The Indian ace beat Armenia's Levon Aronian in the final.
The victory enabled the Indian ace stay in joint lead after the blindfold game in the 10th and penultimate round of Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament.
The Indian ace regained joint lead in the combined standings after beating Peter Leko of Hungary
In a repeat of last year's final, Viswanathan Anand will take on Veselin Topalov in the Title match of the Magistral Ciudad de Leon Chess Tournament after the Bulgarian Grandmaster defeated Rustam Kasimdzhanov in the semi-finals in Leon, Spain.
The Indian ace now trails Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan 1.5-0.5 after the second game of the Rapid World Championship.
The draws kept Anand in shared top place in Rapid, but he continued to languish in blindfold and therefore was in the middle of the pack in Combined standings.
He closed the gap between him and the leaders with a comprehensive 2-0 win over the Dutchman in the fifth round of the Melody Amber Blindfold and rapid chess tournament.
They traded one win each in the third round of the Melody Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
Penguin Books India will publish the World Rapid champion's autobiography and a book on how to play chess.
The Asian Games gold medallist has now set her eyes on winning the world championship, which she said, will be her biggest challenge.
The 19-year-old Indian Grandmaster earned India its first gold at the Asian Games, winning the women's rapid tournament.
The Indian GM is now only 0.5 points behind the combined leader Alexander Morozevich at Amber chess
The Indian ace shares the lead with Alexander Morozevich after four rounds in the Amber chess tournament.
The World Cup champion drew with Alexander Grischuk and Alexei Shirov in his first two matches in the in World Rapid Chess Championship.
The Russian beat Bulgaria's Vaselin Topalov via the tie-breaker in the re-unification match.
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy beat Ekaterina Kovalevskaya of Russia in the second game to push the match into tie-breaker.
India's newest World champion Koneru Humpy says it was a dream to win a World title but the triumph in the blitz format surprised even herself as she was always a contender in the classical format. Humpy capped the 2019 in a stunning fashion since she made a comeback to the sport this year after starting a family.
The defeat saw the Indian ace surrender the joint lead in the Amber Chess tournament.
The Indian ace beat Veselin Topalov 2.5-1.5 in the final to successfully defend the 19th Magistral Ciudad de Leon title.
The Indian ace leads Alexander Grischuk 3.5-0.5 and now requires just one point out of four for his fifth straight title at Mainz.
The Indian ace beat Vassily Ivanchuk in the blindfold game but drew the rapid, in the Amber tournament.
The Indian GM lost to Alexander Grischuk of Russia in the fifth round of 15th Amber chess
The Indian GM beat Francisco Vallejo Pons to keep joint lead in rapid chess event of the Amber tournament
The Indian ace's victory came after a shocking loss to Alexander Morozevich in the opening round of the Amber tournament.
The Indian started his campaign with a fighting draw in the first round of the World Rapid Chess Championship.
The Indian ace won one and drew one game against arch-rival Vladimir Kramnik in the fourth round, and carried his total to 7.5 points from a maximum possible of eight.
The Indian ace beat the Latvian-born Spaniard in the first round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
The defending champion, however, continued to lead the standings in the rapid section of the Amber Rapid and Blindfold chess tournament.
The Indian ace easily beat Ljubomir Ljubojevic in the fifth round in the Amber tournament.
Anand did not quite re-work his energy and lost to Carlsen in the first game of the third day and then made a draw with compatriot Vidit Gujrathi.
World Cup champion Anand outplayed Russian champion Peter Svidler in the blitz tie-break to make the summit clash in the World Rapid Chess Championship.
The other semi-final in the World Rapid Chess championship will be between Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Grischuk.
Tne Indian ace beat World champion Ruslan Ponomariov while Kramnik accounted for Judit Polgar in the quarter-finals of the World Rapid Chess Championship.
The Indian ace beat former World champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia in the seventh round to make the grade in the World Rapid Chess tournament.\n\n
The World Rapid champion crushed Anatoly Karpov to take an unassailable two-point lead after the eighth round in the tournament.
The Indian ace has a three-point lead over his nearest rivals after beating Loek Van Wely in the ninth round.
Viswanathan Anand won the eighth round mini-match 1.5-0.5 in the 14th Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand cruised past Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine with a fine performance in the rapid game in the 14th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament.
The Indian ace beat Francisco Pons Vallejo in the blindfold game of the third round of the 14th Amber chess tournament.
The Indian Super GM remained the sole\nleader with an absolute score of 4/4.
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