Norway Chess Blown Open with Anand Beating Hammer & Topalov Losing to Giri in Round 8
June 25, 2015 R K Gupta
Chess, Indian Sport News, Magnus Carlsen, Vishwanathan Anand, World ChessWednesday’s two Round-8 matches have ripped the tournament wide open. Until Tuesday, Topalov looked like sweeping the stakes but on Wednesday, Anand defeated Norwegian Jon Ludvig Hammer and added 1 point to fall right behind Veselin Topalov with a half-point difference. After all his preceding victories in the tournament, the Bulgarian lost to Netherlands’ Anish […]
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Even As World’s Oldest Player, Vishy Anand Still Shows His Mettle at 2015 Norway Chess
June 25, 2015 R K Gupta
Chess, Indian Sport News, Magnus Carlsen, Vishwanathan Anand, World ChessTwo 40-plus gentlemen occupied the top three spots after 7 out of 9 rounds were completed on June 23, 2015 at the Norway Chess tournament. Bulgaria’s 40-year old former world no.1 Veselin Topalov holds the first place with 6 points while India’s Vishy Anand, who is the oldest player in the game at 45 years; […]
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Convincing Victory for Magnus Carlsen in the 2015 Shamkir Chess Tournament
April 28, 2015 R K Gupta
Chess, Magnus Carlsen, Shamkir Chess Tournament, Vishwanathan Anand, World ChessNorway’s World Champion Magnus Carlsen emerged as the runaway winner of the 2015 Shamkir Chess tournament, which concluded on Sunday. In the ninth and final round, Carlsen defeated Azerbaijan’s Rauf Mamedov in 35 moves after Mamedov committed a blunder in the 34th move. Carlsen has thus retained the title he won in the inaugural edition […]
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Anand Wins Eighth Round As Well, Now Half-Point Behind Carlsen in Shakir
April 26, 2015 R K Gupta
Chess, Indian Sport News, Magnus Carlsen, Shamkir Chess Tournament, Vishwanathan Anand, World ChessAs the last and ninth round to come up on Sunday, Viswanathan Anand of India recorded another victory to be just half point behind table-topper Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the 2015 Shakir Chess Tournament at Azerbaijan. Anand took full advantage of playing with White Pieces and showed solid temperament in his match against the […]
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Anand Scores Second Victory in the 7th Round of 2015 Shamkir Chess Tournament
April 25, 2015 R K Gupta
Chess, Indian Sport News, Magnus Carlsen, Shamkir Chess Tournament, Valdimir Kramnik, Vishwanathan Anand, World ChessPlaying with whites against Michael Adams of England on Friday, Viswanathan Anand crashed through the defenses of the Englishman to jump to the sole second spot in the 2015 Shamkir Chess tournament. On Thursday, however, the Indian chess ace could not get through against Azerbaijan’s Rauf Mamedov and settled for an easy draw with Blacks […]
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Victory for Vishy Anand in the Fifth Round of Shamkir Chess Tournament
April 22, 2015 R K Gupta
Chess, Indian Sport News, Shamkir Chess Tournament, Vishwanathan Anand, World ChessOn an absolutely amazing day in Shamkir, there were three decisive games with the charms of their own. After drawing with his opponents in the first four rounds, Vishy Anand scored his first win with a brutal new idea in the Spanish, sacrificed a piece and won against a surprised So. In another game, world […]
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Fourth Consecutive Draw for Vishy Anand Makes Things Tight for the Indian at Shamkir Chess Tournament
April 21, 2015 R K Gupta
Chess, Indian Sport News, Shamkir Chess Tournament, Vishwanathan Anand, World ChessOn Monday April 20, 2015, Indian Chess Ace Viswanathan Anand drew with old rival Vladimir Kramnik of Russia. The result follows his third drawn game with Netherlands’ Anish Giri on Sunday. In one of the strongest chess tournament of the year, four draws take Anand’s tally of score to 2.0 but with other competitors scoring […]
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Anand Draws Again With Black, Carlsen Lone Winner On 2nd Day at Shamkir
April 19, 2015 R K Gupta
Chess, Indian Sport News, Magnus Carlsen, Shamkir Chess Tournament, Vishwanathan Anand, World ChessIn the second round matches of Shamkir Chess tournament on Saturday, four matches ended as drawn games. One among them involved Indian Grand Master Viswanathan Anand, who played with black pieces against Frenchman Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. After being let off the hook by Anand, Norway’s world champion Magnus Carlsen was the only one, who emerged victorious […]
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Vishy Anand Allows Magnus Carlsen to Go Scot-Free in the First Round of Shamkir Chess Tournament
April 18, 2015 R K Gupta
Chess, Magnus Carlsen, Shamkir Chess Tournament, Vishwanathan Anand, World ChessIn Friday’s first round of the Shamkir Chess Tournament, Indian Grand Master Viswanathan Anand missed a golden opportunity presented to him by World Champion Magnus Carlsen, who made an unforced error in the middle game. For a long time, Anand enjoyed a pawn plus position but the plucky Norwegian hung on and not only deprived […]
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Impressive Vishy Anand Loses Zurich Chess Challenge in Armageddon
February 21, 2015 R K Gupta
Chess, Vishwanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, World ChessPlaying after his woeful performance in Baden Baden, Viswanathan Anand bounced back to play like his old confident self at the Zurich Chess Challenge Tournament that concluded on February 19, 2015. The tournament had a field of six players; Vishy Anand, Hikaru Nakamura, Vladimir Kramnik, Sergey Karjakin, Levon Aronian and Fabiano Caruna. The Indian came […]
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| # | Player | Point |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viktor AXELSEN | 72,500 |
| 2 | CHOU Tien Chen | 67,190 |
| 3 | PRANNOY H. S. | 66,730 |
| 4 | Jonatan CHRISTIE | 64,960 |
| 5 | Anthony Sinisuka GINTING | 62,100 |