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.
Carlsen continued his dominating run as he took his lead to an almost unassailable five points.
Viswanathan Anand continued to share the lead with three other players after six rounds in the 66th Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand ensured a second place finish after he was held to a draw by Hungarian Judit Polgar at the MTel Masters chess tournament.
Srikar Varadaraj, the lad who held World champion Viswanathan Anand to a draw in the simultaneous chess games at the International Congress of Mathematicians, says he could have won had he played the end-game properly.
The event that was inaugurated by five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand will have 11 rounds before the best player in the under-20 category can be determined in both sections.
'Anybody who has seen a photo of Anand playing will see an Indian flag beside him. And, when he wins, the national anthem is played. What more proof do you need about Anand's nationality?'
The Indian ace shares the third place with Garry Kasparov at Linares.
Magnus Carlsen banged the table while his game against World Champion D Gukesh was still in progress, an act that violated chess conduct rules.
Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the ninth and penultimate round of the Bilbao Grand Slam chess tournament to stay joint fifth. With his seventh draw in nine games Anand, playing with white, took his points tally to seven points in the soccer-like scoring system with just one round to come in the super-category tournament.
The Indian ace plays Judit Polgar next in the Corus chess tournament and desperately needs a victory to sat in the reckoning.
Five-time World champion Viswanthan Anand believes chess has adapted quite well to the coronavirus-forced shutdowns across the globe by simply going online just as he has been doing to stay in touch with family while being stuck in Germany for a couple of months now. Anand had gone to Germany in February to compete for SC Baden OOO in the Bundesliga Chess. However, travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have ensured that he has been unable to return home.
The Indian ace avenged the Chess 960 final defeat by beating the Armenian on the first day in the second game of the World Rapid Championship.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand outclassed Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan 2-0 in the sixth round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess tournament in Nice, France on Saturday.
Fans tuning in to the 2016 World Chess Championship from home may well have the best seats in the house, with the tournament set to be broadcast live in 360-degree Virtual Reality (VR) -- a first in any sport, organisers say.
World champion Viswanathan Anand could do little with his white pieces as he settled for a draw with world number one Magnus Carlsen in the first round of the fourth Bilbao Final Masters, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
World chess champion Viswanathan Anand must have never imagined when he left his home in Madrid last Thursday that he would undergo so much to reach the venue that saw him traverse 2000 kilometres across five countries to reach Sofia for his World Chess Championship match against Veselin Topalov.
World champion Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by arch-rival Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the second round, in Group 'A', in the 73rd Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands. With just one decisive game in the premier group, Anand remains in joint-lead along with Jan Smeets of Holland, Hikaru Nakamura of United States and lone winner of the day Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia, who defeated Wang Hao of China.
Having started off badly, the defending champion may find it difficult to keep sole possession of his crown at the Amber tournament.
P Harikrishna and S S Ganguly lost their games as India went down to defending champions Russia in the Chess Olympiad.
World champion Viswanathan Anand got off to a disappointing start, suffering a rare defeat against Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the first round of the Tal Memorial Chess Tournament in Moscow.
The Indian had mixed luck, losing yet another blindfold game, but then crushed Lev Aronian in the rapid game to extend his lead to a full points in the section after nine rounds.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with Boris Gelfand of Israel in the ninth and final round to finish third in the Alekhine memorial chess tournament in St Petersburg, Russia.
Aruna Anand on her husband's World Championship triumph in Sofia and the build-up to it.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw with Sergey Karjakin of Russia in the fifth and final round to win the Classical section of Zurich Chess Classic on Thursday.
World champion Viswanathan Anand's hunt for an elusive victory continued as he played out a draw with Levon Aronian of Armenia in the third round of Alekhien memorial chess tournament in Paris, on Wednesday.
Viswanathan Anand took sole lead after ten rounds of the Morelia Linares Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand turns 40 today. On the occasion, the chess ace has just one wish -- that the sport be included in the Olympics. Join us in wishing the king of the 64 squares board a very happy birthday and all the best for the coming year.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand came back to sole third spot after defeating Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan 1.5-0.5 in the 10th and penultimate round of 20th and last edition of Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Monaco.
Despite the draw the Indian ace maintained his lead atop Group A in the Sparkassen chess tournament.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand defeated challenger Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria 1.5-0.5 in the first round of the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Monaco.
Viswanathan Anand played out a tense draw against Etienne Bacrot in the sixth round of the Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw with black against local star Anish Giri but slipped to joint second spot after the sixth round of Tata Steel Chess tournament, in Wijk Aan Zee, on Saturday.
Viswanathan Anand defeated Russian Alexander Morozevich to emerge as the joint leader in the Grenkeleasing rapid world championship in Mainz, Germany.
Viswanathan Anand had to be content with second place in the World Blitz Chess Championship after scoring 28 points, three behind the winner, Magnus Carlsen, of Norway.
World champion Viswanathan Anand had to settle for a draw against Alexander Grischuk of Russia in the sixth round of the 'A' group of Tata Steel Chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands.
Chess legend Garry Kasparov believes that reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand has lost motivation and the Indian, who is defending his title against Boris Gelfand right now, has been "sliding downhill" for the past few years.
World champion Viswanathan Anand was unable to breach the solid defenses of Sergey Karjakin of Russia and played out a draw as world No 1 Magnus Carlsen continued on his winning streak in the 75th Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands.
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.
The world champion maintained his slender half-point lead after the sixth round of the Morelia-Linares chess tournament.
