The Indian ace scored a resounding victory over Alexei Shirov in the blindfold game at the Amber chess tournament.
The Indian ace won the rapid competition, but finished third overall in the Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
The defending champion beat Vassily Ivanchuk 2-0 to take second place in the combined standings with 12 points in the Amber Blind and Rapid chess tournament.
The Indian ace lost both his games to Alexander Morozevich in the seventh round and then drew with Peter Leko in the eighth round in the Amber Blind and Rapid chess 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 world rapid champion will start his campaign against Russian Peter Svidler in the 13th edition of Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
The Indian ace drew his sixth round games with Vladimir Kramnik in the Amber chess championship.
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 maintains a slender lead going into the final round in the Amber chess tournament.
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 Indian GM moved to joint second position in the Amber chess tournament.
The ace Indian Grandmaster hopes 'to wipe the slate clean in 2004'.
The Indian ace held Frenchman Joel Lautier in the fifth round of the World Rapid Chess Championship.
The victory gave the Indian ace the sole lead in the Amber chess tournament.
Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest player ever, returns to competitive chess after 12 years.
After the first game against the same opponent ended in a draw, Harika was with black pieces in the second and she employed a French defence and Kosteniuk did not have many answers.
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a disappointing final round loss against Sergey Karjakin of Russia to finish joint eighth in the St Louis Rapid Chess tournament in St Louis, on Thursday.
Chess ace Viswanathan Anand termed losing just one game at the World Blitz Championship in Riyadh as a huge achievement after capturing the title at the World Rapid event.
India's Pentala Harikrishna secured two wins on the last day but could only finish second, half a point behind Japanese-American wizard Hikaru Nakamura who lived up to his top billing to clinch the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid tournament, in Kolkata, on Sunday.
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Indian chess great Viswanathan Anand sees signs of greatness in Nihal Sarin but says it's a long journey ahead for the impressive 14-year-old since there has been a trend of players struggling to replicate success as they age.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand struggled with his form for the second consecutive day as he suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura of United States in the second round of Zurich Chess Challenge.
"The crucial moment was the win against Magnus Carlsen, because he had come back after a defeat against Bu Xiangzhi. He seemed to be in great form, as always.
'I like to challenge myself. Competing against players much younger than me is something that I want to keep doing,' says Chess Legend Viswanathan Anand
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday.
Indian chess ace Viswanathan Anand will find himself in the unfamiliar position of starting as the lowest-ranked player when he takes on a tough field in his first Classical tournament since losing the world title, in the Zurich Challenge in Zurich at the Savoy.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand opened his account after signing peace with Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the third round of Zurich chess challenge now underway in Zurich at the Savoy.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Monday
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