World's second youngest Grandmaster ever Parimarjan Negi played out a draw with Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son of Vietnam in the fifth round of the Young Grandmasters tournament, apart of the 43rd Biel chess festival in Biel.
Harika lost 1-0 to China's Hou Yifan
Budding Indian masters, Srinath N and Omkar Sanjay Davate shared the top spot in the Under-10 boys' category in the Asian Youth championships.
She lost her opening round in the Under-14 girls' event in the Asian Youth chess championship.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand squandered away a good start and could just end Day 1 on a fifty percent score after the end of the fifth round of World rapid chess championship in Berlin.
Woman Grandmaster Bhakti Kulkarni and Grandmaster S P Sethuraman made history, winning the gold medal in the Asian Continental Women's and Open chess championship that concluded in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Friday.
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