World champion Viswanathan Anand beat Norwegian Magnus Carlsen in the third round to occupy sole second place in the Morelia-Linares chess tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a rare setback with white pieces and lost to Levon Aronian of Armenia in the second round of the Morelia-Linares chess tournament in Morelia (Mexico).
FIDE corrected the ranking error to crown the Indian ace as the top ranked player in the world.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw with Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine to maintain a half point lead after the penultimate round in the Morelia-Linares chess tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand drew with nearest rival Magnus Carlsen of Norway to maintain his slender lead at the end of the 10th round of the Morelia-Linares tournament. The Indian ace took his tally to 6.5 points, and is placed half-a-point ahead of the Norwegian teenager.
Viswanathan Anand drew with Vassily Ivanchuk to maintain sole lead after the end of the Morelia stint of the Morelia-Linares chess.
World champion Viswanathan Anand coasted to his third victory with black and jumped into sole lead after defeating Peter Leko of Hungary in the fifth round of the Morelia-Linares Chess tournament, in Morelia, Mexico, on Thursday.
World No 1 Viswanathan Anand won the World Chess Championship after a quick draw against Hungarian Peter Leko in the 14th and final round.
Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Alexander Morozevich in the 11th round of Morelia-Linares chess.
Viswanathan Anand took sole lead after ten rounds of the Morelia Linares Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
He played out a fighting draw with Peter Svidler to remain in joint lead along with Magnus Carlsen.
The Indian closed the first half of the Morelia Linares chess on a winning note with a thumping win over Peter Leko in the seventh round.
The victory put the Indian in sole lead at the end of the fourth round in the Morelia-Linares chess tournament.
The Indian ace was held for the second successive day in the Morelia/Linares Super Grandmasters' chess tournament.
Magnus Carlsen of Norway stole day one honours in the Morelia-Linares chess tournament after putting it across Alexander Morozevich of Russia to emerge early sole leader
Anand became the world number one for the first time in his career by virtue of winning the Morelia-Linares classical chess tournament.
Let's all join in and congratulate the new king of the 64 squares board.
The Indian chess ace won the Morelia-Linares title and will thus attain top ranking in April.
The Indian ace is now placed second with Kasparov and Leko, behind Kramnik, at Linares.
The Indian ace is placed second behind Peter Leko in the Linares tournament.
Russia's Garry Kasparov took a decisive step for his ninth title at Linares after crushing Britain's Michael Adams.
Garry Kasparov extended his lead over nearest rivals Anand and Topalov to two point at Linares.
The world's top-rated players drew with Corus champion Peter Leko of Hungary in the eighth round of the Linares Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
With seven rounds left at Linares, the Indian ace will have to tackle his black pieces well and score at least two victories with white.
Viswanathan Anand and Peter Leko, ended their third round clash in just 24 moves in the Linares 2005 Super GM Chess Tournament.
The Indian ace failed to convert an advantageous position and settled for a draw against the World champion at Linares.
The victory gave the Indian ace the joint lead with Vladimir Kramnik in the Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Anand drew with Spaniard Francisco Pons while Kasparov lost to Teimous Radjabov of Azerbaijan in the Linares chess tournament.
The Indian Grandmaster slipped to third place while Kasparov assured himself of at least joint-first in the Linares tournament.
The victory put the Indian ace in second place, behind Garry Kasparov, in the Linares chess tournament.
The Indian ace remains in second spot in the Linares Super Grandmasters' tournament, behind Garry Kasparov.
He conceded an easy half point to GM Arkadi Naiditsch of Germany in the penultimate round.
The Indian ace shares the third place with Garry Kasparov at Linares.
The Indian ace drew with Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain in the ninth round at Linares.
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The Indian grandmaster maintained his slender lead in the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament with a clinical 1.5-0.5\n\nvictory over Zoltan Almasi.
The India ace drew with Alexander Morozevich, winning the rapid tie but losing the blindfold, in the Amber tournament.
The Indian ace runs into 15-year-old Teimour Radjabov, who had shocked Gary Kasparov, next in the Linares tournament.
The two chess giants agreed to split the point after only 16 moves at Linares.
The Indian ace won his opening match against Ruslan Ponomariov at Linares in 64 moves.
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