that featured the cream of women's chess.
GMs S S Ganguly and Harikrishna finished eighth and ninth respectively.
The Indian Grandmaster played a draw against highly regarded Ukranian in the first game of the second round in the World Chess Championship.\n\n
The two players are leading the table with four points each after four rounds of the World Junior Chess championship.
: They joined three others in the lead in the Parsvnath International chess tournament.
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy settled for a draw in the must-win eighth-round game as defending champion Yifan Hou became the women's world champion by triumphing 5.5-2.5 against the Indian in Tirana, Albania.
