The Indian ace settled for two draws with GM Alexei Shirov to maintain a one point lead after the second day of the Mainz Chess Classic.
The victory put the Indian Grandmaster back in joint-lead in the Montreal chess tournament.
Armenia beat the Rest of the World in the penultimate round of the Tigran Petrosian chess match.
P Harikrishna won, Surya Sekhar Ganguly drew and K Sasikiran lost in their second game of the second round match.
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Topalov, with his unsurpassable score of 9.5 points from 13 games has emerged the New World Chess Champion, 2005.
Grandmaster Vladimir Epishin emerged sole leader in the Hastings chess tournament.
The victory put the Indian in sole lead at the end of the fourth round in the Morelia-Linares chess tournament.
Nine players share the lead after the second round in the 41st National 'A' Chess Championship.
The Asian women's champion made sure of the title after the penultimate round in the tournament.
The Indian scored 8.5 points in all with 7 victories against Alexander Motylev, who finished second with 7.5 points
The World junior champion beat GM Wang Hao to stretch his lead by 1.5 points at the end of the 5th round in the Sanjin Hotel Cup Grandmasters tournament.
The Chennai-based player will get his final norm on Thursday when he plays GM Jonathan Rowson, irrespective of the result.
Hungarian Zoltan Almasi won the Marx Gyrogy memorial tournament, while Viktor Korchnoi finished second.
Grandmaster Gabriel Sargissian of Armenia won the Abu Dhabi Chess festival, finishing half a point ahead of four rivals.\n
The world junior champion finished sixth following a draw with Lenier Dominguez of Cuba in the ninth and final round of the Dos Hermanas International Chess tournament.
Grandmaster Sherbakov Ruslan IM Neetlopal Das and IM R B Ramesh lost while playing with white pieces in the Commonwealth chess championship.\n\n\n\n
The defeat saw the joint-leader slip to joint 10th after the sixth round in the Gibtele.Com chess festival in Gibraltar.
The two players are leading the table with four points each after four rounds of the World Junior Chess championship.
'India's gambit is truly the venture of this century,' says Mira Kamdar.
The draw gave the Rest of the World victory over Armenia in the Tigran Petrosian chess match.\n\n
The Indian woman GM beat Maka Purtseladze of Georgia and moved to joint-second position after the penultimate round in the World Junior Girls' Chess Championship.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly joined GM Nigel Short of England at the top of the table after the penultimate round in the Gibetelecom Masters International Open chess tournament.
The two Indian Grandmasters played out a fighting draw amongst themselves to remain in joint lead after the third round of Gibraltar Chess Congress.
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 Indian ace shares the top place with China's Gu Xiaobing after the third round in the Asian women's chess championship.
Ramesh comfortably edged out top-seeded GM Koneru Humpy on a better tie-break.
One wonders whether the Communists in India are still at their old game: ostensibly nurturing democracy (in Nepal) but in reality waiting for the right moment and the right circumstances to launch an armed bloody revolution in India via Nepal with the backing of China.
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