Anand - Karpov rapid chess match at CORSICA OPEN

The match to take place between the Valencia and Paris matches of Kasparov and Karpov

The World Champion, the lndian Vishy Anand, will face the ex World Champion, the Russian, Anatoly Karpov in a rapid match in France. The event will take place in two different cities. The players will start at Bastia on October 31th and later continue in Ajaccio on November 2nd.

All games will be with time control 15 minutes + 3 seconds per move. This will be yet another major rapid match for Karpov. He has matches against Kasparov in Valencia in September, and later in Paris in December. On the other hand, the rapid games will be a good practice for Anand in case of a tiebreak in the World Chess Championship 2010 match with Topalov.

The match will be held parallel to the Corsica Masters, that will be played in Bastia. It features over 40 000 eur in cash prizes.

As part of the Corsica Masters, Vishy Anand and Anatoly Karpov will hold a simul.

World Blitz in Moscow - Anand, Aronian, Carlsen, and Kramnik top seeded

The World Blitz will take place after the Tal Memorial, completing a series of very strong events in Russia for this year. The playing site is Moscow, and the blitz championship dates are 16-18.11.2009. The field includes 20 grandmasters. Top seeded is the World Champion Viswanathan Anand, who will be joined by two other ex world champions - Vladimir Kramnik and Anatoly Karpov. The young talents Carlsen, Gashimov, and Mamedyarov will try to edge out the experience. The Moscow blitz champion Grischuk and his runner ups Karjakin and Morozevich will be there as well.

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KRAMNIK WINS JUBILEE RAPID

Kruttika Qualifies for World Cup

Anand gets third spot at World Rapid Mainz

After World Champion Vishy Anand failed to qualify for the final of the GRENKELEASING Rapid World Championship Levon Aronian was clear favorite to win the title against the Ian Nepomniachtchi. And indeed, the Armenian had no trouble to become Rapid World Champion. In fact, the biggest surprise of the final might have been the smooth way in which Aronian won.

World Champion Anand, however, made his fans wonder. Apparently he did not manage to overcome the bad shape he had shown in the preliminaries and his play in the match for place three against Germany number one Arkadi Naiditsch was strangely uninspired and lacked punch. But maybe the explanation was much simpler. "Well, as there is not that much at stake in the match for third place, it is very difficult to motivate oneself", he later explained at the press conference.

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Disastrous Start by Viswanathan Anand in Chess Classic World Rapid at Mainz

Defending his title for the 12^th time, Anand started disastrously . Playing with White against Aronian he used an unusual amount of time in the opening – which, however, seemed to be well invested: But things became a   bit complicated  as the game progressed and his game went astray resulting in his first loss.This was Anand first ever defeat in the world Rapid Championsh he has played so far. His second game against Ian Napomniachtchi also went the same way.

In the second round ,Anand faced young Russian Nepomniachtchi who  opted for the sharp Poisoned Pawn variation of the Najdorf Sicilian . Anand, however, failed in his strategy and lost

However Anand scored his first win in the last game of this double round Qualifying all play all – which he bitterly needed to keep up his hopes to qualify for the final.   Anand spoke to Sports Hour after the match

Najer and Fontain share First Place at Paleohora International

Arghyadip Das stuns Stefanova at Paleorova Chess Meet 2009

International Master Arghyadip Das caused another flutter and added former world women's champion Antoaneta Stefanova to his list of casualties. The Kolkata youngster moved to six points out of a possible eight and remained in contention for his second Grandmaster norm for which he needs to win the last round game.

The Indians had a reasonable day as Grandmaster and world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta scored a hard fought victory and Grandmaster Tejas Bakre also romped home in quick time.

International Master in making, Sahaj Grover made a few errors but was lucky to end on the  Winning side.

Glek Igor takes Sole lead, Indians right behind at Paleohora Chess Meet

Paleohora, Island of Crete,Greece 24^th July 2009.  GM Glek Igor emerged sole leader after winning the  fifth round of the 2^nd Paleohora International Chess Championship being held in the Crete Island of Greece. Till the fourth Round as many as 8 players were jointly leading the championship. Top Seed  2008 World Open Champion Evgeny Najer  is right behind Igor on 4.5 points from 5 outings.

India’s claim to the title  is spearheaded by  World Junior Champions GM Abhijit Gupta and IM D Harika on 4 points each. They will however meet against each other in the 6^th Round.

GM Tejas Bakjre again drew his game but is confident to finish in the first 5. Delhi’s

FM Sahej Grover , who lost his 4^th round game played cautiously in the fifth round and won the game.

Ukraine’s  GM Kateryna Lahno, somehow managed not only to save her game but played an excellent end game to defeat   his opponent. She will meet India’s IM Arghyadip Das in the 5^th Round

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Leko- Anand Rapid Match Highlights on DD Sports Channel

Indian Television's Sports Channel DD SPORTS will telecast Four Exclusive Highlights of Peter Leko - Viswanthan Anand rapid match held at Miskolc, Hungary. The Video Highlights, directed by Vijay Kumar, will be telecast as under:

1st Episode on Monday - 13th July at 10.30 p.m IST [ 1900 hrs European Time]
2nd Episode on Tuesday - 14th July at 10.30 p.m
3rd Episode on Wednesday - 15th July at 10.30 p.m
4th Episode on Thursday - 16th July at 10.30 p.m

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The telecast will be available on FREE TO AIR in Europe, Middle East and South East Asia on PAS 10 Satellite as under:

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1. FRE : 4034 Mhz
2. POL : V [ vertical ]
3. FEC : 3/4
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MICHAEL JACKSON PLAYING CHESS WITH HIS SON

ANAND NOT TO PLAY AT NANJING: Substituted by LEKO

The change means that the chess fans will not be able to see direct games by the WCC 2010 competitors Topalov and Anand. Still, the tournament is going to be one of the strongest for the year. Here is the participants list, all other details previously published are valid.CHESSDOM

Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria)
Magnus Carlsen (Norway)
Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan)
Dmitry Jakovenko (Russia)
Peter Leko (Hungary)
Wang Yue (China)

Asian Continental Chess Meet on DD SPORTS CHANNEL

Rustom Wins Gulf Monsoon Scooter Rally

The Annual GULF Monsoon Scooter Rally 2009 took place in Mumbai on Sunday 28TH jULY 2009 . 31 DARE DEVIL SCOOTER RIDERS WITH FMSCI Licenses took their scooters thru slush in the Navi Mumbai wilds. Organised by Shrikant Karani's SPORTSCRAFT and sponsored by GULF OIL CORP LTD, the Traditional winner of the Rally Manjeet Singh had a fall during the 2nd round which cost him the Over All Winners Title.

DD Sports Channel will telecast Highlights of this Rally on 7th July 2009 from 7.30 p.m

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PRESIDENTS CUP : World Team Vs Azerbaijan Team Highlights on DOORDARSHAN

Anand wins Chess Oscar for 2008

Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand wins, as in 2007, the Chess Oscar for best player of the year 2008. Anand got  126 votes from 36 countries of chess journalists

Anand is Rapid Champion

World Champion Viswanathan Anand won the rapid match against Hungarian top player Peter Leko with the final score 5-3. The match of eight games with 25 min + 10 sec time control took place on 3-7th June in Miskolc.

After four games and going into the rest day Vishy Anand held a minimal 2.5-1.5 lead. He opened the second match half with another win, in the fifth game, in Gruenfeld Indian defence, only this time with Black pieces. The remaining three games were hard-fought draws. The match was almost thematic, with Gruenfeld Indian and Meran Slav appearing regularly, and only in the final game Leko switched to 1.e4 allowing us to see a Caro-Kann.

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Leko Anand to play Rapid Match at Miskolc

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