Viswanathan Anand now lies in second place with four points after the seventh round of Mtel Masters international chess tournament.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran suffered a defeat at the hands of Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in the first game of pre-quarterfinals at the chess World Cup.
The other quarter-finalists in the World Chess Cup are Evgeny Bareev, Etinnie Bacrot, Levon Aronian, Michail Gurevich, Ruslan Ponomariov, Sergei Rublevsky and Alexander Grischuk.
Andriy Shevchenko sparkled on his first appearance of the season, helping Ukraine to a 2-1 win over Uzbekistan in a friendly on Wednesday.
Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in the first round of the Corus Chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand opened his campaign at the 20th Ciudad de Leon chess tournament with a comprehensive 3-1 win over Ruslan Ponomariov.
The Indian ace, who is second in the table, took his tally to 3 points after the fourth round of the Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
Paris St Germain suffered their first defeat of the season when they were beaten 2-0 at Stade Rennais on Sunday to drop their first Ligue 1 points of the season.
The former World junior champion defeated former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine 2-0 in the tie-break games of the final.
The Indian Grandmaster was beaten by World champion Ruslan Ponomariov at the Biel chess festival.
The Indian ace beat world champion Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria to maintain his lead at the Mtel Masters International chess tournament.
The Indian ace had to be content with a third place finish while Veselin Topalov won the Mtel Masters Chess title
The Indian ace is placed second behind Peter Leko in the Linares tournament.
Home favourite Veselin Topalov shocked Viswanathan Anand in a brilliant and aggressive display in the sixth round.
The second mini-match game between Ponomariov and Aronian was drawn on Friday.
The former World champion was playing his first game of the finals against Levon Aronian at the World Chess Cup.
He set up his finals clash with Levon Aronian in the World Chess Cup.
The former world champion defeated Evgeny Bareev of Russia in a keenly-contested quarter-final in the World Chess Cup.
Indian GM Sasikiran beat Yannick Pelletier to go to the top after the sixth round in the Biel International chess festival.
GM Alexander Morozevich of Russia, with 3.5 points from first five games, leads after the fifth round of the Grandmaster section in the Biel International Chess Festival.
The Indian ace beat former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov in the sixth round in the Corus chess tournament.
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.
Viswanathan Anand and Ruslan Ponomariov played the third King v King ending in the M-Tel Masters Chess tournament on Friday.
The victory, the Indian ace's first, enabled him move out of the last position in the M-Tel Masters Chess tournament.
The victory, the Indian ace's first, enabled him move out of the last position in the M-Tel Masters Chess tournament.
Vishwanathan Anand drew with Judit Polgar in the fourth round of the Mtel Masters in Sofia.
Viswanathan Anand was held to a third straight draw by Ruslan Ponomariov in the third round of the Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
The Indian ace failed to convert an advantageous position and settled for a draw against the World champion at Linares.
The Indian ace described his opening match in the M-Tel Masters chess tournament as 'one of the best games' he had played against the Bulgarian.
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 Grandmaster posed a serious threat but the top seed held on for a draw and maintained his slender half point lead.
Images from the UEFA Champions League matches played on Wednesday.
The Indian ace drew with Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain in the ninth round at Linares.
Anand and Judit Polgar were the only players to finish unbeaten in the 14-player all-play-all tournament.
The India ace avenged his World championship defeat, winning his seventh round match in the Corus tournament in 34 moves.
World Cup champion Viswanathan Anand started off with a quick 28-move draw against Azerbaijani sensation Grandmaster Teimour Radjabov in the opening round of the 65th Corus Grandmaster Group tournament
The Indian ace won his opening match against Ruslan Ponomariov at Linares in 64 moves.
Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand set to return to FIDE World Cup after 15 years with an aim to seal a berth at the 2018 Candidates tournament.
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