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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 […]

Dhoni to be awarded Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

India’s One-day and Twenty20 cricket captain MS Dhoni will be awarded the country’s highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.
He becomes only the second cricketer after Sachin Tendulkar to be given the honour. Tendulkar won the award in 1997-98.
Dhoni led India’s Twenty20 team to a memorable win at the World Cup in South […]

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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