Mani Shankar Iyer, Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs, will felicitate World chess champion Viswanathan Anand at a grand function, in Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Naidu.
Scores of people and students turned out at the Chennai domestic airport to receive the World champion, who has also broken through the Elo 2800 points barrier.
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 chess champion wonders whether his countrymen will give him the same reception they extended to the Twenty20 World Cup-winning cricketers.
Viswanathan Anand replaced Vladimir Kramnik of Russia as champion, when he won the World Chess Championship in Mexico City on Saturday night.
The Indian ace was involved in a 20-move draw with the Israeli Grandmaster, which kept his half point lead intact at the World Chess Championship.
Viswanathan Anand split points with the Hungarian to remain in lead after the sixth round of the World Chess Championship.
Top seeded Anand survived a few anxious moments before settling for a draw in the third round of the World Chess championship.
A world title in the current format is something that will add to the glittering cupboard of the world number one.
The American-born chess ace, who settled in Iceland in 2005 and was later granted Icelandic citizenship, died of an unspecified illness at the age of 64.
Russian-turned-American Grandmaster Gata Kamsky stormed into the final of the World Chess Cup, defeating Norwegian super talent Magnus Carlsen in the second game of the semi-finals in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, on Monday. He will meet the winner of the match between Alexei Shirov of Spain and Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine.
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran squandered several chances as GM Bartlomiej Macieja of Poland stretched their third round match to a tie-breaker in the World Chess Cup
Viswanathan Anand scored a stunning win over Lev Aronian in the second round of the World Chess Championships.
The world number one will start with white pieces against Boris Gelfand of Israel in the opener of the World Chess Championship.
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.
Viswanathan Anand said he would not take any contender lightly in World Chess Championship in September.
The national champion registered a second straight victory over United States champion Hikaru Nakamura to advance at the World Chess Cup.
Viswanathan Anand on how he conqured the world in Mexico.
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.
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.
Viswanathan Anand played a short but solid draw with Lev Aronian in the ninth round of the World Chess Championships.
Viswanathan Anand beat Alexander Grischuk in the seventh round to shoot back into sole lead at the World Chess Championship.
Anand, with a draw in 57 moves stays in shared lead with Vladimir Kramnik, both having 2.5 points from four games.
The other quarter-finalists in the World Chess Cup are Evgeny Bareev, Etinnie Bacrot, Levon Aronian, Michail Gurevich, Ruslan Ponomariov, Sergei Rublevsky and Alexander Grischuk.
Chess's world governing body will introduce dope testing at the Asian Games this week, although the sport's top official in Doha said he had no idea how drugs could enhance chess performance.
Sports fraternity mourns former PM Vajpayee's demise
Former world champion Garry Kasparov has announced his retirement from competition chess, according to Spanish media reports.
Top seed Veselin Topalov's winning spree was halted by GM Sergei Movsesian of Slovakia in the World Chess Championship.
15-year-old Abhijeet Gupta became the India's youngest International Master after FIDE awarded him the title
Playing black, Ponomariov beat Loek Van Wely, while, with white, Grischuk got the better of American Gata Kamsky at the World Chess Cup.
The former World Junior champion beat Giovanni Vescovi of Brazil at the World Chess Cup.
P Harikrishna lost to Giovanni Vescovi in the first game of the second round in the World Chess Cup
World No 3 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan, current World Cup winner Levon Aronian and India number two Harikrishna shared the lead with two points apiece.
Viswanathan Anand emerged clear third after the 11th round of the World chess championship.
Viswanathan Anand crushed Judit Polgar in the opening round of the World Chess Championships
The former world chess champion was held by immigration authorities for an apparent passport violation.
Woman Grandmaster Bhakti Kulkarni and Grandmaster S P Sethuraman made history, winning the gold medal in the Asian Continental Women's and Open chess championship that concluded in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Friday.
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand's bad form continued as he finished 22nd in the World Blitz Chess championship, which concluded in Berlin on Thursday.
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