Vishwanathan Anand outplayed Peter Leko in the fifth round to take sole lead at the Corus Grandmasters tournament
The Indian ace beat former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov in the sixth round in the Corus chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand held an advantage but could not convert it into a win as he played a draw with Peter Leko in the fifth round of the World Chess Championships.
He conceded an easy half point to GM Arkadi Naiditsch of Germany in the penultimate round.
The Indian ace drew his sixth round games with Vladimir Kramnik in the Amber chess championship.
The Indian ace shares the third place with Garry Kasparov at Linares.
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand struggled for the second day running as he was held to a draw by almost-retired Robert Hess of the United States in the second round of Isle of Man International Chess tournament.
Having started off badly, the defending champion may find it difficult to keep sole possession of his crown at the Amber tournament.
The defending champion demolished Paco Vallejo for a perfect 2-0 score in the third round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
The Indian ace drew with Peter Svidler in the penultimate round and took an unassailable lead over his nearest rivals.
Viswanathan Anand won the eighth round mini-match 1.5-0.5 in the 14th Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
In the final round Anand only needs to draw to retain the Corus Grandmasters Chess title.
With five players tied at the top after five rounds, Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand face a tough challenge to annex the Corus chess title.
The defending champion played out a 23-move draw with GM Peter Leko of Hungary in the Corus Grandmasters Chess Tournament.
Viswanathan Anand put it across Michael Adams to move within striking distance of tournament leader Peter Leko.
The Indian ace is in joint-second place after 11 rounds in the Corus chess tournament.
After a fine comeback, much can be expected from Viswanathan Anand when he takes on his remaining rivals.
The Indian ace registered his third win on the trot to join the lead group at the end of the seventh round of the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament.
The 16-year-old GM from Azerbaijan is the first player to beat both Kasparov and Anand with black pieces in the same year.
The Indian GM played a hard-fought 57-move draw with defending champion Peter Leko at the Dortmund chess tournament.
The Indian Grandmaster starts a huge favourite against Peter Leko in the semi-final of the Dortmund Sparkassen chess tournament.
The Indian ace drew with Peter Svidler to top Group A at the Sparkassen chess tournament in Dortmund.
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 victory placed the Indian ace in joint second position in the Amber chess tournament.
The India ace drew with Alexander Morozevich, winning the rapid tie but losing the blindfold, in the Amber 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.
Defending champion Viswanathan Anand drew both his games with Evgeny Bareev to keep the lead in the Amber Blind and Rapid chess tournament.
The defending champion scored 1.5 points out of two against Loek Van Wely and joined Vladimir Kramnik and Peter Leko on top of the standings.
The Indian ace drew his last round game against Ivan Sokolov to ensure that he retained the Corus Grandmasters chess title.
The Indian GM demolished Jan Timman in the 11th round of the Corus Chess tournament.
Anand has not lost his last 59 games played in the Category 19 event.
The Indian ace held Frenchman Joel Lautier in the fifth round of the World Rapid Chess Championship.
He now has only one point from two draws. Moldovan Viktor Bologan leads the table with a fantastic score of 3.5 points.
Anand's loss almost put him out of the race for first place as Leko replaced him as the joint leader alongwith Vladimir Kramnik.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand squandered away a good start and could just end Day 1 on a fifty percent score after the end of the fifth round of World rapid chess championship in Berlin.
Indian Grandmaster S P Sethuraman crashed out of the World Cup of chess after a draw with Azerbaijani superstar Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the second game of the third round in Baku.
High-flying with his superman-cap, overnight joint leader Grandmaster Gupta ran out of steam and surrendered to Nakamura on a day when B Adhiban also did well to hold Levon Aronian of Armenia to a creditable draw.
Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand named Grzegorz Gazewski of Poland as the lone new inclusion in his team, putting to end speculations that he had made big changes for the World Chess Championship match against Magnus Carlsen, starting in Sochi on Saturday.
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