The Indian ace now trails Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan 1.5-0.5 after the second game of the Rapid World Championship.
The Indian GM beat Francisco Vallejo Pons to keep joint lead in rapid chess event of the Amber tournament
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After winning the first game, India's World junior champion drew the second of the two-game mini match in Lausanne Young Masters International Chess tournament .
World champion Viswanathan Anand thumped Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine in the blindfold and won his sixth round game 1.5-0.5 in the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess tournament in Nice. With five rounds still to go, Levon Aronian of Armenia is at the top of the combined points table on 7.5 while Anand is now close behind with seven points in his kitty.
Garry Kasparov extended his lead over nearest rivals Anand and Topalov to two point at Linares.
Indian GM Sasikiran beat Yannick Pelletier to go to the top after the sixth round in the Biel International chess festival.
The World Cup champion drew with Alexander Grischuk and Alexei Shirov in his first two matches in the in World Rapid Chess Championship.
Anand drew with Spaniard Francisco Pons while Kasparov lost to Teimous Radjabov of Azerbaijan in the Linares chess tournament.
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Third seeds China won the junior girls' title with an upset victory over India 'A', while top seeds India 'A' won the junior boys' crown, in the US $8000 Reliance India Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis Championships, at the NSCI-Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel stadium in Mumbai on Thursday.
The tracing of internal dimensions of Dr Singh's visit to Arunachal by the Chinese experts (pressure from the Indian military and the need to 'balance' the moves of anti-China hawkish sections in India) seems to reflect China's doubts over the likely impact on the border talks coming from future political equations in India, especially in the context of general elections due in that country next year.
Rude defeats for World champion Viswanthan Anand and fellow Grandmaster Koneru Humpy summed up a pathetic day for the Indians in the first round of Corus Chess tournament.
The Indian ace drew with Russian champion Peter Svidler and continues to share the lead with four others in the Corus championship.
Lu Shanglei of China defeated Aleksander Indjic of Serbia and was crowned World junior chess champion at Hotel Hyatt, in Pune, on Sunday. In the girls' section, 16-year-old Alexandra Goryachkina successfully defended her title with a round to spare on Saturday.
Viswanathan Anand kept himself in reckoning for his sixth title on the trot.
The Indian ace maintains a slender lead going into the final round in the Amber chess tournament.
The world champion took the sole lead after playing a couple of draws with Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the third round of the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament. Anand took his combined tally to four points and is now half a point ahead of nearest rivals Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, Levon Aronian of Armenia, Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Topalov who all have 3.5 points apiece.
The victory placed the Indian ace in joint second position in the Amber chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand emerged clear third after the 11th round of the World chess championship.
The victory enabled the Indian ace narrow the gap between him and tournament leader Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the Corus chess tournament.
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy beat Ekaterina Kovalevskaya of Russia in the second game to push the match into tie-breaker.
The India ace avenged his World championship defeat, winning his seventh round match in the Corus tournament in 34 moves.
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The Indian ace beat Alexei Shirov in the second game of the Mainz Chess Classic.
Viswanathan Anand cruised past Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine with a fine performance in the rapid game in the 14th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament.
Despite the draw Anand maintained a half point lead in the Corus Chess tournament.
The Indian ace beat Judit Polgar in the last two games to win the Mainz Classic 5-3.
With two more rounds remaining, both Anand and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia have amassed six points from their ten games.
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Tne Indian ace beat World champion Ruslan Ponomariov while Kramnik accounted for Judit Polgar in the quarter-finals of the World Rapid Chess Championship.
The second seeded GM beat Lenier Dominiguez of Cuba in his fifth round match in the 18th North Sea Cup.
Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the ninth and penultimate round of the Bilbao Grand Slam chess tournament to stay joint fifth. With his seventh draw in nine games Anand, playing with white, took his points tally to seven points in the soccer-like scoring system with just one round to come in the super-category tournament.
What can be expected from Pranab Mukherjee's visit to China? With full details of the agenda not open to the public, a clear picture may not be available at this juncture. It can be said, however, that a breakthrough on the boundary issue seems very unlikely, as the two sides appear to have failed so far in finalising a 'framework' for the settlement.
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