Kosteniuk-Yifan in WWCC Final

While Alexandra Kosteniuk needed only two regular games to pass on to the finals, the Indian and Chinese players had to battle the tiebreaks to settle the second finalist.. Koneru and Yifan exchanged wins in rapid games, but then the Chinese prodigy won both blitz games and eliminated the top-rated participant from the tournament.

Anand draws yet again

In the penultimate round of the Bilbao Grand Slam Finals being played in the Basque area of Bilbao, Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand had a quick draw against Championship leader Veselin Topalov

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Humpy Equalises takes Yifan to Tie break

Koneru Humpy , after loosing the first game to Yifan, fought like a tigress in   the 2nd game to defeat her opponent and take her to Tie Break

Humpy came out with a slight advantage from the opening phase but could not find a strong continuation although she had to win after the loss of yesterday. Her Chinese opponent pushed the pawn to d5 and gave a chance for exchanging the light pieces which could have been a nice way for a possible draw. Koneru avoided the full exchange and took the risky Bb5 move after which her position started to gradually loose momentum and deteriorated.

Hou Yifan made a blunder with Na5, thus the position provided the chance for White to mate in 8 moves and Hou resigned after a few more moves.

Aronian beats Anand at Bilbao Grand Slam

All the three Games were decisives. Two wins for white and One for Black. World Champion Viswanathan Anand  failed again to save his game against Levon Aronian and in a long battle finally surendered when his king got traped between  Aronian's Queen and Rook.

Yifan beat Humpy at Nalchik WWCC

Training Camp at Chennai for Dresden Olympiad

The Dresden bound Indian men and women teams are undergoing training camps at Chennai (men) and Delhi (women). This is the second camp and the first one was held at Banglore and Calicut from 05^th to 20^th June, 2008 .

Grandmasters Krishnan Sasikiran (TN), P. Harikrishna (AP), Surya S Ganguly, Sandipan Chanda (both Ben), G.N. Gopal (Ker) are attending the camp under the watchful eyes of Grandmaster LevPsakhis.

Women Grandmasters Dronavalli Harika (AP), Tanis Sachdev (Del), Nisha Mohota, Mary Ann Gomes (both Ben), Swati Ghate (Mah) are attending the camp at New Delhi. Grandmaster Elizbar Ubilava is incharge at New Delhi.  The coaching camps are under senior reputed grand masters Lev Psakhis of Israel and Elizbar Ubilava of Georgia.

Arvind Aaron spoke to Harikrishna , Sasikiran and their coach Lev Psakhis at Chennai

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Anand Slips to Joint 5th at Bilbao

Magnus Carlsen and Veselin Topalov, who have been leading the championship committed serious blunders in their respective games and lost .While Indias's Super Grand Master Viswanathan Anand ,yet again failed to get  a win and had to agree for a draw despite having his two Knights excellently placed on the important squares.

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An INTERVIEW WITH HUMPY

Indian Grandmaster  Koneru  Humpy has the highest rank at the Women's World Chess Championship which got under way in Nalchik. She played a magnificent game in the first round of the tournament and qualified to the third one having missed the second round because her opponent from Georgia had not shown up. After beating  Shen Yang in the Quarter Finals she will now be playing Hou Yofan in the Semifinal .Chessdom  talked to her on one of her free days

Carlsen beat Aronian,Takes Lead at Bilbao

Round 6 started with more than half-an-hour delay because of problems with the air-conditioning in the glass cube.

There was not much fight in Ivanchuk vs Anand: the two oldest participants made a very calm draw.

Topalov vs Radjabov saw a long fight. Topalov had a promising position in the middlegame, but in the end it was Radjabov who played for a win for a few dozen moves. Carlsen defeated Aronian, using a spectacular novelty - and took the lead, thanks to the Bilbao scoring system (Carlsen has three wins and one loss, which is better than Topalov's two wins with no losses).

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Humpy in Semi Final of WWCC

Humpy amongst 8 left in WWCC

Koneru Humpy and Pia Cramling made a good start in the Women World Chess Championship quarterfinals by winning against Shen Yang and Antoaneta Stefanova respectively. The other two games were drawn.

Koneru's game started as a rather modest Slav Exchange variation, which scores many draws on the Grandmaster level, but with one difference - White held a pair of Bishops. The Indian masterfully engineered an attack on the king side, and exactly these two soldiers imposed huge damage in Shen Yang's camp . This swift victory puts Koneru in excellent position before the tomorrow's return match, but let's not forget that Shen was already trailing behind Nadezda Kosintseva and succeeded to win the tiebreaks.

Bilbao:Carlsen beat Aronian, Vishy held Ivanchuk

After a  Day's Rest , The Players were back in action, however the games were delayed due to some technical fault in the Airconditioning.

Anand , playing with black against Vassily Ivanchuk could able to held his opponent and accepted a  draw  realising no way out.

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REST DAY For Players at BILBAO

GM Susan Polgar discussing Magnus's game with Carlsen's Father

After a marathon of 5 rounds the players were given an off day from the games. However the organisers decided to take the journalists and the guests on a Cruise on the Rio de Bilbao River,

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Drawn Games in Round 5 at Bilbao

Anand is far from his best form and  yesterday’s loss to Topalov  in 25 moves put him in the last place. That is not something the World Champion can allow himself to continue, so he should give a real fight in the remaining games.

 Carlsen has difficulties playing against the Indian and his score is quite negative. Nevertheless, he showed great progress and did not allow his opponent in the 5^th Round to over shadow him. Anand's bad form was visible for   at least twice he simply miscalculated, but his experience helped him a second miraculous escape - the first against Ivanchuk. Carlsen could only be sorry for the several inaccuracies in opponent's time trouble that let his advantage slip away. The game ended in a draw

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Topalov beat Anand in just 25 moves

World Champion Viswanathan Anand , playing with black could not face a determined Bulgarian former World Champion Veselin Topalov and unable to defend surrendered in just 25 moves. This is Anand’s first defeat at Bilbao.

The other two games were also decisive and Carlsen who lost yesterday to Veselin Topalov, defeated Teimour Radjabov in  just 37 moves while Levon Aronian defeated  Vassily Ivanchuk

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Anand Draws again, Slips to Joint Third at Bilbao

Three rounds have passed from the final Grand Slam competition - Bilbao Final Masters. According to the new pointing system applied at the competition Topalov is leading with 5 points, followed by Carlsen with 4, Anand, Ivanchuk, and Radjabov with 3, and Aronian with 2. Applying the old system, however, Carlsen, Anand, Ivanchuk, and Radjabov are all equal with 1,5 points.

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Day of drawn Games at Bilbao,Carlsen Leads

On the 2nd  day of the  Grand Slam Final being played here in Bilbao's Main Square under Glass Covered venue where all the three games ended in draws. Anand  Magnus Carlsen  and Topalov drew thier respective games against Radjabov  Ivanchuk and Aronian respectively and earned 1 point each in this new scoring pattern championship where a win gets 3 points to the winner and a draw give one point to each player.

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Indian Youth Team wins World Youth Chess Olympiad

Grand Master R.B. Ramesh coach of the Indian Youth team which won the World Youth Chess Olympiad at Mersin, Turkey spoke to Arvind Aaron on arrival at the Chennai airport on Aug 26, 2008

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Humpy Seeded No 2 at WWCC at Nalchik

TAL MEMORIAL : Morozevich beat Kramnik

In the key game of the third round Alexander Morozevich defeated Vladimir Kramnik , and took the lead.Another decisive game of the round was Alexei Shirov's third straight loss -this time to Peter Leko.