Viswanathan Anand kept himself in the race for the title by keeping the gap between him and leader Veselin Topalov to just half a point.

Viswanathan Anand and Ruslan Ponomariov played the third King v King ending in the M-Tel Masters Chess tournament on Friday.

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Home favourite Veselin Topalov shocked Viswanathan Anand in a brilliant and aggressive display in the sixth round.

The Indian ace described his opening match in the M-Tel Masters chess tournament as 'one of the best games' he had played against the Bulgarian.

The Indian GM joined Dutchman GM Jan Timman in the lead after the conclusion of the eighth and penultimate round in the Sigeman & Co. chess tournament.

The Indian ace has a three-point lead over his nearest rivals after beating Loek Van Wely in the ninth round.

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.

Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand both lost their last round games.

Garry Kasparov extended his lead over nearest rivals Anand and Topalov to two point at Linares.

The world rapid champion beat Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the second round of the Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.

The defeat saw the Indian slip to joint-third in the Bermuda Invitational chess tournament.

The Indian world junior champion was held by Ukrainian champion Andrei Volokitin in the seventh round of the invitation chess tournament in Bermuda.

The Indian ace registered his third win on the trot to join the lead group at the end of the seventh round of the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament.

The Indian ace beat former World champion Ruslan Ponomariov in the sixth round in the Corus chess tournament.

The Indian ace outplayed Alexander Morozevich in the fifth round of the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament

The Indian ace beat Russian Sergei Rublevsky in the final to win his fifth consecutive Corsica Masters Chess title.

Viswanathan Anand was one step away from his seventh Chess Classic title after crashing \n\nthrough the defences of Spain's Alexei Shirov in the sixth game.

The Indian ace beat Alexei Shirov in the second game of the Mainz Chess Classic.

Top seed Alexander Morozevich of Russia made sure of retaining the title with a round to spare in the Biel chess festival.

The Indian ace assured himself of a berth in the semi-finals after beating Sergei Rublevsky in the Sparkassen chess tournament.

Indian GM Sasikiran beat Yannick Pelletier to go to the top after the sixth round in the Biel International chess festival.

GM Alexander Morozevich of Russia, with 3.5 points from first five games, leads after the fifth round of the Grandmaster section in the Biel International Chess Festival.

The world rapid champion was held by 18-year old German Arkadij Naiditsch in the first round of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting.

The British GM pulled off a scintillating victory over Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan to tie the World chess final 2.5-2.5.

Kasimdzhanov, playing black, easily split points with the second seed in the first game of the World chess championship final.

The Uzbekistan Grandmaster will meet Michael Adams of England in the final of the World chess championship.

The draw gave the Rest of the World victory over Armenia in the Tigran Petrosian chess match.\n\n

Viswanathan Anand led the Rest of the World team to a scintillating 3.5-2.5 victory against Petrosian team on the opening day of the Petrosian Memorial match.

Grandmaster Koneru Humpy beat Ekaterina Kovalevskaya of Russia in the second game to push the match into tie-breaker.

The defending champion scored 1.5 points out of two against Loek Van Wely and joined Vladimir Kramnik and Peter Leko on top of the standings.

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In the final round Anand only needs to draw to retain the Corus Grandmasters Chess title.

The Indian GM demolished Jan Timman in the 11th round of the Corus Chess tournament.

The Indian GM's has seven points, with four wins and six draws with three more rounds remaining at the 66th Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.

Despite the draw, Anand with 6.5 points stretched his lead to a clear full point at the Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.

With five rounds to go, defending champion Viswanathan Anand looks set to retain his title at the Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.

The Indian GM registered his first win with black pieces in the 66th edition of the Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.

The Indian ace drew with Russian champion Peter Svidler and continues to share the lead with four others in the Corus championship.