Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday announced the state will host the World Chess Championship this November between reigning champion from India Viswanathan Anand and the challenger Norway's Magnus Carlsen. Making the announcement in the assembly, Jayalalithaa said: "Considering that Tamil Nadu had come forward to hold the 2012 World Chess Championship, the World Chess Federation (WCF) had requested us to hold the contest this year in...
02:04 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Chennai: Of all the five world titles he has won so far, Indian chess wizard Viswanathan Anand has rated the latest one as the toughest in terms of intensity. Anand has been the undisputed world champion since 2007 and he is back in the country after defending his fifth world title, against challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel. "When you finish an event progressive, it is the toughest ever. It was...
02:00 PM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: The union sports ministry has announced a Rs. 10 lakh cash award for Viswanathan Anand, who was crowned the World Chess Champion for the fifth time. "We have a cash award for any sportsperson who wins in Asian Championships, World Championships, Olympics or any other major event. So, on the basis of that we have decided to give Rs. 10 lakh as a cash award to Anand. It...
05:54 PM, May 31, 2012
Viswanathan Anand parents talk exclusively to CNN-IBN after their son made them and whole nation proud. ...
10:31 PM, May 30, 2012
Viswanathan Anand successfully retained his world No. 1 title by winning the fourth game of his rapid chess tie-breaker against challenger Boris Gelfand on Wednesday. ...
08:52 PM, May 30, 2012
Viswanathan Anand successfully retained his world No. 1 title on Wednesday by winning the fourth game of his rapid chess tie-breaker against challenger Boris Gelfand. ...
07:53 PM, May 30, 2012
India's chess legend won his fifth world title by beating Boris Gelfand in a tie-breaker on Wednesday. ...
07:47 PM, May 30, 2012
Viswanathan Anand retained his world title by defeating Boris Gelfand in a tense tiebreaker in Moscow on Wednesday. ...
06:49 PM, May 30, 2012
Moscow: India's chess champion Viswanathan Anand has successfully retained his world No. 1 title by winning the fourth game of his rapid chess tie-breaker against challenger Boris Gelfand in the World Chess Championship on Wednesday. This is Anand's fifth world title. Anand led 2-1 going into the fourth game of the tie-breaker, which was set up after a tied 6-6 result with his Israeli challenger Boris in the 12th and...
06:36 PM, May 30, 2012
Moscow: Indias chess champion Viswanathan Anand has successfully retained his world No. 1 title by winning the fourth game of his rapid chess tie-breaker against challenger Boris Gelfand in the World Chess Championship on Wednesday. This is Anands fifth world title. Anand led 2-1 going into the fourth game of the tie-breaker, which was set up after a tied 6-6 result with his Israeli challenger Boris in the 12th and...
05:30 PM, May 30, 2012
India's Viswanathan Anand and Israel's Boris Gelfand play the tiebreaker today after 12 games failed to crown the World Chess Champion. ...
01:17 PM, May 30, 2012
Moscow: Israel's Boris Gelfand has said taking 40 minutes for a crucial move helped him draw the last round and stretch defending champion Viswanathan Anand to the tie-breaker of the World Chess Championship here. The players shook hands after the 22nd move by Anand, who was playing white, tying the match at 6-6 and forcing it to go to a tie-break on Monday. Gelfand said caution on the 10th move...
01:51 PM, May 29, 2012
Moscow: Defending champion Viswanathan Anand could not break the ice and settled for an easy draw against challenger Boris Gelfand in the tenth game of the World Chess Championship that concluded here on Thursday. Playing his penultimate white game in the 12-games match, Anand did not get the desired advantage he was hoping for even as the position looked favourable for a long time for the Indian. The scores are...
08:21 PM, May 24, 2012
Moscow: Defending champion Viswanathan Anand struck back with vengeance and scored the much-needed equaliser against Boris Gelfand in the eighth game of the World Chess Championship now underway here. On a day when everything worked in favour of Anand, Gelfand simply could not hold his thoughts together and ended up blundering his queen for little compensation. It turned out to be the shortest match in the recent world championship history...
08:10 PM, May 21, 2012
Moscow: Chess legend Garry Kasparov believes that reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand has lost motivation and the Indian, who is defending his title against Boris Gelfand right now, has been "sliding downhill" for the past few years. "What I think with Vishy is that he has lost motivation," Kasparov said in the commentary room of the championship where he came in as a guest of honour. Known to be outspoken,...
01:38 PM, May 19, 2012
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