The Indian ace trounced Peter Svidler to take the sole lead after seven rounds in the rapid section of the Melody Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
Anand despite only half a point in rapid maintained his second posisition in Rapid section.
Viswanathan Anand took sole lead after ten rounds of the Morelia Linares Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
He played out a fighting draw with Peter Svidler to remain in joint lead along with Magnus Carlsen.
The Indian closed the first half of the Morelia Linares chess on a winning note with a thumping win over Peter Leko in the seventh round.
The victory put the Indian in sole lead at the end of the fourth round in the Morelia-Linares chess tournament.
The Indian ace was held for the second successive day in the Morelia/Linares Super Grandmasters' chess tournament.
Magnus Carlsen of Norway stole day one honours in the Morelia-Linares chess tournament after putting it across Alexander Morozevich of Russia to emerge early sole leader
'Whenever I go for a tournament, only one thing is there in my mind: to win,' says Under-12 World chess champion N Srinath.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand ended his campaign with a draw against Peter Svidler of Russia, while another Russian Sergey Karjakin emerged the new challenger for the next World Championship match after the conclusion of the Candidates chess tournament in Moscow.
World No 1 Viswanathan Anand won the World Chess Championship after a quick draw against Hungarian Peter Leko in the 14th and final round.
The Indian Grandmaster drew his 13th round game against Alexander Grischuk of Russia, and needs only a draw against Peter Leko in the final round to win the World Chess Championship.
The Indian ace, who is second in the table, took his tally to 3 points after the fourth round of the Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand was engaged in a quick 22 moves draw with Peter Svidler to stay one point ahead of the field after 12 rounds of the World Chess Championships in Mexico City.
Viswanathan Anand beat Alexander Morozevich in the 11th round of the World Chess Championship to swell his score to 7.5 points, 1.5 clear of the field.
Levon Aronian, Veselin Topalov and Teimour Radjabov jointly won the Category-19 Corus Chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand registered an easy victory in the first round of the Mtel Masters International chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand took a major step towards becoming the next World Chess Champion with a solid draw in the tenth round.
Viswanathan Anand played a short but solid draw with Lev Aronian in the ninth round of the World Chess Championships.
The victory enabled the Indian ace narrow the gap between him and tournament leader Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the Corus chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand beat Alexander Grischuk in the seventh round to shoot back into sole lead at the World Chess Championship.
Viswanathan Anand scored a beautiful victory over Russian Peter Svidler in the fifth round of the World Chess Championships.
The draw kept Teimour Radjabov in sole lead, on 5.5 points out of a possible seven, while Anand inched to 4.5 points, in the Corus chess tournament.
Anand, with a draw in 57 moves stays in shared lead with Vladimir Kramnik, both having 2.5 points from four games.
The victory took the Indian ace to joint-second in the Corus chess tournament, behind, Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan.
The first day at the World Championships witnessed drawn games. All the eight players in the double round-robin event are tied on a half point each.
The draw took Anand to two points out of a possible three in the Corus Grandmasters 'A' chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in the first round of the Corus Chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand says one factor that has contributed immensely to this has been his habit of 'forgetting' achievements.
World champion Viswanathan Anand kept his three-point lead intact as he held off Vladimir Kramnik in the ninth game of the World Chess Championship final. The draw brought Anand closer to the world title, which he gets to keep on reaching 6.5 points.
The Indian ace beat Armenia's Levon Aronian in the final.
The victory enabled the Indian ace stay in joint lead after the blindfold game in the 10th and penultimate round of Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament.
Five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand began his campaign in the Zurich Chess Challenge on a losing note, beaten by Armenia's Levon Aronian in the first round.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand won two, lost two and drew one for a joint third place finish at the blitz tournament of Zurich Chess Classic.
The India ace scored win and two draws on the second day at the Chess 960 World Championship in Mainz.
The Indian ace regained joint lead in the combined standings after beating Peter Leko of Hungary
Viswanathan Anand will bid to claim the title from defending champion Alexei Shirov at the annual Ciudad de Leon chess tournament
The Indian ace underlined his superiority in the game once more as he outplayed Veselin Topalov 3-1 in the final.
In a repeat of last year's final, Viswanathan Anand will take on Veselin Topalov in the Title match of the Magistral Ciudad de Leon Chess Tournament after the Bulgarian Grandmaster defeated Rustam Kasimdzhanov in the semi-finals in Leon, Spain.
Viswanathan Anand opened his campaign at the 20th Ciudad de Leon chess tournament with a comprehensive 3-1 win over Ruslan Ponomariov.
