Murali Karthikeyan, Rathnakaran make GM norms

Thirteen-year-old Murali Karthikeyan scored his maiden Grandmaster norm after securing a draw with Commonwealth champion M R Lalith Babu in the ninth and penultimate round of the premier section of......

Half point for Sowmya against top seed Tiviakov

Pune based Woman Grandmaster Sowmya Swaminathan snatched half a point against top seed Grandmaster Sergei Tiviakov of The Netherlands in an exciting third round game in the Apollo Engineering......

India's Rathnakaran, Shyam in lead

India's K Rathnakaran and P Nikhil Shyam, both International Masters, led a strong field of Grand Masters with 5 points each at the end of the fifth round in the 4th Mayor's Cup International Chess......

Ratnakaran scalps Ramesh

IM norm holder K Ratnakaran continued with his giant killing act and defeated Grandmaster R B Ramesh to emerge joint leader after the end of the fifth round in the Pune International Open Chess on......

Harikrishna finishes joint second

Grandmaster Pendyala Harikrishna crashed through the defences of GM Evegeny Gleizerov of Russia in the ninth and final round to finish joint-second in the Masters section of Abu Dhabi Chess......