Indian players experienced mixed fortunes in the second round of the FIDE Grand Swiss chess tournament here with two each in the men's and women's sections registering victories.
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 chess champion Viswanathan Anand received a rousing welcome by his fans, who lined-up in good numbers to greet him, as the chess wizard returned home after winning his fifth world title on Saturday.
World champion Viswanathan Anand ended his campaign with an easy draw against Sergey Karjaikin of Russia in the ninth and final round of Tal Memorial Chess tournament that concluded in Moscow.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand scored an emphatic victory over world number two Levon Aronian of Armenia to jump to joint lead with two others after the fourth round of the Tata Steel chess tournament, at Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands, on Wednesday.
The Indian ace plays Mongontuul Bathuyag of Mongolia in the eighth round of the World Junior girls' chess championship.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand has bowed out of contention for a top place in the Grenkeleasing World Rapid Chess championship after being eliminated in the preliminary round.
The World Cup champion drew with Alexander Grischuk and Alexei Shirov in his first two matches in the in World Rapid Chess Championship.
Tania Sachdev beat Bela Khotenashvili of Georgia in the third round and shares the lead with three others in World Junior Girls' Chess Championships.
Azerbaijan Kadir Guseinov leads the boys' section in the World Juniors chess championship.
The Indian Grandmaster led the boys' field by 0.5 points after the third round in the World Junior chess championship.
The top seeded Indian GM easily beat Ekaterina Ubiennykh of Russia in the 11th round and joined Zhao Xue of China and Nadezhda Kosintseva at the top in the World juniors girls' chess championship.
The Indian started his campaign with a fighting draw in the first round of the World Rapid Chess Championship.
Viswanathan Anand finished second in a strong field at the World Blitz Chess Championship.
World junior girls' champion Dronavalli Harika played out an easy draw as white with Anna Muzychuk of Slovenia in the first game of the second round of the ongoing World Women's Chess Championship in Nalchik, Russia. Harika, who had beaten Russian Vera Nebolsina in the first round to advance to the last 32 stage in this knock-out event, will play the return game on Tuesday with black.
Athletes lauded for their performances on National Sports Day
The Indian GM beat Levan Pantsulaia of Georgia to move to joint fourth place in the World junior chess championship.
'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?'
Anna Ushenina of Ukraine claimed the women's World Championship crown, defeating Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria in the first set of tie-break games in Khanty Mansiysk.
A draw would have sufficed but Grandmaster Koneru Humpy showed no mercy and recorded her second successive win against Shen Yang of China to storm into the semifinals of the World Women's Chess Championship in Nalchik (Russia).
Grandmaster Levon Aronian and Ni Hua share the lead after the sixth round in the World junior chess championships.
World junior chess champion GM Shakhriyaz Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan clinched the Dubai Cup.
Vishy Anand talks to Shobha Warrier about life after his triumpoh in the fifth World Chess Championship.
The Indian ace beat former World champion Anatoly Karpov of Russia in the seventh round to make the grade in the World Rapid Chess tournament.\n\n
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran defeated Commonwealth champion and former World championship finalist Nigel Short of England in the fifth round of the 'B' group in the Corus International chess tournament, in Wijk Aan Zee (The Netherlands), on Thursday.
Dronavalli Harika won the world under-14 girls title, while Parimarjan Negi took the bronze in the under-12 boys category in the World Youth Chess Championships.
Top seeded Shakhriyaz Mamedyarov strengthened his position at the top in the World Jr. chess, maintaining a ghalf point lead.
India registered a lucky victory over Turkey in a closely-fought encounter to hold on to their joint third spot at the end of the seventh round of the World Team Chess Championship now in progress in Bursa, Turkey on Tuesday.
India's unbeaten run in the World Team Chess Championship on Monday came to a halt after they were handed a 1.5-2.5 defeat by top seed Russia, who remained on top of the tally after the sixth round.
A final round draw was enough for Goa's Ivana Furtado to bag the girls under-eight category gold, while fellow Indians Shalmali Gagare and Prince Bajaj bagged a bronze each in the World Youth Chess Championships in Antalya, Turkey.
The Indian Woman Grandmaster is joint-fifth after the seventh round in the World Junior girls' chess championship.
She was the only remaining Indian woman in the World chess championships in Russia
Grandmaster Levon Aronian of Armenia won the boys' title in the World junior chess championships which concluded on Friday.
World Cup champion Anand outplayed Russian champion Peter Svidler in the blitz tie-break to make the summit clash in the World Rapid Chess Championship.
The other semi-final in the World Rapid Chess championship will be between Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Grischuk.
World champion Viswanathan Anand played two draws with Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the second round to occupy joint fourth spot in the 20th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess tournament in Monaco.
'Whenever I go for a tournament, only one thing is there in my mind: to win,' says Under-12 World chess champion N Srinath.
Deep Sengupta lost to Zhao Jun of China after scoring upset wins over Grandmasters in earlier rounds.
The two players are leading the table with four points each after four rounds of the World Junior Chess championship.
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand will look to avenge last year's championship defeat and clinch his sixth world title when he takes on Magnus Carlsen in the first game of the World Chess championship in Sochi, on Saturday.
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