Mardin, Turkey: India scored an emphatic 4-0 victory over South Africa and jumped to joint second spot after the third round of the World Women's Team Chess Championship on Wednesday. Taking it easy, mainstay Koneru Humpy was rested for tougher battles ahead while D Harika, Tania Sachdev, Padmini Rout and Soumya Swaminathan scored fine victories to keep the team in contention for a medal in the premier team event. On...
12:58 PM, Dec 21, 2011
Mardin (Turkey): Led by Koneru Humpy, the Indian women's team cruised to an emphatic 3.5-0.5 victory over Turkey and jumped to fourth spot after the end of the second round of the World Women Team Chess Championship here. Kubra Ozturk denied India a complete whitewash against the hosts by holding International Master Tania Sachdev to an easy draw, while on the other three boards the Indian girls had no problems...
06:06 PM, Dec 20, 2011
London: World Champion Viswanathan Anand played out another draw, signing peace with Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the eighth and penultimate round of London Chess Classic here. On his 42nd birthday, the draw came easy for Anand as he remained on joint fifth spot, taking his tally to eight points in the soccer-like scoring system. Vladimir Kramnik of Russia steered clear of the field with a hard-fought victory over Luke...
05:05 PM, Dec 12, 2011
London: Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta won the London Chess Classic's open section with a hard-earned triumph over GM Keith Arkell of England while International Master Sahaj Grover pulled himself to the second spot after the final round of the event that concluded on Sunday. Abhijeet, a former world junior champion and reigning national champion, scored eight points in all and will be past the coveted 2650 ELO rating mark in the...
10:35 AM, Dec 12, 2011
London: World Champion Viswanathan Anand's hopes of catching up with his rivals has almost ended after he played out a draw with Levon Aronian of Armenia at the end of the seventh round of London Chess Classics here. With his fourth draw in six games so far, Anand took his tally to seven points in the football-like scoring system in place here. The world champion had a solitary victory against...
08:12 PM, Dec 11, 2011
London: World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with former challenger Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the seventh round of the London Chess Classic here. After a hard earned victory over Nigel Short of England in the previous round, Anand failed to take advantage of playing with white pieces and decided to split points on the first all-drawn day in the Classic this year. World number one Magnus Carlsen...
10:08 AM, Dec 10, 2011
London: World Champion Viswanathan Anand finally found his winning ways when he defeated Nigel Short of England in the fifth round of London Chess Classic here. After as many as 11 drawn games in competitive classical games and a shocking loss against American Hikaru Nakamura in the previous round, the Indian ace beat Short who is clearly having a tough time here. Yet again, the day produced three decisive games...
11:47 AM, Dec 09, 2011
London: World Champion Viswanathan Anand let go off an excellent position after losing to Hikaru Nakamura of United States in the fourth round of the London Chess Classic here on Wednesday. After 11 successive draws in a row, including nine draws in the just concluded Tal Memorial at Moscow, the loss on Wednesday proved to be too costly for Anand as he fell to joint seventh spot in the nine-player...
06:04 PM, Dec 07, 2011
London: World Champion Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by David Howell of England in the third round of London Chess Classic here on Tuesday. For the records, this was Anand's 11th draw in a row following nine draws in the just concluded Tal Memorial at Moscow and his first round draw with English GM Michael Adams. World number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway cruised past Hikaru Nakamura of...
07:06 PM, Dec 06, 2011
London: On a day World Champion Viswanathan Anand had a bye, Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura of United States stole the thunder with a fine victory over Armenian Levon Aronian in the second round of 3rd London Chess Classic here. Russian Vladimir Kramnik made merry scoring a thumping victory over an out-of-sort Nigel Short of England, while the other two games ended in draws and first to sign peace was English David...
08:54 PM, Dec 05, 2011
London: Playing with black pieces, world Champion Viswanathan Anand managed an easy draw against top British player Michael Adams in the first round of the third Chess Classic. It was Anand's 10th draw in a row in classical chess. World Number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway snatched an early lead in the 160000 Pounds Sterling tournament after defeating David Howell of England in a tense game. With the soccer-like scoring...
12:17 AM, Dec 05, 2011
Moscow: Viswanathan Anand finished tied sixth after signing peace with Boris Gelfand of Israel in the ninth and final round of the Tal Memorial Chess tournament on Saturday. This was a rare result for the world champion, who played out all draws in the strongest tournament of the year featuring a 10-player double round-robin tournament. Playing with black pieces against his next World Championship challenger Gelfand, Anand drew in 29...
10:06 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Tirana, Albania: Grandmaster Koneru Humpy settled for a draw in the must-win eighth-round game as defending champion Yifan Hou became the women's world champion by triumphing 5.5-2.5 against the Indian here. Under tremendous pressure and admittedly out of form, Humpy could not use her white pieces well in the eighth game which was another Queen's gambit declined. The Indian had spoilt many good positions during the course of the match...
11:07 AM, Nov 25, 2011
Moscow: World Champion Viswanathan Anand's hunt for an elusive victory continued as he played out another draw with Magnus Carlsen of Norway to slip to joint sixth spot in the seventh round of Tal Memorial international chess tournament here. The much hyped encounter did not quite provide anything spectacular and the World No 1 Carlsen equalised comfortably to get an easy draw in the end. Vassily Ivanchuk ended the drawing...
03:48 PM, Nov 24, 2011
Tirana: Grandmaster Koneru Humpy's title prospects suffered a near decisive blow when she lost the seventh-round game against Yifan Hou of China in the World Women's Chess Championship here. Trailing 2-4 before this game, Humpy could not survive a persistent onslaught by the younger Chinese and went on to lose her third game in the 10-game match. The Chinese now leads by a huge 5-2 margin and needs just a...
02:58 PM, Nov 24, 2011
Moscow: World Champion Viswanathan Anand played out his sixth draw on the trot, signing peace with long-time rival Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine in the sixth round of the Tal memorial tournament here. Playing black, Anand did not get much to hope for against some solid play by Ivanchuk and the Indian inched up to three points from six games in the strongest tournament of the year. Interestingly, for the third...
12:11 PM, Nov 23, 2011
Tirana: Koneru Humpy suffered her second defeat in six games on Tuesday against defending champion Yifan Hou of China in the Women's World Chess Championship here. With two losses and four draws so far in the 10-game contest, Humpy is trailing Yifan 2-4. And now with just four games to go, Yifan has a two-point lead over her Indian opponent. Yifan yet again capitalised on an erroneous plan by Humpy...
06:03 PM, Nov 22, 2011
Tirana: Victory continues to elude grandmaster Koneru Humpy who had to settle for her fourth draw out of five games against defending champion Yifan Hou of China at the half way stage of the Women's World Chess Championship here. With one loss and four draws in the 10-game contest, the Indian continues to trail Yifan by a full point at 2-3. But Humpy will have the advantage of playing white...
05:07 PM, Nov 21, 2011
Moscow: World Champion Viswanathan Anand held nemesis Levon Aronian of Armenia in the fourth round of Tal memorial international chess tournament now underway here. In the eyes of many experts, Anand was close to recording his second loss against Aronian in as many games following the Bilbao final masters. However, some precise manoeuvres saw the Indian ace salvage the half point. All five games of the fourth round ended in...
10:01 AM, Nov 20, 2011
Tirana: Indian Grandmaster Koneru Humpy recovered from a difficult position to play out a draw with defending champion Yifan Hou of China in the fourth game of the World Women's Chess Championship here. After losing the third game with white pieces, this was a decent comeback by Humpy who was in a difficult position for most part of the match and she eventually got a draw with her second black...
02:15 PM, Nov 19, 2011
