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Koneru Humpy wins Istanbul GP

Indian Grandmaster Koneru Humpy won her final round match and saw other title aspirants dropping down to facilitate her triumph in the first edition of IS Bank Ataturk Women Grand Prix chess tournament.
Humpy and the Chinese duo of Zhao Xue and Yifan Hao shared the lead going into the all-important final round. Of the [...]

Vishwanathan Anand retains world title, draws 11th game

World Champion Viswanathan Anand retained the world crown by taking another draw with challenger Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the 11th game of the world championship match in Bonn on Wednesday.
Playing his final white game against the Russian, Anand forced Kramnik for a draw to win the championship 6.5-4.5.
Anand was in the driver seat even [...]

Anand loses Game 10, still needs draw

World Champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a setback bowing to Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the 10th game of the world championship in progress in Bonn, Germany.
Leading by 6-3 before the start of the 10th game of the much hyped match, Anand failed to perform to his own expectations and went down fighting when Kramnik started [...]

Anand needs a draw to win title

World Champion Viswanathan Anand took another step forward to retain the world crown by taking another draw with challenger Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the 9th game of the world championship match on Sunday.
Anand retained his 3-points lead following the draw with white pieces and is now just a draw away from retaining the crown [...]

Anand closes in on title

In a dynamic endgame, Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik almost repeated their moves to get a draw in Game 8 of World chess championship in Bonn, Germany, on Friday.
The 39-move draw took Anand to just one point away from taking the title in this 12-game match. The Indian leads the Russian 5.5-2.5 now. The [...]

Anand wins 6th game, takes 3 point lead

World champion Viswanathan Anand opened his account with white pieces on Tuesday in the World Championship winning the sixth round game against Vladimir Kramnik and in the process almost closed the door on the Russian winning in 47 moves. He now leads 4.5-1.5.
The seventh game with Anand having black will be played on Thursday after [...]

Anand wins, extends lead over Kramnik

World champion Viswanathan Anand scored his second sensational victory with black against Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the fifth game of the world championship, thus extending his lead to two points.
The victory took Anand to 3.5 points out of a possible 5 and he now leads by a huge 2 points margin. The fact that [...]

Anand out of contention at Bilbao Grand Slam

World Champion Viswanathan Anand bowed out of contention for a top finish in the Bilbao Grand Slam final chess tournament after losing from a better position against Levon Aronian of Armenia in the eighth round.
After suffering his second loss in the tournament, Anand’s number one world ranking also came under threat and unless there is [...]

Anand wins 11th Mainz chess title

Viswanathan Anand outplayed young Magnus Carlsen in the final of the 13th Grenkeleasing Rapid World Championship and thus won the coveted title for a record 11th time.
He is the current world champion in classical chess and considered the world’s best in rapid and blitz, too, Anand won the first two games of the four-game final [...]

Anand wins; takes joint lead

World champion Viswanathan Anand ended the opening day of the Mainz Chess Classic on a positive note defeating Russian Alexander Morozevich to emerge as the joint leader in the Grenkeleasing rapid world championship.
The 10-time winner Anand could do little with his white pieces against Norwegian sensation Magnus Carlsen and world’s strongest ever woman player Judit [...]

Ivanchuk downs Anand in the finals

Indian chessmaster Vishwanathan had to give up the Magistral Ciudad De Leon chess crown when he lost out to Ukranian Vassily Ivanchuk in the finals 2.5 – 1.5.
Ivanchuk had recenty won the MTel Masters before coming to this tournament and has denied Anand of his 8th Leon title.
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“I don’t crave publicity”, : Shahrukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan found himself in the centre of a controversy after a senior Cricket Board official alluded that cricket matches were being used by stars to promote films, but the superstar hit back saying he did not have to depend on others’ platforms to push his films.Khan said he was sad and disappointed over [...]

ANIL KUMBLE to lead men-in-blue in tests

Finally BCCI have got a captain for Indian test cricket team after the refusal by Dravid and Tendulkar .They decided to give this responsibility to Banglore’s engineer  ANIL KUMBLE in the final days of his career.As he has already announced his  retirement from ODIs.
                      KUMBLE who has engineered countless  victory platform for Indian team at [...]

Tendulkar misses it again

Tendulkar acknowledges the applause of the crowd after completing a half-century. He missed the century once again with one run short and this is the third time after recent series against South Africa in England that he was out at 99. The 34-year-old started off cautiously before tearing into the bowling attack with an array [...]

Pakistan Levels Series1-1

                      YOUNIS KHAN’s brilliant century helped Pakistan to snatch a sensational four-wicket victory in the second One-Day International in Mohali on Thursday night.
                 After India rattled up an imposing 321 for 9, with Sachin Tendulkar  stroking 99, Younis slammed 117 as the visitors overhauled the target with one ball to spare in the high-scoring cliffhanger.
Younis [...]

SACHIN SAYS NO

                    Finally Sachin Tendulkar puts down BCCI offer to lead india in test ccricket.A BCCI source said Tendulkar had given his views to the BCCI President and selectors.”I cannot say what prompted him to take such a decision but it is some personal reason. All I can say is that he does not want to [...]

I like Shoib’s aggression ;SANIA MIRZA

Shoaib Akhtar may not have set alight the cricket series yet but the Pakistani speedster has already won an admirer in tennis ace Sania Mirza.Sania, in Chandigarh to watch the second India-Pakistan ODI at Mohali on Thursday, said she liked Shoaib Malik and Shahid Afridi as well but the ‘Rawalpindi express’ stood apart because of his [...]

INDIA starts with a win

                                             The new Indian team with a blend of seniors and young players with aggression and a sense of winning habit is the flavor of the month. As now Dhoni’s team believes more in collective effort than individual contribution to defeat any side in the world. The same solidarity was shown by the men [...]

DHONI guides INDIA to win

A brilliant knock of 63 runs  by sikpper M.S. Dhoni guided India to a comrehensive victory against Pakistan at Nehru Stadium , Guwahati in first ODI of 5 matches series. He came to bat at a crucial stage 113/3, on a pitch where a total of 240 was never easy to chase in fading lights [...]

WE are playing to win:GAMBHIR

                       THE warm-up match against  Pakistan here at Delhi will set some fire in the belly just before electrifying series takes place.Delhi will be handicapped by the abscence of  Virender Sehwag (who is mourning the loss of his father) and pacer Ashish Nehra who is suffering from ankel injury and Ishant Sharma, who is still recovering from the shoulder [...]