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World Chess Championship 2012 (video round 11). May 27, 2012. Round 11 video by Vijay Kumar. ... Women's World Rapid and Blitz Championship 2012. The Women's World Rapid and Blitz Championship 2012 will be held from 30th.  

YnetnewsIntensity Cools After 2 More Draws in Chess ChampionshipNew York TimesAfter the fireworks and decisive results of Games 7 and 8, the world chess championship match between Viswanathan Anand, the titleholder, and Boris Gelfand, lapsed back into relative calm as Games 9 and 10 were drawn on Wednesday and Thursday.World Chess Championships: All India Chess Federation fails to cash in on the duelIndia TodayWatch: Gelfand faces Anand in...  

The 2012 World Chess Championship is still tied with 2 games remaining ... IM Irina Krush defeated IM Anna Zatonskih in a rapid playoff to clinch her fourth U.S. Women's Championship title. Krush won the first game handily, and took advantage of time ...  

After the first nine games of the 12 game World Chess Championship, the match is tied.  Both World Champion Vishy Anand of India and his challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel have scored one win, while the remaining games have been drawn.    Gelfand won ...  

Irene to make history after Asian victoryNiken Prathivi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 05/16/2012 11:39 AMIndonesian Woman Grandmaster (WGM) Irene Kharisma Sukandar will become the first Indonesian woman to take part in the Women’s World Chess Championship in 2015 after triumphing at the Asian Continental Chess Championship in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam over the weekend.“Irene attending the women’s world championship is history for Indonesia...  

Game 9 of the World Chess Championship ended in a draw Wednesday, leaving the score between Israeli player Boris Gelfand and reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand tied at 4.5-4.5. Gelfand was playing white, and managed to achieve an advantageous ...  

World Chess Championship 2012: Round 3 UpdatePosted on May 14, 2012 by William in All Articles w/ Videos, Strategy & Game Review, Tournament UpdatesThe 2012 World Chess Championship is taking place in Moscow, Russia on May 11-30 and features two of the best players in the game today: Defending World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand (India) and World Chess Championship Challenger Boris Gelfand (Israel). These two seasoned veterans in the chess...  

The U.S. Chess Championship at the St. Louis Chess Club and Scholastic Center has not disappointed, especially with Hikaru Nakamura pulling out all stops in some spectacular games.  The media coverage has also been impressive -- including video interviews with the players and extensive bios.  With live coverage from various sources, and videos following, I am practically experiencing chess media overload these days -- especially with the World...  

Press releaseRCF launches major children’s programme as part of the FIDE World Chess Championship MatchA special programme for young chess players begins on 14 May at the FIDE world chess championship title match. Two groups of children are arriving in Moscow from the Far East and the Siberian Federal District.This programme has been developed by the Russian Chess Federation in conjunction with the State Tretyakov Gallery with support from the...  

Bobby Fischer, Gary Kasparov – and Boris Gelfand? After beating reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand in game 7 of the World Chess Championship, the Israeli chess player has taken a giant step toward making history and being crowned World Chess Champion.  

US Chess Championship 2012: Kick-Off!Posted on May 10, 2012 by William in All Articles w/ Videos, Strategy & Game Review, Tournament UpdatesThe 2012 US Chess Championship kicked off with a bang yesterday with 5 out of 6 games reflecting a decisive result in the first round. The clear favorite to win the event is US #1 and World #7 rated Hikaru Nakamura, who began with a clean win over rising star Robert Hess. Although Nakamura is only 24 years...  

Hello everyone and welcome to the live coverage of the World Chess Championship 2012 match between Boris Gelfand and Viswanathan Anand on Chessdom.com. Today is the opening ceremony day and we will have a live blog from Moscow that will be updated every 15 minutes.The messages will appear at this article in chronological order, including details of the preparations, statements by famous chess people in Moscow, interesting facts and figures...  

Hello everyone and welcome to the live coverage of the World Chess Championship 2012 match between Boris Gelfand and Viswanathan Anand on Chessdom.com. Today is the opening ceremony day and we will have a live blog from Moscow that will be updated every 15 minutes.The messages will appear at this article in chronological order, including details of the preparations, statements by famous chess people in Moscow, interesting facts and figures...  

European School Chess Championship 2012The European School Chess Championships 2012 will take place in the Conference Center of Athos Palace****, a member of the G Hotels Group in Kallithea, located on the Kassandra peninsula of Halkidiki.Update:The registration for the European School Championships 2012 is in progress. Until 4th May participants from 10 European Countries have registered. Since the World School Championships in Iasi continue...  

If you're looking for something to watch as you wait for the World Championship to start (and don't worry -- I'll have plenty to say about that over the rest of the week), you should be able to enjoy some great chess by keeping up with the 2012 U.S. Chess Championship. This year, the tournaments are back to a rather simple round-robin format, and the two events both have impressive prize funds. The 12 players in the U.S. Championship will be...  

The 2012 Serbian Chess Championship is taking place from 23rd April to 5th May in Vrnjačka Banja. Fourteen players with average elo of 2534 compete in the round robin tournament.After seven rounds of play the defending champion Ivan Ivanisevic emerged on the top position by defeating GM Dejan Pikula. The earlier leader Branko Damljanovic suffered a setback in the game against the former world junior champion Igor Miladinovic and dropped to the...  

Israel's chess grandmaster readies for championshipBy BEN HARTMAN04/09/2012 18:48Rishon Leion's Boris Gelfand trains in Swiss Alps ahead of World Chess Championship match in Moscow.The world of Israeli press could be facing a watershed moment next month, when Rishon Lezion's Chess Grandmaster Boris Gelfand plays for the chess world's top prize at the World Chess Championship in Moscow, according to the General Secretary of the Israel Chess...  

FIDE World Amateur Chess Championship 2012 crowns new championsThe FIDE World Amateur Chess Championship 2012 was held in the 5-star Porto Carras Grand Resort in Halkidiki, Northern Greece from 16 April (1st round) to 22 April (9th round).Haralambos Tsakiris from Kavala, Greece, won his last round direct encounter to claim the title of FIDE World Amateur Champion. The win gives Tskiris the title of FIDE master and a rating of 2200.Second place...  

Russia and Greece lead the World Amateur Chess ChampionshipAfter the 5th round of the 2012 FIDE World Amateur Championship, that is currently under way in Porto Carras, two players are still maintaining the perfect score – Alexander Liberman from Russia and Haralambos Tsakiris from Greece.Bartu Ersoz from Turkey and Claus Riemann from Germany are close behind with 4.5 points each.Results round 5 / Standings round 5 Top round 6 pairings are...  

Livnat Wishes Gelfand Well in World Chess Championship 4/8/2012, Nisan 16, 5772Culture and Sports Minister Limor Livnat hosted Boris Gelfand, Sunday, a little more that a month before his matches against India's Viswanathan Anand for the world chess championship. She thanked the native of Belarus for the respect he has brought the country and expressed hope that she would host him again as the victor. She called Communications Minister Moshe...  

The official website of Anand Gelfand 2012 World Chess Championship match is now available. It is at address http://moscow2012.fide.com/ and contains full details about the accreditation before the match, the rules of the championship, the schedule, players presentation, and more. There is also interesting statistics data from the Anand Gelfand official website here. You can replay the latest games by the World Chess Championship 2012...  

A day after beating reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand in game 7 of the World Chess Championship, Israeli player Boris Gelfand faced his opponent yet again on Monday but lost the eighth set of the 12-part competition. The overall winner in the ...  

McMorrow won by majority decision. “Secretary” helmer nails cast for “The Big Shoe” dramedy The film starring Jim Sturgess and Susan Sarandon follows a gifted shoe designer forced to break free from a family. Former Georgian army general shot dead ...  

Moscow: Victory continues to elude defending champion Viswanathan Anand as the Indian Grandmaster failed to break the deadlock yet again and had to settle for a draw against challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel in the sixth game of the World Chess ...  

World Chess champion Viswanathan Anand (right) and his Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand, play during the FIDE World Chess Championship match at Moscow's Tretyakovsky State Gallery. (AP Photo) But the result was the same, a draw in 27 moves at ...  

Moscow: Victory continued to elude defending champion Viswanathan Anand as the Indian Grandmaster failed to break the deadlock yet again and had to settle for a draw against challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel in the fifth game of the World Chess ...  

Victory continued to elude defending champion Viswanathan Anand as the Indian Grandmaster failed to break the deadlock yet again and had to settle for a draw against challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel in the fifth game of the World Chess ...  

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A third Slav Defence by Viswnathan Anand with black pieces, another theoretical and technical battle — where players played solidly with utmost caution — and it was hardly a surprise that the encounter ended without a decisive result after 29 moves.  

was the refrain of Gary Kasparov when he described the Viswanathan Anand-Boris Gelfand World Chess Championship match after six games. Draws loaded with theory, artificial tension and a conscious effort to stay away from trouble are the ...  

The sixth match of the 2012 World Chess Championship is scheduled for Friday afternoon in Moscow. Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand and defending champion Viswanathan Anand of India have drawn the five games played so far, each accumulating two and a half ...  

World Chess champion Viswanathan Anand from India, contemplates his next move during the FIDE World Chess Championship match against Israeli Boris Gelfand at Moscow's Tretyakovsky State Gallery, Russia. (AP Photo) The score in the 12-game series ...  

The wait wasn’t long for enthusiasts expecting the King Pawn Opening from world champion Viswanathan Anand. Playing with whites in the fifth game, Anand opened with the king pawn for the first time in this 12-game match against challenger Boris Gelfand.  

Indonesian Woman Grandmaster (WGM) Irene Kharisma Sukandar will become the first Indonesian woman to take part in the Women’s World Chess Championship in 2015 after triumphing at the Asian Continental Chess Championship in Ho Chi Minh City ...  

Sports News: MOSCOW: Viswanthan Anand Indian World champion played his fourth draw in the world chess championship against Boris Gelfand of Israel as the deadlock continued in the prestigious contest, here. Playing black for the second time in the match ...  

The fourth game of the ongoing World chess championship at Treyatov Gallery in Moscow was a rather tame affair, in stark contrast to the lively, exciting and entertaining one played in the third round on Monday. The eventual outcome, however, was the same ...  

The fourth game in the world chess championship between Indian GM Viswanathan Anand and Israeli GM Boris Gelfand also ended in a draw at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow on Tuesday. The series is now tied 2-2. After a day’s rest, the fifth game with ...  

World Chess champion Viswanathan Anand from India (right) and his Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand, play during the FIDE World Chess Championship match at Moscow's Tretyakovsky State Gallery. (AP Photo) "Four draws. The match is just developing. We are ...  

After four games of the World Chess Championship match in Moscow, which began on Friday, Viswanathan Anand, the titleholder, and his challenger, Boris Gelfand, have been unable to make a dent in each other. All four games have been draws, and ...  

The world champion picked up the gauntlet and sharp play started where the opponents had to calculate a great number of lines. Gelfand miscalculated one of them: as he admitted, when making his move 14…Qf6, he hadn't ...  

The 19-year-old Negi, who won the Asian title in the Vietnamese capital Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday, will now represent Asia in the World Cup series of events of FIDE from where players advance to the World Championship cycle. Negi is also the third Indian ...  

Though it involves an Indian and an Israeli, the three-week-long World Chess Championship match now going on in Moscow also provides a glimpse of the weird and politically connected Russian chess scene. Attendees at the opening ceremony in the Tretyakov ...  

Hello everyone and welcome to the live coverage of the World Chess Championship 2012 match between Boris Gelfand and Viswanathan Anand on Chessdom.com. Today is the opening ceremony day and we will have a live blog from .... The winner of the World Cup is going to the Candidates Matches, and the winner of the Candidates matches will challenge the winner of Anand – Gelfand. Quite a long way, no? But that makes the World Chess Championship ...  

The 19-year-old Negi, who won the Asian title in the Vietnamese capital Ho Chi Minh City Sunday, will now represent Asia in the World Cup series ... to coach India's women's hockey team. Negi maintain lead in Asian Chess . India's Negi is ...  

World champion Viswanathan Anand contemplates his next move during the FIDE World Chess Championship match against Israeli ... champion should inspire Gelfand for the rest of the 12-game series as he plays white in the second game on Saturday.  

Armenian grandmaster Vladimir Akopian will face off against Denis Khismatullin (Russia) in the 8th round of European Individual Chess Championship in ... Armenia successful at World Team Table Tennis Championships Armenia scored a 3:0 win over Nicaragua ...  

(TOI Photo) Interestingly, Anand figures in most of the novel ... world title match on top of the World Trade Centre in New York in 1995. Though India hosted many world events since 1993, the venues have always been hotels with the emphasis ...  

In November 2012 Khanty-Mansiysk will host also world chess women championship bringing together over 60 international players. Football tickets start at £20 ($32) for adults, with children under 16 able to "pay your age" and over 60s paying as little as £16.  

In November 2012 Khanty-Mansiysk will host also world chess women championship bringing together over 60 international players. Users trying to visit London2012.com will be redirected to Peyvandha.ir which is the official page run by Iranian government.  

Petrosian and Vladimir Poghosyan gained a win in the 6th round of the European Chess Championship underway in Plovdiv ... Armenia to face Morocco at World Team Table Tennis Championships Armenia will face off against Morocco at 2012 World Team Table ...  

PanARMENIAN.Net - The 2nd round of European Individual Men’s Chess Championship was held ... will face off against Morocco at 2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund, Germany. Old Armenian woman trying to smuggle jewelry in underwear ...  

which is the most modern and biggest dedicated chess club in the world. Its players constitute the ‘backbone” of the UAE national team, and as a matter of fact those players have achieved outstanding successes on all levels. Largest in the world?  

That won him a four-year, $68,000 chess scholarship at the University of Texas at Dallas. If he wins the championship this weekend, he'll represent the U.S. at the World Youth Championship in Slovenia in November. Dahl said he likes the game ...  

First, chess is a sport which is played in over 100 countries ... a couple of gala functions would take place and after that we would forget him till he wins his next World Championship, that's how our hero is treated in India. Sometimes, I do ask myself ...  

Louis, MO (KSDK) --The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis are gearing up for the kick off of the 2012 U.S. and Women's Chess Championships on Tuesday ... They also unveiled the world's largest chess piece, thats size breaks a Guinness World ...  

Defending champion Viswanathan Anand showcased fresh preparation as black and got an easy draw against rival Boris Gelfand in the second game of the World Chess Championship now in progress here. Anand equalised easily out of the opening springing a ...  

11.05.2012 – The World Chess Championship was opened in the Tretyakov Gallery on Thursday in spectacular style and with plenty of prominence. There was the playing of anthems, speeches by dignitaries, and the drawing of colours – Anand will play white ...  

The tournament this year has attracted many famous names in chess circles, such as Dao Thien Hai and Tu Hoang Thong of Ho Chi Minh City, Nguyen Anh Dung from Quang Ninh, Cao Sang from Lam Dong and Bui Vinh from Hanoi. However, two strong world players ...  

Viswanathan Anand fought hard but failed to force a win in the third game of his world chess championship match against Boris Gelfand in Moscow on Monday. The draw, third in succession, kept the match on an even keel at 1.5 points each. Anand, however, had ...  

Eight Filipino chess masters will be vying for World Chess Cup slots when the 11th Asian Continental Individual Chess Championships gets underway on Friday in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The 11-day Asian meet which offers a whopping $65,000 cash prize is a ...  

The king piece, which is 14.5 feet high and weighs 2,280 pounds, sits just outside the World Chess Hall of Fame. It was presented to promote the 2012 U.S. Chess Championships, which began on Tuesday and has been hosted by the club for the past four years.  

the World Chess Hall of Fame and U.S. Championship Chess. St. Louis is an area rich in chess history, which will provide a welcoming atmosphere for the SPICE program. Under the coaching of Polgar, the chess team won a total of 15 national, two state and ...  

Viswanathan Anand demonstrated his defensive skills precisely and perfectly to draw against Boris Gelfand in the second game of their World Chess Championship at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow on Saturday night. The score now stands 1-1 after two games of ...  

Andrey Filatov is the initiator and sponsor of the 2012 World Chess Championship Match to be held in Moscow. In May 2011, the Russian Chess Federation supported Filatov's proposal to organize the match in the Russian capital. He actively participates in ...  

Belarus-born Israeli Boris Gelfand goes up against title holder Viswanathan Anand of India in the 2012 World Chess Championship, Friday in Moscow. The 12-match series is scheduled to last until the end of the month. In head-to-head competition, Anand ...  

Still, it is not just a talk show, and he compares Anand to ... Petrosian! The World Chess Championship 2012 is being staged in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, between the current World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and the winner of the Candidates ...  

As Indian ace Viswanathan Anand gears to defend his World Chess Championship title against Boris Gelfand later this month, GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly feels it will be "foolish to underestimate the Israeli". Ganguly, Anand's second in the four-member team ...  

Sports News: Kolkata, Viswanathan Anand Indian ace gears to defend his World Chess Championship title against Boris Gelfand later this month. Indian GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly feels it will be "foolish to underestimate the Israeli". Ganguly, Anand's second in ...  

In addition some wonderful photos by Anastasia Karlovich and Alexey Yushenkov. The World Chess Championship 2012 is being staged in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, between the current World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and the winner of the ...  

The ‘Tiger from Madras’ will take on his contemporary GM Boris Gelfand of Israel in a 12-match world chess championship series that begins at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow on Friday. It will be the first time in recent years that Anand will ...  

March 28, 2012 – Athens, Greece – Following publication of the draft calendar two weeks ago and after evaluating feedback from players and organizers, FIDE and AGON, FIDE's partner for organizing the World Chess Championship Cycle, are pleased to ...  

campaign' and collect one million signatures from school children across the state wishing Anand for his success at the ensuing World Chess Championship match against GM Boris Gelfand," TNCA Secretary K Murali Mohan told UNI, today. "We have already sent ...  

12.05.2012 – It is perhaps symptomatic of chess players more reared ... Champion GM Garry Kasparov and world number-one female player GM Judit Polgar have agreed to judge the best game prizes for the 2012 U.S. Championship & U.S. Women's Championship.  

As Viswanathan Anand gears to defend his World Chess Championship title against Boris Gelfand in late May, GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly feels it will be "foolish to underestimate the Israeli". Ganguly, Anand's second in the four-member team, is leaving for ...  

17.05.2012 Is the Championship in Moscow, without a Russian player, an audience success? Can chess ever be that? Yes it can, as Obama would say. Chief organiser, Ilya Levitov, describes a 21st Century formula to bring chess to a wide audience – and make ...  

The national junior champions will represent the country in the 2012 World Junior Chess Championships in Athens, Greece. The favorites continued to lord it over in age group competitions. Keeping their perfect scores after three rounds were Lennon Hart ...  

It is also known as "Gitler kaput" (really – google it). The World Chess Championship 2012 will be a match between the current World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel, winner of the Candidates tournament. The match will be ...  

in the second match of a three-week tournament in Moscow on Saturday. Gelfand's first match against Anand on Friday in the FIDE World Chess Championship also ended in a draw, which was a good start for the Israeli contender as he played black, which put ...  

CHENNAI: For the first time Vi­swanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand matched wits on the board as youngsters in 1989. They have faced many battles over the board in the last 21 years, with Anand ho­lding a slight edge after 35 ga­mes. However, in Moscow ...  

The World Chess Championship match between holder Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel is underway in Moscow. The first two games of the 12-game match have both ended in a draw, and the third game will take place on Monday. Anand has so ...  

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - It was one of the most brazen moves in the chess world since the Najdorf Sicilian Defense, perhaps even the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit. Fresh off her second straight national championship, the legendary chess coach at Texas Tech is jumping ...  

Watch the full report here The Extreme Chess Championships is created by filmmaker Daniel Meirom, US Chess League founder and International Master Greg Shahade and author and two-time US Women’s Champion Jennifer ... thing in the world in a long time.  

Justus' school was featured on the Rachel Maddow show ("Best new thing in the world ... Chess Championships is created by filmmaker Daniel Meirom, US Chess League founder and International Master Greg Shahade and author and two-time US Women’s Champion ...  

On the Women's side, the undefeated and current champ Anna Zatonskih ... rebounding to win against Varuzhan Akobian in the 3rd round. Meanwhile, the 2012 World Chess Championship between current champ Viswanathan Anand and challenger Boris Gelfand begins ...  

FIDE Master (FM) Haridas Pascua and Woman FIDE Master Jedara Docena will be the country’s representatives in the 2012 World Junior Chess Championships slated on August 1 to 16 in Athens, Greece. Pascua and Docena earned spots to the world meet after ...  

Three countries claimed her: she was born in Moscow, played chess mostly for Czechoslovakia, married an Englishman and died in London. Menchik won the first official women's world championship in London in 1927 and defended the title six times in ...  

This new Guinness World Record beat the previous record ... The piece was unveiled to kick off the 2012 U.S. and Women’s Chess Championships, which take place May 8 through May 20. This is the fourth year in a row the Club has hosted the tournaments.  

THE World Chess Championship 2012 will be a match between the current ... tournaments is currently on-going to determine our representatives in both the Men and Women events. The Bilbao Grand Slam Final Masters, considered one of the world’s most ...  

First, chess is a sport which is played in over 100 countries ... a couple of gala functions would take place and after that we would forget him till he wins his next World Championship, that's how our hero is treated in India. Sometimes, I do ask myself ...  

Express report with GM commentary. The World Chess Championship 2012 is being staged in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, between the current World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and the winner of the Candidates tournament Boris Gelfand of Israel.  

Illustrated report with GM analysis and videos. The World Chess Championship 2012 is being staged in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, between the current World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and the winner of the Candidates tournament Boris Gelfand of Israel.  

India's Viswanathan Anand made the most of a blunder from Boris Gelfand and won his first game at the World Chess Championships, a day after being outplayed by the Israeli. Just as the eighth game was developing into a cliffhanger, Gelfand made a mistake ...  

Express report with multiple GM commentary and videos. The World Chess Championship 2012 is being staged in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, between the current World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and the winner of the Candidates tournament Boris ...  

Express report with tons of GM commentary and videos. The World Chess Championship 2012 is being staged in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, between the current World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and the winner of the Candidates tournament Boris ...  

A lot of beliefs and predictions have already been thrown out of the window. The first was that Viswanathan Anand would outplay Boris Gelfand, the second that two 40-year-old players could not produce riveting chess, and finally, a break has been made from ...  

Express report with GM commentary. The World Chess Championship 2012 is being staged in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, between the current World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and the winner of the Candidates tournament Boris Gelfand of Israel.  

... took secon place in the Age 16 and Under division of the Third Intercontinental Scholastic Chess Team Championship in Oakbrook, Ill. Hosted by 12-time World Champion Grand Master Anatoly Karpov, several teams traveled from Russia to play in the seven ...  

Boris Gelfand drew first blood as he beat the defending world chess champion Viswanathan Anand after 19 years and that too in a World Championships match. Gelfand,43, who had been labelled as underdog, had Anand on the mat in 38 moves and just minutes ...  

Viswanathan Anand was unable to squeeze that extra inch expected from white pieces in the 10th game as it ended in yet another draw, leaving the match tied at 5-5 with two more games to go in the World Chess Championships in Moscow on Thursday. Boris ...  

on Saturday afternoon for Game 11 of the Chess World Championship. The second to last game of series ended with yet another tie of 5.5:5.5. The tenth round of the 12-game championship, taking place at Moscow's State Tretyakov Gallery, ended in a tie ...  

Moscow, May 26 (PTI) Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand today drew the 11th game against challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel as the World Chess Championship heads into a dramatic finish here today. The 24-move draw in the penultimate game under the normal ...  

She received $3,000 and a ticket To the Women’s World Championship. The Filipinos’ campaign is backed up by National Chess Federation of the Philippines chairman/president Butch Pichay Jr. Philippine Sports Commission and the Philippine Olympic Committee.  

The world chess championships are under way in Russia ... Success has been equal for both men and women in India, Koneru Humphry is the country's most accomplished female player, who holds the world number four spot. The opening up of India's economy ...  

Pictures and video will follow, but for now we bring you the game with analysis by GM Romain Edouard. The World Chess Championship 2012 is being staged in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, between the current World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and ...  

one of the world’s top 20. Following the 11th Asian Chess Championship, Vietnam will also host the Southeast Asian championships for various ages, which is scheduled to be held from June 10-19 in the central province of Thua Thien Hue.  

This year’s tournament ... in men’s and women’s individual categories. The annual event, held by the Vietnam Chess Federation, aims to select the most outstanding players for the national team to prepare for upcoming regional and world competitions.  

Similarly, Anand’s rise led to a big chess revolution in India. The only big series the two played was the PCA world chess championship in 2005 when Kasparov defeated a younger Anand. With Kasparov’s subsequent retirement from the game to enter ...  

The story involves a romantic triangle between two top players, an American and a Russian, in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other; all in the context of a Cold War struggle between the United ...  

Anand's World Chess Championship games since 2007 show that he is the only one to have won with black pieces. (AFP Photo) Two big games - on Saturday and Monday - are still remaining in the match. Anand and Gelfand are likely to continue their ...  

23.04.2012 – The build-up to the Anand-Gelfand world championship is in full swing. There is now an official website, and a couple of press releases have been issued. CHESS editor John Saunders takes stock of the the two players, their careers ...  

he received much attention from the international chess world. Vlissingen chess tournament - In August he played the strong Vlissingen chess tournament in the Netherlands. His last round opponent was former FIDE world champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov.  

Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand [ Images] drew the 11th game against challenger Boris Gelfand of Israel as the World Chess Championship heads into a dramatic finish in Moscow [ Images] on Saturday. The 24-move draw in the penultimate game ...  

The World Chess Championship match between defending champion Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand of Israel looks headed for a series of tie-breaker games. That is unless one of the players produces something extraordinary in the remaining two ...  

As we speak, the World Chess Championship is being played in Moscow, Russia, between defending World Champion GM Viswanathan Anand from India and GM Boris Gelfand from Israel for bragging rights on who is to be called the Chess Champion of the ...  

The Associated Press, which is just catching up on the story about Webster capturing the Texas Tech team, notes the city is "already home to the World Chess Hall of Fame and the U.S. national championships. It also has a swanky new chess club ...  

... It’s checkmate at the U.S. Chess Championships in the Central West End. Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, from St. Louis, won his 3rd U.S. Title Saturday. Nakamura is the No. 6 chess player in the world and No. 1 in the U.S. The Chess Club and ...  

He held the FIDE World Chess Championship from 2000 to 2002, at a time when the world title was split. He became the undisputed World Champion in 2007 and defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008. He then successfully defended his ...  

a fact that is always important in the chess world, he added. Bruzón is currently preparing to participate at the National Chess Championship in Cuba, to be held on May 15, and then the Olympics in August in Turkey, to which he will do his best.  

Viswanathan Anand conceded that of late, his results have not been too encouraging, but he is unfazed by the likely impact of his poor form during the forthcoming World Chess Championship. The championship match against Boris Gelfand will be ...  

Over the next three weeks, Viswanathan Anand’s credentials, competence and character will come under the scanner while he chases a fifth world chess championship crown against Israel’s Boris Gelfand. Vijay Tagore previews the showpiece event ...  

This weekend she will join more than 200 other young women at the All-Girls National Chess Championship in Chicago ... fewer are eligible to play at the world-class level and fewer are training in the analytical skills the sport is grounded ...  

It was one of the most brazen moves in the chess world since the Najdorf Sicilian Defense ... In the end, she chose Webster, a former Catholic women's college in a leafy suburb that now has more than 100 campuses worldwide, including many ...  

It was one of the most brazen moves in the chess world since the Najdorf Sicilian Defense ... In the end, she chose Webster, a former Catholic women's college in a leafy suburb that now has more than 100 campuses worldwide, including many ...  

Current world champion Viswanathan Anand of India will be up against Boris Gelfand of Israel in the World Chess Championship, starting in Moscow from Friday. The $2.55 million championship will see 12 games to be played from May 11 to 28 ...  

Alyssa joined the school chess club at Howell’s School at the age of 9 Credit: ITV Wales News Alyssa Wang will be joining the best players in the world to compete as part of the Wales Women's team in ... Youth Chess Championships for the ...  

Alyssa joined the school chess club at Howell’s School at the age of 9 Credit: ITV Wales News Alyssa Wang will be joining the best players in the world to compete as part of the Wales Women's team in ... Youth Chess Championships for the ...  

Gelfand's first match against Anand on Friday in the FIDE World Chess Championship also ended in a draw. The draw was considered as a good start for the Israeli contender as he played black, which put him at a disadvantage. On Saturday ...  

The U.S. Chess Championship, a 12-player elite round robin, fills the entire week, as does the U.S. Women’s Championship with 10 players ... In Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery, the World Championship final match is being contested, India ...  

PanARMENIAN.Net - Following a draw with Russia's Vladimir Malakhov in the 9th round of European Chess Championship in Plovdiv ... Armenia will face off against Morocco at 2012 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund, Germany.  

Rishon Leion's Boris Gelfand trains in Swiss Alps ahead of World Chess Championship match in Moscow.  

Irene had earlier said on Saturday that she would participate in the Women’s World Chess Championship if she won this tournament. (png)