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World champion Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with Boris Gelfand of Israel in the ninth and final round to finish third in the Alekhine memorial chess tournament in St Petersburg, Russia. Playing the black side of a Semi-Slav, Anand got nothing to push for as Gelfand played solidly for one of his best performance ever. The Israeli ended as joint first along with Levon Aronian of Armenia who defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagraev of France in his final game. In the other games of the day, Nikita ...

Baku, May 6 (AzerTAc). Chess grandmasters Vishy Anand and Magnus Carlsen will lock horns in a world championship match in Chennai, India, in November as the International Chess Federation and All India Chess Federation agreed

Chennai, Apr 8 (UNI) The World Chess Championship between five time champion Vishwanathan Anand of India and World Number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway would be held in Chennai from November 6 to 26. This was announced by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J ...

For 44 years, GR Viswanath held the record for the highest score by an Indian on debut. On March 16, Shikhar Dhawan stunned the world with an innings that took him past the legendary Karnataka batsman. It would seem like Dhawan, who in the process of that ...

Armenia's World No.2 Levon Aronian and World Chess Champion Vishy Anand will take part in the Alexander Alekhine Memorial Tournament to be held jointly in Paris and St. Petersburg, Chess Federation of Armenia said Wednesday.The tournament will take place from ...

Kramnik, who was a world champion for seven years, believes that age and motivation are the biggest advantages for Carlsen against Anand.

Anand went down with white pieces, something that might be detrimental to the Indians campaign as the tournament progresses further.

The London tournament that chose world champion Vishy Anands next challenger is being hailed as the most exciting and hard-fought chess event in recent memory. It has been maybe the best ever Candidates tournament in history, Anand told the Indian ...

The world's top-rated chess player Magnus Carlsen of Norway qualified from the Candidates tournament in London to challenge the reigning champion Vishy Anand of India in the world championship match in the fall of this year. Carlsen, 22, won in the ...