Viswanathan Anand made another strong comeback, defeating Hikaru Nakamura of the United States in the fourth round of the Zurich Chess Classic on Wednesday.
A list of the Indian medal winners at the 15th Asian Games in Doha.
Latvian-born Spaniard Alexei Shirov earned the right to meet Gata Kamsky of the United States in the final of the chess World Cup following a 1.5-0.5 victory over Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine in the rapid tie-break games of the semi-finals.
Krishnan Sasikiran faces a tie-break in the Chess World Cup after his draw in the second game of his match against Russian Vadim Zvjaginsev.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
Viswanathan Anand kept himself in reckoning for his sixth title on the trot.
The former World Junior champion beat Giovanni Vescovi of Brazil at the World Chess Cup.
Grandmasters K Sasikiran and Koneru Humpy gave India a resounding start on the first day of the 15th Asian Games.
Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by GM Peter Heine Nielsen in the blindfold game of the 9th round at Amber
Kramnik leads the field in the Mtel Masters chess, with Anand, Topalov, Polgar and Adams close behind after two rounds.
The world No. 2 beat Teimour Radjabov by a 5-3 to win his sixth title on the trot in the World Rapid Chess Championship.
The only Indian remaining in the World Cup Chess was beaten in the Round 3 tie-break.
The Indian GM marched his way in to the second round of the World Chess Cup with a sweeping 2-0 win over Yu Shaoteng of China
Viswanathan Anand was on the threshold of victory despite losing the sixth game to Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk of Russia
The Indian ace assured himself of a berth in the semi-finals after beating Sergei Rublevsky in the Sparkassen chess tournament.
Vishwanathan Anand encored his 1997 triumph winning all the three titles 'rapid, blindfold and combined' at stake
While Garry Kasparov stretched his lead to a full point over Topalov in the 9th round of the 22nd Linares super Grandmasters' tournament.
The world rapid champion beat Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the second round of the Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Vadim Milov scored a stunning victory over Viswanathan Anand in the final of the Corsica Masters rapid knockout chess tournament.
After nine rounds in the Corus chess tournament, the Indian ace is in third place.
The title means Anand will be back for the 2006 Chess Classic of Mainz for which the rival will be announced later.
But their medal hopes remain dim after the 13th and penultimate round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
The Indian men succumbed to their first defeat going down 1.5-2.5 to slip to joint sixth spot after the seventh round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly beat Gabriel Sargissen to help the Indian men register a 2.5-1.5 victory over Armenia in the fifth round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Indian men registered a massive 3.5-0.5 win over Costa Rica, while the Indian women beat Cuba 2.5-0.5 in the second round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Indian man scored a victory over unfancied Uruguay in their first round at the Chess Olympiad.
The world champion won the first semifinal of the 18th Magistral Ciudad de Leon chess tournament.
The Indian ace beat Vladmir Kramnik in the rapid games segment, after the two classical \n\ngames in the final were drawn.
The Indian ace drew with Peter Svidler in the penultimate round and took an unassailable lead over his nearest rivals.
The Indian ace is in joint-second place after 11 rounds in the Corus chess tournament.
World rapid champion Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw for the second day on Wednesday with Loek Van Wely in the Corus chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand drew with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the eighth round of the Corus 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.
The world rapid champion was held by 18-year old German Arkadij Naiditsch in the first round of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting.
The World Cup and World Rapid champion beat Miso Cebalo to make the grade in the Corsica Masters.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Monday
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Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand will look to avenge last year's championship defeat and clinch his sixth world title when he takes on Magnus Carlsen in the first game of the World Chess championship in Sochi, on Saturday.
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand made it to the knock-out stage in the London Chess Classic with an easy draw against Andrei Istratescu of France in the fifth round of the preliminaries that concluded at the Olympia.
