Defending champion Viswanathan Anand will have a lot to think about ahead of the last game of the Chess World Championship against Boris Gelfand of Israel in Moscow.
The Indian ace now trails Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan 1.5-0.5 after the second game of the Rapid World Championship.
Vishwanathan Anand continued his winning ways as he annexed the 13th Grenkeleasing Rapid World Championship on Sunday.
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Five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand bounced back from his fourth round loss and beat his former world championship challenger Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria on Wednesday in the fifth round of London Chess Classic, the concluding edition of the Grand Chess Tour.
Viswanathan Anand scored 31 wins and eight draws in a simultaneous exhibition, but Pendyala Harikrishna proved disappointed in the Chess Classic World Rapid championship.
The extraneous support from the likes of Gary Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik in his World Championship battle has not diminished Viswanathan Anand's faith in his team of seconds. The Indian chess wizard on Tuesday ruled out any change in what he calls a 'band of brothers'.
The Asian Games gold medallist has now set her eyes on winning the world championship, which she said, will be her biggest challenge.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
The nation on Wednesday paid rich tributes to Grandmaster Viswanathan Anands for retaining the World Championship title.
'He asked us to spread awareness on social distancing and hygiene. He spoke about how we need Virat's (Kohli) fighting spirit to win this battle'
World Champion Viswanathan Anand outwitted Nigel Short of England to jump into joint lead with Luke McShane of England, after the end of the fourth round of the London Chess Classic, underway at the Olympia.
Viswanathan Anand defeated Russian Alexander Morozevich to emerge as the joint leader in the Grenkeleasing rapid world championship in Mainz, Germany.
Defending champion Viswanathan Anand, who clinched his fifth World Championship title at Moscow on Wednesday, said he is really relieved to achieve the milestone after an incredibly tense battle with Challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel.
Carlsen had previously indicated he would not consider the record truly broken until after two more games as he was not prepared to count two wins he had in the Norwegian league.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
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.
World champion Viswanathan Anand will take on world number four Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine in the first round of the Bilbao Grand Slam of chess. The event, which was opened on Monday, will be a crucial test for Anand ahead of the World Championship match against Vladimir Kramnik of Russia slated next month.
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World champion Viswanathan Anand beat Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain to enter the final of the Ciudad de Leon rapid chess tournament in Leon, Spain. Anand after being held to a draw 2-2 in the four scheduled games of the first semi-final won the tie-breaker 1.5-0.5 to complete a 3.5-2.5 verdict.
The Indian chess ace won the Morelia-Linares title and will thus attain top ranking in April.
Viswanathan Anand was on the threshold of victory despite losing the sixth game to Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk of Russia
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The world champion beat Alexei Shirov of Spain in the eighth round of the Morelia-Linares International chess tournament to extend his lead at the top of the eight-player double round-robin tournament to a full point.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
Viswanathan Anand kept himself in reckoning for his sixth title on the trot.
P Harikrishna lost the crucial third board to see India go down to Ukraine at the Chess Olympiad
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American Grandmaster Gata Kamsky beat Spaniard Alexei Shirov in the second game in the final of the chess World Cup and now needs only two draws to capture the title.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday
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Rustam Kasimdzhanov held Viswanathan Anand to a draw in the fourth round of the 22nd Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
The world No. 2 beat Teimour Radjabov by a 5-3 to win his sixth title on the trot in the World Rapid Chess Championship.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday.
The draw left the top seeded Indian at the bottom of the table after the second round in the Marx Gyorgy Memorial International Chess 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.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
Parimarjan Negi went down to second seed Grandmaster Michal Krasenkow in the eighth round and bowed out of the championship race in the Hogeschool Zeeland International chess tournament.
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