The Indian GM beat Curt Hansen of Denmark in the fourth round to top the tables.
K Sasikiran registered his third consecutive win to join R R Laxman at the top after the sixth round.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran defeated Commonwealth champion and former World championship finalist Nigel Short of England in the fifth round of the 'B' group in the Corus International chess tournament, in Wijk Aan Zee (The Netherlands), on Thursday.
The victory gave the Indian GM the joint lead in the North Sea Cup chess tournament.
Nisha Mohota and R Aarthie share top position in the women's section in the National chess championship.
The Indian placed fifth after drawing his 10th and final round game in the Bosna 2006 Grandmasters' tournament.
The Indian Grandmaster lost to Russian Grandmaster Sergei Rublevsky in the fifth round of the Aerosvit International Chess tournament.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran celebrated his birthday in style beating R R Laxman to take sole lead after seven rounds.
Grandmaster K Sasikiran was held to a draw by unheralded Vietnamese Nguyen Huynh Minh Huy while P Harikrishna also split points with Yu Ruiyuan of China in the fourth round of the Asian Continental chess championship in Subic Bay, Phillipines.
The second-highest rated Indian after Viswanathan Anand beat Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan to win the Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament.
Indian players had a disappointing outing at the Corus chess championship with Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran and D Harika settling for draws while Abhijeet Gupta went down to slip to the third spot.
The Indian Grandmaster posed a serious threat but the top seed held on for a draw and maintained his slender half point lead.
With two rounds left the Indian GM is level with GM Luke McShane of England in the North Sea Cup.
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania and World champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan lead the field in the category-16 Super Grandmasters Pune chess festival.
The victory improved the Indian's chances of a decent finish in the Aeroflot International Open chess tournament.
GM Krishnan Sasikiran scored a much-awaited victory against GM Tomasz Markowski of Poland in the fourth round.
GM Valerij Filippov maintained his half point lead after the eighth and penultimate round of the Aeroflot International Open Chess tournament.
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 Grandmaster split the point with the Romanian GM to maintain a half point lead after the penultimate round in the third Mtel Masters.
The Indian Grandmaster shared the second place in the Mtel chess tournament with Gata Kamsky, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu.
Playing with black pieces, Indian Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran had to settle for a draw against his higly-rated English compatriot Michael Adams in the opening match of the M-Tel Masters 2007 in Sofia.
The two Grandmasters have 3.5 points each after four rounds in the National 'A' men's chess championship.
The top seed drew his 11th round match against third seeded Ajbhijit Kunte in the men's National A chess championship.
S Vijayalakshmi, Nisha Mohta and R Aarthie share the lead in the women's section in the National A chess championship.
Vidit Gujrathi was around six when he was advised to put his ambition of playing cricket on hold till he was older by a local club.
The Indian Grandmaster lost to Alexei Shirov in the seventh round of the Aerosvit International Grandmasters Chess tournament.
The Indian GM went down to Kazakh GM Darmen Sadvakasov in the fifth round of the Aeroflot Chess tournament.
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.
The Indian GM beat Bulgaria's Sergei Zigalko in a blitz game to become the only Indian to enter the second round of the Chess World Cup.
The Indian ace played it save and drew with former European champion Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu in the third Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
The Indian Grandmaster was beaten by World champion Ruslan Ponomariov at the Biel chess festival.
Hungarian Zoltan Almasi won the Marx Gyrogy memorial tournament, while Viktor Korchnoi finished second.
The Indian GM's flag fell in a rook versus Bishop endgame after 100 moves against top seed Emil Sutovsky
The Indian GM could only salvage a draw with Jonny Hector of in the sixth round of the Sigeman & Co. chess tournament
National champion Surya Shekhar Ganguly and GM Dibyendu Barua also bowed out of the World Chess Championship.
Former national champion Dibyendu Barua suffered his second defeat in the Parsvnath International Open chess tournament.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran was held to a draw by Zoltan Almasi of Hungary in the third round.
Top seed Alexander Morozevich of Russia made sure of retaining the title with a round to spare in the Biel chess festival.
The Indian GM took off with a lucky victory over Vitaly Tseshkovsky in the opening round of the Aeroflot International open.
The defeat saw the joint-leader slip to joint 10th after the sixth round in the Gibtele.Com chess festival in Gibraltar.
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