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Aravindh Chithambaram stuns GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel in Chennai Open

Grandmaster Vidit Santosh Gujrathi defeated tournament leader and fellow GM Lalith Babu M R moving into shared lead with 5.5 points, after the sixth round of the Chennai Grandmaster International Open Chess tournament held in celebration of the FIDE World Championship Match 2013 at Nehru St

Doping control in Chennai after game 8

DSC_0039The eighth game of the FIDE World Championship Match, sponsored by Tamil Nadu state and currently ongoing in Chennai, finished in draw after 33 moves of play. Carlsen preserved the two points advantage, and with four games to go needs only 1,5 points to become World Champion.

A glimpse of the World Chess Championship 2013 playing area (video)

Susan Polgar presents the playing area and the daily routine for Carlsen and Anand – the road through the elevators, the bathrooms, the rest area and more. Video by Vijay Kumar.

Carlsen with easy draw against Anand in game 7

Anand and Carlsen at the press conference today

Anand and Carlsen at the press conference today

International Grandmaster Open in Chennai – Three players share lead

Grandmaster M R Lalith Babu of India defeated GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel of Armenia and moved into shared lead with 4.5 points, after the fifth round of the Chennai Grandmaster International Open Chess tournament held in celebration of the FIDE World Championship Match 2013 at Nehru Stadium, Chennai here today.

Karpov Rapid Tournament in Chelyabinsk

The Chelyabinsk State University hosted a rapid chess tournament in honour of the 12th World Champion Anatoly Karpov on 16-17th November.

88 players from 16 Russian cities, Kazakhstan, Brazil, Slovakia and Latvia took part in the competition. Among them were 12 Grandmasters.

After 11 rounds of play, Grandmaster Ivan Bukavshin (2612) took a clear first place with 9,0 points.

Grandmasters Igor Lysyj (2640) and Petr Kostenko (2451) and FM Artiom Frolov (2388) shared the second place with 8,5 points each.

Stockfish leads TCEC Stage 4

stockfish-4Stage 4 of the world’s strongest computer chess championship TCEC is entering in it’s final battles. The winner of Stage 4 and the second placed will proceed to the Superfinal to determine the strongest computer engine of 2013.

Zurab Azmaiparashvili runs for the post of ECU President

Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Grandmaster and 1st Deputy Minister for Sports in Georgia, announced at gala dinner in Warsaw his candidacy for the President of ECU in 2014.

He first hinted the possibility during the FIDE Grand Prix in Thessaloniki and later repeated the intention in an interview with Chessdom. Here is the speech of Zurab Azmaiparashvili.

Laxman upsets Popov, shares lead in Chennai Grandmaster Open

Chennai based Grandmaster R R Laxman stunned the top seed GM Ivan Popov of Russia in the second round of the Chennai Grand Master International Open Chess tournament held in celebration of the FIDE World Championship Match 2013 at Multipurpose Indoor Stadium, here today.

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