The International Master drew with Grandmaster Hua Ni of China to take his tally to 3.5 points in the fifth Asian Chess championship.
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.
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.
The Indian GM beat IM Enamul Hossian of Bangladesh for his second win in the Brtish Open chess.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand came up with a sterling effort to beat German Grandmaster Arkadij Naiditsch in the fifth round of Grenke chess Classic in Baden-Baden, Germany.
Victory continues to elude grandmaster Koneru Humpy who had to settle for her fourth draw out of five games against defending champion Yifan Hou of China at the half way stage of the Women's World Chess Championship, in Tirana, Albania.
Anand has been trying to play very complicated positions and the sixth round was no different.
Koneru Humpy lost in the semi-final tiebreaker against Ekaterina Kovalevskaya of Russia in the Women's World Chess Championship.
The Indian GM beat Woman Grandmaster Xu Yuhua of China in the second game of the quarter-finals of the Women's World Chess championship.
The day produced four decisive games and it was again the youngsters who provided most of the entertainment.
The Chennai-based player will get his final norm on Thursday when he plays GM Jonathan Rowson, irrespective of the result.
Grandmaster D Harika bowed out of the world championship after playing a draw in must-win second game with former Bulgarian world champion Antoaneta Stefanova in the semifinals, which she lost 0.5-1.5 in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia.
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy, the highest rated player in the fray, crashed out of the World Women's Chess Championship after failing to capitalize on her chances against Natalia Zhukova of Ukraine in the second game of the second round that concluded in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, on Thursday.
The top seeded Indian GM easily beat Ekaterina Ubiennykh of Russia in the 11th round and joined Zhao Xue of China and Nadezhda Kosintseva at the top in the World juniors girls' chess championship.
The world's 14 top-ranked players are taking part in the tournament.
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi chalked out an easy victory over fellow Indian Abhijeet Kunte to maintain a clean slate after the second round of the Asian Individual Chess Championship in Mashhad, Iran.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw with Grandmaster Peter Leko of Hungary to remain second after the ninth round of the Tata Steel Chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw with Grandmaster Peter Leko of Hungary in the ninth round of Tata Steel Chess tournament, in Wijk Aan Zee on Tuesday.
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.
The two chess giants agreed to split the point after only 16 moves at Linares.
The top seeded GM leads the field in the National 'B' chess championship.
Grandmaster D Harika's title aspirations suffered a major blow as she lost to Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria in the first game of the semi-final at World Women's chess championship in Khanty, Mansiysk, Russia. Despite displaying top form so far, Harika could not get things moving well in the first game and went down rather easily.
