Anand beat Radjabov, jumps to Jt 2nd at Amber

Anand, with a tally of 7.5 points, is just half-a-point behind Armenia’s leader Levon Aronian.

Anand (3.5 points) is tied for the fourth spot with two others in the blindfold section where Kramnik and Magnus Carslen lead with 4.5 points. In the rapid category, Anand (4) and Gata Kamsky are half-a-point behind leader Aronian.

Humpy wins Istanbul Women's Grand Prix

5th M-Tel Masters to be held in Sofia from May 12

For the fifth time Sofia will be hosting the international super chess tournament M-Tel Masters. The competition will take place from May 12 till May 23. The games between the six Grandmasters will be played in a glass pavilion on the square in front of the National Theatre Ivan Vazov

In this year’s edition of the tournament will take part the 19^th Wiorld Champion and leader in the FIDE World Ranking Veselin Topalov, the best young chess player of the last years Magnus Carlsen (№ 3 in the world) from Norway, the 2007 blitz World Champion and winner in last year’s edition of M-Tel Masters Vassily Ivanchuk from Ukraine, the best chess player of Asia Yue Wang from China, Latin America’s strongest player Leinier Dominguez and № 1 of Spain Alexey Shirov, finalist from the World Cup 2007 in Khanty-Mansiysk.

High tension expected at Chess Classic Mainz 2009

Mainz,Germany : Once again the best players in the world will meet in the Rheingoldhalle in Mainz to play the most important rapid chess festival in the world, the Chess Classic begining 27th July-2nd ugust. The world championships in rapid chess and Chess960 will be staged in a tried and trusted double round robin format with four players, after which the players battle it out in mini-matches to determine the top spot. The players for the main events have already been contracted. 

Grischuk is Linares Champion

Anand draws with Grischuk, Ivanchuk beat Aronian

Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, who is the defending Champion of Linares, drew his penultimate round game of the 26th Linares International Chess Meet being played at Ciudad de Linares , Spain. Playing with black Anand  tried hard to overcome Grischuk but could hardly do any thing in the tough opposition from the championship leader. Realising no way out he accepted a draw offer from his opponent.

Vassily Ivanchuk defeated Levon Aronian and  pocketed One full point to take his score to 7.5 points to share the first place jointly with Alexander Grischuk who also took his score to 7.5 points from 13 games.

The other two games Carlsen-Radjabov and Wang Yue and L Dominguez also ended in draws.

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Anand draws again. Carlsen beat Grischuk

Anand held Wang Yue

The World Champion Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand helt Chinese Grandmaster Wang Yue  in a short game of Queens Indian . Playing with Black Anand  did not see any opportunity to continue the game when both came for a dead end and agreed for a draw.

The games between Ivanchuk and Carlsen and Grischuk and Radjabove also followed the same result

Aronian Anand game drawn, Carlsen beat Dominguez

World chess champion and the defending Linares Title holder Viswanathan Anand tried hard to beat his opponent Levon Aronian but could only achieve a draw in the end. Playing again with black Aronian and Anand played their game on the Catalan  opeing varriations. Aronian who beat Carlsen in the 8th round came all prepared for another win but the King of chess Anand did not give him any opportunity to fulfil his wish.

Ivanchuk- Radjabov, Wang Yue - Grischuk games also ended in  draws. The game between Dominguez and Magnus Carlsen took a long time . Materially superior Carlsen playing with Black  attacked the white king and in the end game Dominguez have no where to go but to accept defeat.

Anand draws with Radjabov

World Chess Champion Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand  drew his 8th round game against Teimour Radjabov. Playing with black pieces Anand replied with e 5 to his opponents  e 4 opening. The game was fought on Semi slav varriations. Anand consolidated his position and though he was better placed he could not find any way to win the game. In the end both when Radjabov offered a draw Anand gladly accepted the same.

The games between Ivanchuk - Wang Yue and  Dominguez - Grischuk also ended in draws.However Alexander Grischk continues to lead the Championship after 8th Round

Topalov to Challenge Anand for world title

Topalov's superb performance forced Kamsky to concede on the 45th move, which meant that there was no need for the two to meet for an eight time.

Bulgarian grandmaster Vesselin Topalov won the right to challenge world champion Viswanathan Anand after winning the chess crown pretenders match against American Gata Kamsky on February 26 2009.

Playing with the white pieces, Topalov won the seventh game in his eight-of-best match against Kamsky in Sofia to take the overall score to 4.5-2.5 points.

Anand draws against Grischuk

The World Champion Viswanathan Anand drew his 7th round game of the Linares Grand Slam Chess Tournament  being played in Spainish city of Linares. Playing with white Anand played on the Indian defense Samisch lines and played cautiously against the tournament leader Alexander Grischuk. Both the playes refused to take any risk and once the queens were gone there was not much left in the game and both shook hand to split point.

The only decisive game was played between Levon Aronian and Vassily Ivanchuk.  Right from the begining Aronian somehow failed to see the attacking Ivanchuk and committed one mistake after another  and in the end unable to defend surrender to Ivanchuk.

The other two games were drawn.

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Carlsen Shocked Anand at Linares

World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a shocked defeat against Norwegian prodigy Magnus Carlsen in the sixth round to slump to joint fourth of Magistral Ciudad de Linares hess Slam 2009 . Until Bilbao the Norwegian, having already 'scalped' every other elite player, was never able to defeat Anand. This victory should make him much more confident. Anand is playing very good chess in  this tournament - if it wasn't for his mistake against Aronian he would have been leading at the moment.

Toplaov beat Kamsky, to face Anand in WCC match

GM Veselin Topalov has won the Chess Challengers match in Sofia against GM Gata Kamsky. After 7 games Topalov achieved 4,5 points, which is enough to advance to the next phase.

This gives Topalov  the right to challenge Viswanathan Anand for the World Chess Championship 2009 title. The match will take place this autumn.

Topalov - Kamsky  Challengers Match : Sofia 2009  Result

Game 1 Gruenfeld 1/2:1/2

Game 2 - Ruy Lopez 0:1

Game 3 - Gruenfeld Botvinnik 1/2:1/2

Game 4 - Ruy Lopez Chigorin 1:0 (replay game)

Game 5 - French Tarrasch 1:0

Game 6 - Caro Kann 1/2:1/2

Game 7 - French Tarrasch 1:0

In the 2009 match Anand will defend his title against Veselin Topalov. This will be an attempt for 3rd consecutive World Chess Championship title. He won the 2007 Mexico city tournament and the match in Bonn against Kramnik.

Kateryna- Robert : another Grandmaster Couple

French Grandmaster Robert Fontaine and Ukraine Grandmaster Kateryna Lahno got married in France on 25th Feb 2009. It was a private affair and no one from the world of chess was invited to the wedding except his long time collegue

Anand held Ivanchuk in the 5th Round at Linares

Harikrishna Wins NANCY Chess Festival

Second place was for GM Georg Meier, who did not lose any game, but made six draws to finish with 6,0/9. Third is GM Sebastien Feller with 5,5/9, the same points as GM Krasenkow, but better tiebreak.

The B tournament was won by Ninov and the C by Brethes, both players qualify for the A and B groups of the 2010 tournament.

A total of 19 round robins were played.

Winners

ARONIAN beat Anand at Linares

Anand takes early lead at LINARES

The World Champion and India's Super Grandmaster  Vishy

Anand  has taken an early lead after beating Teimour Radjabov in the first round of this traditional Grand Slam  Super GM tournament in which 8 of the worlds best chess players are competing for the the title and a place in the Bilbao Grand Slam Final to be held also in Spain.

Vishy Anand vs Teimour Radjabov : Game

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