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  • Sasikiran, Koneru earn facile win in Kolkata Open
    Indian GM Krishnan Sasikiran won his opening tie in the first round of the 3rd Kolkata Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament here today.
  • Viswanathan Anand is new World Chess Champion
    Viswanathan Anand installed himself as the new World Chess Champion with a quick bloodless 20-move draw against Peter Leko of Hungary in the 14th and final round of the Championships here.
  • Career landmarks: Anand a path-breaker all the way
    Viswanathan Anand, India's greatest chess player ever and one of the all-time greats of the game.............
  • The feeling is yet to sink in: Anand
    It is never easy to avoid jumping with joy after competing three tense weeks against the world's best players at the end of which one emerges as the undisputed world champion.
  • Anand's is a career full of glittering highlights
    India's Viswanathan Anand played a short 20-move draw with Hungarian Grandmaster Peter Leko to become the undisputed world chess champion in Mexico City Saturday night.
  • Anand faces two tough games in last three rounds
    Indian Grandmaster (GM) Viswanathan Anand, who leads the World Chess Championship here............
  • Anand draws 12th round, edges closer to world title
    India's Viswanathan Anand played out a quick draw with Russian Peter Svidler and stayed a point ahead of the pack at the end of the 12th round of the World Chess Championships here.
  • Anand draws with Svidler, his lead over Gelfand down to 1 point
    Top seed and current leader Viswanthan Anand drew with Peter Svidler in the 12th Round of the World Chess Championship...........
  • Anand draws, but stays in joint lead in world chess
    World No.1 Viswanathan Anand of India allowed a great winning opportunity to slip by and had to be content with a draw against Russian Alexander Morozevich in the fourth round............
  • Morozevich's stiff resistance deprives Anand a victory
    Stiff resistance from Russian Grandmaster Alexander Morozevich deprived Viswanathan Anand a victory in a well fought game in the fourth round of the World Chess Championship here.
  • Anand narrowly escape defeat, draws with Kramnik
    The dual between world number one Viswanathan Anand and the Reigning Champion Vladimir Kramnik ended in a stalemate in the third round of the World Chess Championship here.
  • World Chess Championship moves inauguration venue after protests
    The World Chess Championship has moved the venue for its opening ceremony after unrelated protests in front of the legislative assembly here..........
  • Anand bids to regain world chess title
    World no.1 Viswanathan Anand of India will try to regain the $1.3 million World Chess Championship when eight stalwarts lock horns here from Thursday.
  • Nagpur to host junior national girls chess tournament next month
    The Junior (under 19) National Girls Chess tournament will be held in Nagpur from September 22 to 28 next.
  • Anand ready for Mainz chess challenge
    World No. 1 Viswanathan Anand will try to increase his tally of titles from this German tournament to a staggering 10 as the Chess Classic Mainz gets underway this week.
  • India win World Youth Olympiad
    India won the World Youth Chess Olympiad in Singapore today scoring a 3-1 victory over the host nation and finished on top with 28 points.
  • Laxman, Nimmy emerge joint leaders
    International Master R R Laxman of Tamil Nadu and Nimmy A George of Kerala emerged joint leaders with four points each in the fourth round of the Airtel S K Pottekkat Gold Medal Fide-rated..............
  • Tamil Nadu players advance in Chess tourney
    Top seed P Karthikeyan and International Master R R Laxman, both from Tamil Nadu............
  • Anand plays third straight draw in Sparkassen chess
    World No. 1 Viswanathan Anand of India played his third successive draw at the Sparkassen Super Grandmasters chess, this time against Boris Gelfand of Israel.
  • Sparkassen chess: Anand draws, stays joint second
    World No. 1 Viswanathan Anand of India maintained his unbeaten run, but played out a draw against world No. 4 Shakriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan in the fifth round of Sparkassen Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
  • World chess No. 1 Anand extends lead
    India's world No. 1 chess exponent Viswanathan Anand has extended his lead to 23 points, according to the July rating list released Sunday by the sport's world governing body FIDE.
  • Anand lets a chance slip, still tied second
    World No. 1 Viswanathan Anand missed out on a fine opportunity to register his second win of the Sparkassen Super Grandmasters chess tournament here as he allowed Evegeny Alekseev to escape with a draw in the sixth round.
  • A young world chess champion soon, says Negi
    The game of chess is gradually becoming younger with the advent of technology and very soon we may even have a world champion in his 20s, feels the world's youngest Grandmaster (GM) Parimarjan Negi.
  • Anand flags off Mind Champions Academy in Tripura
    Indian chess grandmaster and former FIDE world champion Viswanathan Anand has flagged off NIIT’s Mind Champions Academy in 28 government schools here today.
  • Chess: Women feel inferior when they play against men
    A new study has suggested that women chess players play worse against their male counterparts, inspite of the fact that one percent of them are grandmasters.
  • Anand crushes Carlsen, shares lead
    Viswanathan Anand won an engrossing game against Norwegian Magnus Carlsen and jumped in to joint lead along side Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine after the end of the third round of Morelia-Linares chess tournament.
  • Humpy looking to improve her ratings
    Upbeat after her double gold medal feat at the recent Doha Asian Games, Koneru Humpy has set her eyes on improving her ELO ratings by playing more international tournaments next season.
  • Top seeds have a good day
    Top seeded Bangladesh GM Ziaur Rahman easily outwitted his ten-year-old opponent Chandrashish Majumdar as the higher ranked players cruised to victories in the first round of the Bengal Peerless FIDE Rating chess tournament at the Gorky Sadan here today.
  • India win second gold in chess
    India expectedly bagged the coveted gold medal in the Asian Games chess mixed team classical event here today to end the country's campaign on a golden note.
  • India adds chess gold on penultimate day
    India's chess team gave the country its 10th gold medal and the wrestlers two bronze on the penultimate day of the 15th Asian Games here Thursday to lift the country to seventh spot on the medals table.
  • Chess team gives India 10th Asiad gold
    The Indian chess team gave the country its 10th gold medal Thursday despite a draw with Kazakhstan in the ninth and final round of the mixed classical competition at the 15th Asian Games here.
  • India sure of team chess gold with one round to spare
    India added a second gold medal with one round to spare as chess team outplayed Indonesia 2.5-0.5 in the eight and the penultimate round in the mixed classical event in the 15th Asian Games here Wednesday.
  • India inches towards chess gold
    The Indian chess team is almost sure of a gold in the mixed classical event as it defeated Indonesia in the eighth and the penultimate round and maintained its lead with 18.5 points at the 15th Asian Games here Wednesday.
  • Anand to skip Asian Games
    World number two Viswanathan Anand will not take part in the Doha Asian Games where chess will figure as a medal sport for the first time in the event's history.
  • One Move At A Time – Former State Trooper Turned Motivational Speaker Teaches Toughest At-Risk Youth
    Look, You Can Make One Move In Life – And Never Recover. A former Alabama state trooper turned chess champion and motivational speaker uses the venerable game of chess to impart a key life lesson to at-risk African American youth. Since founding Be Someone, Inc, a crime prevention and educational non-profit organization founded in 2000, Orrin Hudson has used colorful,
  • PSPB's Lanka Ravi stays ahead
    International Master Lanka Ravi settled for a quick draw with IM R R Laxman of Tamil Nadu and continued to lead in the 11th round of 44th National 'B' Chess championship at Karnavati club here.
  • Six share lead in National 'B' chess
    Women Grandmaster Eesha Karavade came out with a sterling performance to beat P Pravin Prasad and remain in joint lead of the 44th National 'B' chess championship here.
  • National chess championship for blind players from August 26
    At least 100 visually handicapped chess players from all over the country would participate in the four-day 10th National Chess Championship for the Blind to be held here from August 26.
  • Chess: Anand King of Mainz again
    World number 2 Viswanathan Anand reserved his best for the final day scoring two thumping victories to stamp authority in the Grenkeleasing World Rapid Championship in the Mainz Chess Classic here.
  • Anand bounces back against Radjabov
    World number two Viswanathan Anand bounced back in style defeating Grandmaster Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan in the third game of Grenkeleasing Rapid world championship at the Mainz Chess Classic here.
  • Harikrishna to play Chess 960 match
    It will be a different challenge for former World Junior champion P Harikrishna when he takes on Grandmaster Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany in the Chess 960 junior championship match, a part of the Mainz Chess Classic.
  • Batucan, Engay are chess champs
    HIGHLY-touted John Ray Batucan and Danilo Engay lived up to their billings to annex the boys 10-under and 14-under titles of the just-concluded Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte....
  • Negi loses to Krasenkow
    Parimarjan Negi went down to second seed Grandmaster Michal Krasenkow of Poland in the eighth round to bow out of the championship race in the Hogeschool Zeeland International chess tournament here.


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