World champion Viswanathan Anand took a quick draw and continued to trail after five rounds of the 70th Corus Grandmasters chess tournament, even as women's world No 2 Koneru Humpy also remained winless after five rounds.
World champion Viswanathan Anand fought back from an inferior position to beat Erwin L'Ami of Holland to be joint second at the 75th Tata Steel chess tournament with one round to spare at the De Moriaan in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands.
The victory came for the Indian maestro after three straight draws in rounds 10, 11 and 12
The India ace drew with Alexander Morozevich, winning the rapid tie but losing the blindfold, in the Amber tournament.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a double blow before recovering some lost ground in the third round in the Grenkeleasing World Rapid Chess Championship that got underway in Mainz (Germany) as the main event of the Mainz Classics.
World champion Viswanathan Anand won the blindfold but lost the rapid game against Magnus Carlsen of Norway to remain in sole second after the end of the seventh round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess tournament in France.
The draw against the Israeli Grandmaster took the Indian men's team's tally to 28 points at the Chess Olympiad.
Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand defeated reigning World champion Magnus Carlsen to jump to the joint third spot after the end of the fourth round of Norway Chess tournament, in Stavanger.
World champion Viswanathan Anand beat Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the blindfold game but lost the rapid one as the mini-match ended 1-1, in the ninth round of Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Monaco.
He routed Teimour Radjabov 2-0 in the second round of the Melody Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand put aside the experts' claim that the challenger will make a comeback at the half way stage, and played out another draw to maintain his full point lead over Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the sixth game of the World Chess Championship 2010 now underway in Sofia on Saturday.
Viswanathan Anand inched closer to the World Chess Championship title after playing out a draw in the seventh game against Vladimir Kramnik of Russia at the Art and exhibition hall in Bonn on Thursday.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a hard-fought draw with Grandmaster Lenier Dominguez of Cuba in the third round of the 22nd Ciudad de Leon chess tournament in Linares on Sunday. Taking his tally to 1.5 points out of a possible three, the Indian ace remains in the joint third spot in the eight-player double round-robin tournament.
The world rapid champion was held by 18-year old German Arkadij Naiditsch in the first round of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting.
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.
At a time when the sporting fraternity is divided over Salman Khan's appointment as brand ambassador for the Indian contingent for the upcoming Rio Olympics, five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand has said that the focus should be to address the needs of the Rio-bound athletes.
The draw gave the Rest of the World victory over Armenia in the Tigran Petrosian chess match.\n\n
The Rest of the World maintained a four-point lead over the Armenians with a 3-3 draw in the fourth match of the Tigran Petrosian event.
After a fine comeback, much can be expected from Viswanathan Anand when he takes on his remaining rivals.
World champion Viswanathan Anand's hunt for an elusive victory continued as he was held to a draw by Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the eighth round of the fifth Final Masters here at the Alhondiga in Bilbao, Spain.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw as black against World number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the seventh round of the 'A' group of 73rd Tata Steel Chess tournament at Wijk Aan Zee on Sunday.
World champion Viswanathan Anand tried his best but could not penetrate the solid defences of Hikaru Nakamura of United States in the opening round of the London Chess Classic in London, on Thursday.
Aiming for a win that has so far been elusive, world champion Viswanathan Anand will lock horns with an out-of-form Sergey Karjakin of Russia in the fourth round of the fifth Final Masters in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The Indian grandmaster maintained his slender lead in the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament with a clinical 1.5-0.5\n\nvictory over Zoltan Almasi.
Defending champion Viswanathan Anand started his campaign with a draw against Dutchman Anish Giri in the first round of Bilbao Masters Final chess tournament.
Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal cruised into the women's singles quarter-finals of the US$ 750,000 Indonesia Open Super Series even as India's challenge ended in the women's doubles event with the ouster of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa, in Jakarta.
World champion Viswanathan Anand ended his campaign with a draw against Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the ninth and final round of London Chess Classic on Tuesday. The Indian ace finished the tournament with nine points and had to be content with fifth place among nine contenders. Carlsen emerged a clear winner with 18 points under the soccer-like scoring system in place in the tournament.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Michael Adams of England in the sixth and penultimate round but the Indian ace continued to hold joint lead at the London Chess Classic.
World champion Viswanathan Anand's hopes of winning the Tal Memorial chess championship are all but over after playing out a draw against Hikaru Nakamura in the penultimate round in Moscow on Friday. With his eighth consecutive draw in as many rounds in the 10-player round-robin tournament, Anand is almost out of the reckoning for a top finish, as he has only four points out of a possible eight.
The Indian Grandmaster starts a huge favourite against Peter Leko in the semi-final of the Dortmund Sparkassen chess tournament.
World Champion D Gukesh began his campaign at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam tour with a mixed bag of results, including three draws and a lone loss, signaling that he is adapting to the new format.
Viswanathan Anand said he would not take any contender lightly in World Chess Championship in September.
The chess ace will help Vidyasagar, a NGO dedicated to integrating children with cerebral palsy into society.
Viswanathan Anand drew with Vassily Ivanchuk to maintain sole lead after the end of the Morelia stint of the Morelia-Linares chess.
World champion Viswanathan Anand coasted to his third victory with black and jumped into sole lead after defeating Peter Leko of Hungary in the fifth round of the Morelia-Linares Chess tournament, in Morelia, Mexico, on Thursday.
Victory eluded world champion Viswanathan Anand yet again as he played out a fourth draw in five games, against Boris Gelfand of Israel, and remained at the bottom after the fifth and penultimate round of the Zurich Chess Challenge.
Viswanathan Anand crushed Judit Polgar in the opening round of the World Chess Championships
World champion Viswanathan Anand delivered the goods when it mattered the most, defeating leader Magnus Carlsen of Norway in a complicated 11th round game of the 'A' group in the Corus International Chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee.
Parimarjan Negi beat Dennis Rujigrok of Holland to jump to joint second place in the 'C' group at the Corus International chess tournaments.
Defending champion Viswanathan Anand was stretched to the tie-breaker of the World Chess Championship by Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand following a draw in the 12th and final game, in Moscow, on Monday.
