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's top-rated players drew with Corus champion Peter Leko of Hungary in the eighth round of the Linares Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
With seven rounds left at Linares, the Indian ace will have to tackle his black pieces well and score at least two victories with white.
The world rapid champion beat Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the second round of the Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
The Indian ace shares the third place with Garry Kasparov at Linares.
The Indian ace beat Peter Svidler in the second round of the Sparkassen Dortmund Super Grandmasters chess championships.
With seven rounds still to come in the first super tournament of the year, Anish Guru maintained his sole lead on 4.5 points out of a possible six and he is now trailed by Iranian turned Frenchman Firouza Alireza who is on 4 points.
The Indian Grandmaster slipped to third place while Kasparov assured himself of at least joint-first in the Linares tournament.
The victory put the Indian ace in second place, behind Garry Kasparov, in the Linares chess tournament.
The Indian ace remains in second spot in the Linares Super Grandmasters' tournament, behind Garry Kasparov.
Viswanathan Anand went for an all out kill but had to settle for a draw as his efforts were thwarted by some brilliant defensive tactics by Garry Kasparov at Linares.
Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Framcisco Pons Vallejo in the fifth round of the 22nd Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
The 17-year-old Gukesh is in joint lead with Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi.
With two more rounds remaining, both Anand and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia have amassed six points from their ten games.
The Indian ace runs into 15-year-old Teimour Radjabov, who had shocked Gary Kasparov, next in the Linares tournament.
The Indian ace won his opening match against Ruslan Ponomariov at Linares in 64 moves.
The super Grandmaster said the chess scenario has grown rapidly in the last 10 years, thanks to computers.
The Indian ace says he wants to learn more about his game and experiment with new openings.
Anand's loss almost put him out of the race for first place as Leko replaced him as the joint leader alongwith Vladimir Kramnik.
Shami was there to receive the honours. He took 24 wickets in seven World Cup games last year.
Young Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh finished fifth while his illustrious compatriot Viswanathan Anand could only manage a tied seventh place in the third leg of the 2023 SuperUnited Rapid and Blitz chess tournament.
Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh scored a crushing victory over Alexander Donchenko in the 10th round of Tata Steel Masters in Wijk Aan Zee, Netherlands on Thursday.
For a long time, Viswanathan Anand was the lone flag-bearer of Indian chess, taking the world by storm with his exploits.
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R Praggnanandhaa's ability to defend seamlessly in pressure situations and the deductive mind to quickly gauge his opponent's weakness is the hallmark of a world class player, national coach GM M Shyam Sundar said on Tuesday.
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Lesser-known Indian players continued to impress, while the fancied struggled to score, even as overseas Grandmasters took charge in the third round of the World Junior Chess Championships, being played at Hotel Hyatt, in Pune, on Wednesday. S L Narayanan was one of the early finishers, holding second seed and super GM Robin Van Kampen (2641) to a draw, while 10-year-old Nihal Sarin's impressive display again won him many admirers after he held Balazs CSonka (2409) to a draw to remain unbeaten after three encounters against opponents rated higher than 2400.
Young Indian Grandmaster Vaishali Rameshbabu on Thursday beat International Master Munkhzul Turmunkh of Mongolia to storm into the semi-finals of the first leg of FIDE chess.com Women Speed Chess Championships but the country's top player Koneru Humpy bowed out in the opener.
Vaishali fell behind early and could not catch up against Gunina, who had finished runner-up in the first leg.
Young Indian Grandmaster Vaishali Rameshbabu's fine run in the first leg of FIDE chess.com Women Speed Chess Championships ended on Friday with a defeat in the semi-finals at the hands of Anna Ushenina of Ukraine. The 19-year-old Chennai player went down 4.5-5.5 to the experienced Ukrainian GM in an exciting last four clash of the online tournament.
Vaishali came back from 2-4 down to oust the experienced Ukrainian by winning the last two bullet games.
Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand played out a draw againt Peter Svidler of Russia in the eighth round of Tata Steel Masters underway, in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands, on Sunday.
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Padmini Rout is well-placed along with four foreigners atop of the points' table after seven rounds in the LIC World Junior Chess Championships, being played at Hotel Hyatt, in Pune. With six rounds left in the tough 13-round Swiss league event, the players in both sections are tightly bunched, making the hunt for the title quite open.
Both Anand and Sethuraman inched themselves up to five points out of a possible seven and shared the joint eighth spot after a rather dull day that witnessed several draws on the top tables.
Grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly outwitted higher-rated compatriot Abhijeet Gupta to maintain a clean slate after the end of the second round in the Fujairah International Chess tournament, in Fujairah (UAE), on Thursday.
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In a tragic end to the Sao Paulo leg of the 4th final Masters tournament, Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine was robbed at gun point and lost his luggage and valuable belongings enroute to the airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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