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Vladimir Kramnik unseats Kasparov for Braingames title
25-year-old Vladimir Kramnik, from
Tuapse, Russia achieved his life time ambition by winning the 14th
World Chess Championship. Kramnik won games 2 and 10 and drew the
rest to take the crown at the Braingames World Chess Championship,
London...
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Vijayalakshmi wins topboard silver,
Sasikiran and Kunte excel
Russian men with 38.0
points and Chinese women with 32.0 points retained their titles in
the 34th Chess Olympiad at Istanbul, where Indian men finished a
creditable tie for the 7-13 places with a total score of 33.0
points ...
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Vishy
Anand beats Drazic for rapid title
India's World No.2 Vishy Anand
sparkled winning the 32 player Corsica Master 2000 Rapid chess
tourney running through the field that included seasoned
Grandmasters Chernin, Onischuk, Nisipeanu, Wojtkiewicz etc., held
at Bastia, Corsica ...
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Bruzon and Xu Yuanyuan champions, Sasikiran finishes ninth
Lazaro Bruzon of Cuba and Xu
Yuanyuan of China won the World Junior Boys and Girls title at
Erevan, Armenia, while Chennai Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran
finished ninth...
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Humpy and Deep Sengupta strike
Gold, Harika wins Silver
Koneru Humpy and Deep Sengupta
won the Gold in their respective categories, Under 14 Girls and
Under 12 Boys, while Dronavalli Harika won the Silver in Under 10
Girls making it a grand triple medal triumph at the World Youth
Chess Festival, Spain...
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Mikhail
Gurevich claims title, Ravi and Kidambi make the list
Grandmaster Mikhail Gurevich claimed the
championship garnering seven points, though two others - Ivan
Sokolov and Tregubov - also had same number points, they finished
behind Gurevich as he had better progressive scores....
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Anand
wins World Cup, beats Bareev 1.5-0.5
India's
Viswanathan Anand playing with great enterprise, defeated Russian
Grandmaster Evegeny Bareev to win the second game of the finals
and the World Chess Cup 2000 at Shenyang, China...
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Hodgson
retains title, Humpy British Ladies Champion
13 year old Koneru Humpy of
Vijayawada, sponsored by Bank of Baroda won her final round to
login 6.5 points in the 87th British Open at Somerset...
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Sundararajan
Kidambi becomes an International Master
17
year old Chennai lad Sundararajan Kidambi became India's latest
International Master with a hardworking final round victory over
Boris Ponomariov of Ukraine in the Biel Open, Switzerland...
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Anand triumphs in a big way at Frankfurt Giants
World No. 2 Viswanathan Anand of India triumphed at the star studded Fujitsu Siemens Giants Rapid Chess Meet, Frankfurt with a round to spare...
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Kramnik, Anand share first place
July 17
Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanthan Anand emerged the joint winners with six points at the end of the ninth and final
round of the Dortmund Chess meet...
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Ramesh holds
Psakhis July 17
International Master R B Ramesh held Grandmaster Lev Psakhis of Israel in the tenth and final round to tie for the second place
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Yatsishin
leads
Third
seeded Yatsishin of Ukraine leads the first World cup for Blind
with six points at the end of the seventh round at Bensaque in
Spain...
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Ramesh misses GM norm, finishes sixth July
04
Grandmaster Lev Psakhis of Israel beat Argentinian IM Alfredo Giaccio to come out clear winner with 7.5 points in the Andorra International Open Chess tournament at Andorra on July 3, 2000... |
Shanghai
Champion, Madras finishes third June
30
Shanghai University, China with a record score of 26 points lifted the glittering Global Youth Tertiary Institutes Chess Challenge 2000 trophy at the Nanyang Technological University Chess Centre, Singapore... |
Anand wins
Advanced Chess title in León June
05
World No. 2 GM Viswanathan Anand of India defeated GM Alexei Shirov of Spain 1.5-0.5 in the two-game final to win the Advanced Chess title... |
Sadvakasov champion at Bali, Sasikiran finishes 8th
May
15
Former World
Junior Champion, GM Darmen Sadvakasov of Kazakhstan won the $20000
Japfa Open held at Bali... |
Nenashev captures Dubai Open title
GM Alexander Nenashev of Uzbekistan clinched the title in the second
Dubai Open Chess Championship with a 7/9 score... |
Harikrishna retains Asian title, Indians complete a near sweep
Led by Pendyala
Harikrishna India came up with a strong show winning five of the six titles in the offing
in the Asian Youth chess championships...
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Kasparov beats Anand, takes Iceland Rapid title
GM Gary Kasparov of Russia won the Chess@Iceland Rapid Chess tourney
defeating World No.2 GM Viswanathan Anand of India in a blitz... |
Shirov triumphs
at Amber, Monte Carlo
Spanish
Grandmaster Alexie Shirov won the Amber tournament with a quick 24
move draw with Ukraine's Vassily Ivanchuk. Shirov had tied for the
first place with Kramnik in 1998 editon of the tournament... |
Kramnik, Kasparov share title,
Linares
Vladmir Kramnik and Gary Kasparov, both from Russia, finished
as joint winners at the end of the tenth and final round of the
Linares... |
Kasparov retains title, Anand finishes second, Wijk Aan Zee
Russian
Garry Kasparov won the Corus Super Grandmasters' chess tournament at
Wijk Aan Zee defeating the world's top-ranked women player Judit
Polgar of Hungary... |
Anand
wins Wydra Rapid play title
World
No. 2 GM Viswanathan Anand won the Wydra Rapid play Chess title in
Haifa, Israel with a 9.5/14 score... |
Anand emerges
champion at Warsaw Blitz Chess
Topseed Indian Grand Master Viswanathan Anand started the millennium on a
victorius note, winning the 629 player Plus GSM World Blitz Chess Cup by half a point on
Sunday Jan 10, 2000... |
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