Super Anand rises to second spot

press trust of indiaBryne (Norway), 12 May: Fresh from a brilliant victory against Bulgarian Veselin Topalov, world champion Viswanathan will next take on Hikaru Nakamura of United States in the fourth round of Norway chess 2013 Super Tournament ...

A suspected double murderer who escaped from a Moscow detention center on Tuesday was caught by police on Wednesday, the Moscow city police authority said. Oleg Topalov was detained by two policemen in Izmailovo Park in northwestern Moscow, a ...

Cuban Grand Master (GM) Leinier Dominguez - playing white pieces - just beat his peer Vesselin Topalov (Bulgaria) in 71 moves of a Sicilian Defense, Taimanov Variation, to win the FIDE Grand Prix Thessaloniki Tournament with 8 points. The Cuban ...

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, ...

The 43 year old Anand has successfully defended his title against Russia's Vladimir Kramnik in 2008, Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in 2010 and Boris Gelfand of Israel in 2012. Anand is also a former World Junior Champion, winning the under-20 title in ...

It was Anand's first win, having earlier drawn against Aronian and Carlsen. Norwaychess.com Related Top Stories Viswanathan Anand registered a crushing win over former World Champion Veselin Topalov with white pieces to move into joint-second place ...

Russian officials say Oleg Topalov used only a spoon to escape from a maximum security prison (Federal Prison Supervision Sky News reports that 33-year-old Oleg Topalov escaped from Matrosskaya Tishina, apparently by using a single spoon to dig a ...

Final Standings (GM all) 1. Veselin Topalov BUL 2771, 8.0/11 2. Hikaru Nakamura USA 2767, 6.5/11 3-4. Ruslan Ponomariov UKR 2733, Fabiano Caruana ITA 2772, 6.0/11 5-6. Gata Kamsky USA 2741, Alexander Morozevich RUS 2758, 5.5/11 7-9. Anish Giri NED ...

The Alekhine Memorial and the were of equal strength but with different end-results. At Zug, Veselin Topalov produced a great 2900-plus performance scoring 8 (+5,=6) from 11 rounds. He was followed by Hikaru Nakamura 6.5, with Ruslan Ponomariov and ...