What he could not achieve during his chess playing days, legendary Garry Kasparov has done now by being included in 'Time 100' list of most influential people for the year 2007.
Sundararajan Kidambi took a giant stride towards his second GM norm by stunning the Armenian Grandmaster in the fourth round of the Dubai Chess Championship.
World champion Viswanathan Anand continued to struggle with his form and settled for a tied third place finish in the Grenkeleasing world rapid chess championship in Mainz.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand has bowed out of contention for a top place in the Grenkeleasing World Rapid Chess championship after being eliminated in the preliminary round.
He routed Teimour Radjabov 2-0 in the second round of the Melody Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand's hunt for the elusive victory continued as he played out fifth draw on the trot, signing peace with Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the fifth round of 5th Final Masters in Sao Paulo.
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A rare queen blunder against Russian Alexander Morozevich cost World champion Viswanathan Anand dearly as he went down in the blindfold game and lost the lead in the 10th and penultimate round of Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament in Nice. The Indian ace drew the return rapid game and remained in contention for top honours even as Levon Aronian of Armenia jumped in to sole lead at the expense of Chinese Wang Yue by a 1.5-0.5 margin.
Vishwanathan Anand settled for a draw Indian men were held 2-2 by Cuba in the 10th round at the Chess Olympiad
Indian men scored a 2.5-1.5 victory over Bulgaria but the women suffered defeat at the hands of Armenia at the Chess Olympiad
He scored a brilliant victory over IM Sergei Simonenko in the eighth and penultimate round of the Dubai International Open.
Abhijeet Gupta scored a thumping victory over Woman Grandmaster Aarthie Ramaswamy at the Dubai Chess Open
The Indian ace settled for a quick draw with Grandmaster Gabrielo Sargissian in the ninth and final round of the Reykjavik International chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand's incredible winless streak continues unabated as the World Champion played out yet another draw with Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan to slip to the joint fifth spot in the Bilbao Grand Slam Final in Bilbao, Spain.
World Champion Viswanathan Anand could not break the ice for the third day running and drew with Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the third round of fifth Final Chess Masters in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Incisive Editor, brilliant scholar on Islam, and now BJP leader, M J Akbar is at his intellectual best when he dissects the Muslim world and its problems, and offers up a solution from his unique perspective, as he did in this recent speech at the 10th R N Kao Memorial Lecture in New Delhi.
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The top seeded Indian was beaten by Jolanta Zawadzka of Poland in the 11th round of the World Junior girls' chess championship.
Woman Grandmaster and top seed Dronavalli Harika came back into reckoning for top honours after beating Sona Petrova of the Czech Republic in the fourth round of the World Junior girls' chess championship.
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Three times in the past 15 years weightlifting officials have wiped out all existing records tainted by drug-taking.
The Indian ace is grouped with young Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany, Peter Svidler and Sergei Reblevsky in the group stage of the tournament.
The Indian Grandmaster played a draw against highly regarded Ukranian in the first game of the second round in the World Chess Championship.\n\n
The Rest of the World team will play Armenia in a chess match to commemorate the 75th birth anniversary of late Armenian world champion Tigran Petrosian.
His old rival Vladimir Kramnik emerged winner in Blindfold and overall sections.
The Indian played two quiet draws with Peter Leko and clinched the top spot in the Rapid section of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Grandmasters chess tournament.
The Indian had mixed luck, losing yet another blindfold game, but then crushed Lev Aronian in the rapid game to extend his lead to a full points in the section after nine rounds.
The Indian ace trounced Peter Svidler to take the sole lead after seven rounds in the rapid section of the Melody Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
International Master Martin Breutigam, a longtime contributor to German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung, accused Topalov of soliciting help from his manager Silvio Danailov through gestures and signals during some of the games.
The World Cup and World Rapid champion beat Miso Cebalo to make the grade in the Corsica Masters.
The 22-year-old Moscovite beat Amelie Mauresmo in the final.
World champion Viswanathan Anand missed chances galore in the blindfold game against Chinese Wang Yue and had to be content with an overall joint-second finish in the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Nice, France. Anand, however, maintained supremacy in the rapid section as he tied with Levon Aronian of Armenia and Gata Kamsky of the United States.
In its citation, the academy said Pamuk, who lives and works in Istanbul, "in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures."
Juan Carlos Ferrero moved smartly into the quarter-finals with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over fellow Spaniard Albert Portas.
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