Defending champion Viswanathan Anand of India has ended up it a draw. He was playing his seventh game with Veselin Topalov in the World Chess Championship. After 58th move, the draw has been decided but the Indian maintain his one-point lead over his counterpart. Anand has managed to get one point despite the draw.

Defending champion Viswanathan Anand of India has ended up in a draw. He was playing his sixth game with Veselin Topalov in the World Chess Championship. After 56-move, the draw has been decided but the Indian maintain his one-point lead over his counterpart. Anand has managed to get one point despite the draw.

India’s Viswanathan Anand has defeated the joint leader Vladimir Kramnik in just 45 moves in the 11th round of the 72nd Corus Chess Tournament (CCT) at Wijk aan Zee in Amsterdam on Saturday.

Anand dominated throughout the game as he exchanged his rook for a knight to avoid draw and traded his second rook for a minor piece. Kramnik, with Petroff defense with black pieces, decided to accept his defeat after two advanced central passed pawns of Anand.

Iranian Grandmaster Maghami Ehsan Ghaem has defeated Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan in the ninth round to take lead in the 8th Parsvnath International Open chess tournament at the Modern School hall in New Delhi on Wednesday.

The third seeded Maghami regained the sole lead with eight points after victory over Dzhumaev in 41 moves while second seed Slovenian GM Lenic Luka, Kazakh GM Pavel Kotsur and Russian International Master Nikolay Tolstikh are placed at second spot with seven and half points.

Dzhumaev was once looking in a good position in the match with a chance to exchange one of his minor pieces for a rook of Maghami but Maghami held her nerves and traded queens on the
41st move to race away with the match.

India managed to hold their joint third spot as India has defeated Turkey 2.5-1.5 in a nail biting match in the seventh round of the World Team Chess Championship (WTCC) at Bursa in Turkey on Tuesday.

First three games ended without a result and score was tied at 1.5 points each when Grandmaster G N Gopal guided India to victory by registering victory over Abdel Razek Khaled of Turkey.

Kolkata, Dec 28 : India A men's team overwhelmed Sri Lanka to annex the gold in the Tata Steel Asian Team Chess Championship which concluded here Monday.

In the women's section, overnight leaders, Vietnam crushed tail-enders Nepal 4-0 to total 11 points and get the gold.

India A men's side maintained their all-win record to finish with 14 points, well ahead of Vietnam and Iran who collected 11 each.

Kolkata, Dec 26 :The India A men's team inched closer to the title, beating Iran convincingly 3.5-0.5 in the fifth round of the Asian Team Chess Championship here Saturday.

With two more rounds remaining, India A are now in a commanding position with 10 points, with their nearest rivals Iran and Vietnam being three points behind on seven points apiece.

Only Indian captain K. Sasikiran was held to a draw by GM Elshan Moradiabadi , while P. Harikrishna, S. S. Ganguly and Parimarjan Negi won their games comfortably at the Town Hall.

India B almost derailed the campaign of India A in the women’s section of the Tata Steel Asian team chess championship on Friday.

Joint leaders overnight, India A lost 1.5-2.5, which dashed their chances of emerging winners as Vietnam beat Iran to emerge sole leaders with seven points. India A and B with Singapore are second with five.

Kolkata, Dec 22 :Top seeds India A teams won by the narrowest margin of 2.5-1.5 against their less fancied opponents Bangladesh and Indonesia in both the Men's and women's section on the opening day of the Tata Steel Asian team chess championship here Tuesday.

In men's contest, Parimarjan Negi of India A was the only player from India A to win his game while the rest - including the highest rated player of the meet Grandmaster P. Harikrishna - drew their games. Harikrishna had to share a point with Bangladesh Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman.

Kolkata, Dec 19 : As many as 19 Grand Masters and 10 Women's Grand Masters are among the 100-odd players taking part in the $5,000 16th Asian team chess championships that begin here Sunday, though defending champions China will be missing.

Being held in the eastern metropolis for the first time, the tourney would see 10 countries, including the hosts, in action, with the men's and women's champions being richer by $1,000 and $700 respectively. Besides India, who won the title in 2005, nine other countries are Indonesia, Iran, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Yemen, Nepal, Singapore and Mongolia.

Kolkata, Dec 16 : Grand Masters K. Sasikiran and S. Satyapragyan will spearhead the men's challenge in the $5,000 prize money 16th Asian team chess championship to be held here Dec 20-28.

While Sasikiran will captain Indian Team A, Satyapragyan will lead Team B, as the host country is eligible to field two sides, organisers Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy said Wednesday.    

On the women's side, D. Harika will captain Team A while Nisha Mohota will lead Team B in the tourney set to be staged at the Town Hall.    

Kolkata Nov 30 : Altogether 380 students from over 160 schools across 10 Indian states and Bangladesh will compete for the Rs. 1 lakh prize money the Telegraph Schools' Chess Championship Dec 1-8 here.

The 21st edition of the championship, being held at the Gorky Sadan, will see last year's second placed player Sayantan Das as the top seed, followed by Sayajit Kundu and Prince Bajaj as the second and third placed players respectively.

Three and a half years old Aryan Daga will be the youngest player in the tourney, the only school level FIDE-rating chess tournament of the country.

Moscow, Nov 13 (IANS) World champions Vishwanathan Anand was held by Russian Alexander Morozevic in the seventh round of the Tal Memorial Chess here.

Anand playing with white may have held hopes of scoring over Morozevich. But Morozevic had some solid play and managed to hold the World Champion to a draw in the Queen's Gambit here Thursday.

The world no. 2, Koneru Humpy has decided to pull herself out of the Asian Indoor Games to be played in Vietnam to protest against the harassment by the All India Chess Federation (AICF).

Humpy had alleged DV Sundar, Secretary of All India Chess federation, of harassing her mentally and she has withdrawn from Asian Indoor Games after Sundar refused to give permission to her father to work as her coach.

Coimbatore, Oct. 24 : The first All India Open Chess Tournament for the visually impaired kicked off in Coimbatore on Saturday.

Over 200 players from 21 states are participating in the five-day national chess tournament for blind.

The tournament will have nine rounds and will be played under the Swiss league system and under FIDE (an international chess organisation).

Vaishali Salavkar, a gold medallist in international chess Olympiad, Greece, is also participating in the tournament.

Vietnamese GM Le Quang Liem has won the title of 4th Kolkata Open Chess tournament after playing a draw against IM S Satyapragyan in the final round at Alekhine Chess Club, Gorky Sadan, on Thursday. Liem won cash reward of Rs 3 lakh with title.

Liem earned total 8 points to finish at the top while Shakhriyar Mamedyarov stood at second position with 7.5 points and pocketed a cheque of Rs 2 lakh. Local GMs Sandipan Chanda and Surya Sekhar Ganguly finished at fourth and eighth positions respectively.

World champion Viswanathan Anand has finished at the tied third position in the Grenkeleasing world rapid chess championship after he failed to give his best in the tournament at Mainz, Germany on Monday.

Anand was unable to claim the title for 12th time as he was eliminated in the prelims of the annual event earlier. Today, all the four games against German Arkadiz Naiditsch for the third place ended in draws and both were forced to share third spot.

Viswanathan Anand has defeated Peter Leko in 8-game rapid match in Miskolc Rapid tournament which held in the National Theatre of Miskolc from 2-7 June 2009.

Anand defeated Leko by 5-3 in Miskolc Rapid tournament which includes two wins by Anand against Leko.

On the final day, Leko needed to win both games to force blitz tie-breaker games but both games ended in a draw.

Leko plays with the strong players of chess every year in a rapid format match in Miskolc which started from playing with Adams in 2005 and in 2008, he played with Carlsen.

International Master Deep Sengupta has won the premier category (under 25) title with six points in fourth edition of Chess for Youth in Netaji Indoor Stadium at Kolkata.

Chess for Youth is a one hour rapid chess tournament in Swiss format which is organized by Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy (DBCA) in association with Allsport Management.

Deep won this title in seven rounds and won prize money of Rs 15,000.

Bitan Banarjee and Joydeep Dutta secured joint second spot with 5.5 points each. This tournament also included competition among five age-group categories in the junior section.

With their faces less than a foot away, the top seed and his challenger introduce themselves across the table. It’s the National Open Chess Tournament for the Blind and Srikrishna Udupa is one of the favourites. Udupa is expected to get through without trouble against Ajay Kumar of Kerala, but the two make small talk as they await the signal to start.

“What do you do?” asks Ajay, to which Udupa replies: “I’m a chess coach. I used to coach for free, but I ran into some financial trouble, so I had to do this full time.”