Anand lets Sergey off the hook

Russia's Sergey Karjakin has won the €100,000 ($130,000) Norway chess tournament after drawing against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria. Karjakin needed only a draw against Topalov to take the top prize after the world's No. 1 player, Magnus Carlsen, ...

While Sergey Karjakin of Russia remained on path of creating history after he scored a victory over Levon Aronian of Armenia. Anand blundered his way from a level position and the concern about his white results remained. Out of the three white ...

Sergey Karjakin, who was in the lead right through the course of Norway Chess 2013, went on to win the title after a last round draw with

Sergey Karjakin of Russia scored his third straight victory at the expense of Wang Hao of China to lead the table with three points. Anand and Levon Aronian follow him, a full point behind. Teimoru Radjabov of Azerbaijan finally won a game, ...

After the near miss in the previous round against leader

Viswanathan Anand crashed to defeat against Hikaru Nakamura in the fourth round of Norway Chess 2013 on a day when Sergey Karjakin continued his storming run. The Russian's win over Levon Aronian puts him 1.5 points ahead of Nakamura in second ...

Indian chess star Viswanathan Anand suffered a shock loss to next World Championship challenger Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the fifth round and slipped to the joint seventh spot in the Tal Memorial Tournament here. Playing the last classical game against ...

Playing the last classical game against Carlsen ahead of the World Championship match scheduled in Chennai in November next, Anand could not find any suitable plan and was outplayed by the young Norwegian in what could be termed as a rude wake up ...

World champion Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Boris Gelfand of Israel in the fourth round of Tal Memorial chess tournament. Playing after the first rest day, Anand got something to play for but his last world championship challenger also up to the ...