Viswanathan Anand settles for draw against Vladimir Kramnik

Checkmate? Indias world champion Viswanathan Anand and Russias Vladimir Kramnik play during a round 6 game of the Alekhine Memorial chess tournament in St. Petersburg on Sunday. The tournament is a 10-player single round competition, with the first half held ...

The elite of the chess world will be among the participants, including Russian GM Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Gelfand from Israel, and Chinese GM Ding Liren.

Vladimir Kramnik, former world chess champion and one of the Candidates who was in race to challenge Viswanathan Anand for the world title, believes the Indian Grandmaster has a chance to beat Magnus Carlsen in the world championship match later this year if ...

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 ...

Armenian GM Levon Aronian defeated Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in Round 2 of the Alekhine Memorial in Paris. Aronian has 1 point after Round 2. Michael Adams (UK) defeated Peter Svidler of Russia. Adams had 2 points and is the tournament leader at ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian beat Russia's Vladimir Kramnik in the 2nd round of Paris-hosted Alexander Alekhine Memorial. UK's Michael Adams is leading the tournament with 2 points, followed by France's Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ...

Moscow: 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. 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 ...

Playing after the first rest day, Anand got something to play for but his last world championship challenger was also up to the task in defense and the draw was a just result. Anand elevated himself to joint fourth spot in standings moving to two ...