| Tournaments
Abroad - 2001 |
More >> 2002
| 2000 | 1999 |
 Ponomariov becomes the
youngest World Champion
18 year old Ukraine Grandmaster Ruslan Ponomariov became the
youngest ever World Champion in the game of Chess drawing his
seventh round game against Ivanchuk taking an unassailable lead of
4.5-2.5 and thus walks into history...More
|
Sasikiran, Harikrishna
and Barsov share title-Hastings
IM Tejas Bakre (2446) of India won the tournament with 9.5 points
with draw against Ilincic Zlatko in the last and final round and
achieved his 2nd GM Norm. Koneru Humpy (2484) drew the last round
against IM Paschall William (2393) of USA and finished fourth in
this strong category X tournament with 7.5 points and missed her
third GM norm by 1.5 points.
|
Bakre wins First Saturday GM
tourney-Budapest
IM Tejas Bakre (2446) of India won the tournament with 9.5 points
with draw against Ilincic Zlatko in the last and final round and
achieved his 2nd GM Norm. Koneru Humpy (2484) drew the last round
against IM Paschall William (2393) of USA and finished fourth in
this strong category X tournament with 7.5 points and missed her
third GM norm by 1.5 points.
|
|
 Harika strikes
silver, Georgia takes four golds
Andhra prodigy Dronavalli Harika got the lone Indian medal winning the Silver in
the Under 12 Category,a repeat of last year where she won the Silver in the Under 10
Category. Among others, Georgia struck the jackpot winning four golds at
Oropesa, here
today...
|
|
 Humpy wins
@ Belgrade, makes her
second GM Norm
Junior World Champion Koneru Humpy made it two in a row, adding Belgrade along with her
Budapest title. She'd earlier made her second men's Grandmaster Norm making it a dream run
for the 14 year old Indian...
|
|
 Anand retains Corsica Rapid
title
India's Viswanathan Anand came up trumps when it mattered and retained the
title of the Corsica Open Rapid with an even score against GM Alexander Chernin of
Hungary...
|
|
Humpy wins First Saturday title, Budapest
Junior World Champion Koneru Humpy added one more feather to her cap winning the First Saturday GM tournament at Budapest here today. Humpy drew her last round match against GM Todorovic Goran and logged in 7.5 points...
|
|
 International Master Saravanan finishes
seventh at Zaragoza
International Master V Saravanan of BPCL, Chennai tied for the seventh place with 6.0 points from nine rounds at Zaragoza Open, Spain here today.....
|
|
Humpy
is the World Junior Champion
Woman Grandmaster Koneru Humpy defeated Paehtz Elisabeth in a tense final round game, taking the Junior World Champion title with 9.5 points after the 13th round here today.....
|
|
Harikrishna
beats GM Anagnostopoulos, wins title
Grandmaster-in-waiting Pendyala Harikrishna eclipsed GM Dimitri Anagnostopoulos of Greece in the final round and wriggled out of a three-way tie to win the Commonwealth Chess Championships
at London....
|
|
Visweswaran excels in Kieler Open
After his third tournament campaign in Denmark, Visweswaran
Kameswaran, the enthusiastic chess star from India, started his performance in Kieler Open, which went on from 18th to 24th of August 2001....
|
|
Viswanathan Anand emerges
Villarobledo champion
World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India took the Villarobledo International Open Rapid play title with 7.5 points in a field of 36 Grandmasters and 22 International Masters at
Villarobledo, Spain...
|
|
 A
historic visit to Jaffna
Officials of the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka (CFSL), headed by Derrick Perera, President of the CFSL, braved the scare of guns and bombs and returned home successfully after conducting a provincial tournament for junior chess players in Jaffna recently.....
|
|
Smith
& Williamson 2001 - British Championship
The group of Indian youngsters have made tremendous performance in
various age groups in the Smith & Williamson British
Championships recently. Parimarajan Negi, India's second ranked
under 8 player has fetched the under 9 title............
|
|
Boris
Avrukh wins title in Biel chess
GM Boris Avrukh of Israel won the tournament winning the tie-break games against compatriot GM Mihal Kobalija after drawing
the classical games in the Biel Masters Chess. Avrukh had defeated
Ramesh in tie-break games to advance into the final yesterday.....
|
|
Mathias Womacka wins title, Sasikiran ties for 7th place
IM Mathias Womacka of Germany with 7.5 points, won the Czech Gramndmaster Open tournament title after the ninth round, today. Five players tie for the 2nd - 6th place with 7.0 points.....
|
|
Visweswaran
ties for the 19th place
Indian globetrotter K
Visweswaran who started his third tournament campaign in Denmark
with fine victories in the first two rounds in the Politiken Cup
at Copenhagen won the last.....
|
Kasturi
wins Asian Junior title
M Kasthuri of India won the Asian Junior Championship held at
Tehran with 8.5 points, followed by Subbaraman Meenakshi and Tania
Sachdev (both from India) with 8.0 points each.......
|
Kramnik pips
Topalov, takes the title in tie break
Braingames Champion Grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik edged Bulgarian Grandmaster Veselin Topalov to take the title at the Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2001 at Stadt Theatre............
|
Viswanathan
Anand is the King of Rhine
World Champion Viswanathan Anand took the Chess Classic Mainz
title winning the tie breaks over Braingames Champion Vladimir
Kramnik after the regular ten game match ended 5-5......
|
|
Visweswaran
finishes sixth
The dynamic and
enterprising chess star from Chennai, K Visweswaran (Elo 2301) who
arrived in Denmark after a sojourn of five months......
|
|
Humpy wins
Lipa International, Hungary
Koneru Humpy lifted the Hotel Lipa International Grandmasters
Chess Tournament with 8.5 points after her draw against Rajlich
Vasik of USA in Hungary...
|
Anand does a hat-trick at Leon
World champion Viswanathan Anand crashed through the defences of
GM Alexei Shirov of Spain to register a rare hat-trick of triumphs
in Advance Chess tournament here.....
|
Lazaro
Bruzon Champion, Sasikiran third
Junior World Champion Lazaro Bruzon of Cuba beat Frenchman Bacrot
in
the tie break game to take the title, while Indian Grandmaster
Krishnan Saskiran took the third place defeating IM Volokitin of
Ukraine 1.5-0.5 at Lausanne...
|
Anand
holds Short, wins title
Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand of India drew his final round game
with English Grandmaster Nigel Short and clinched the title with
4.5 points......
|
|
Sasikiran and Pallavi
Champs
Led by Krishnan Sasikiran and Pallavi Shah, it was an Indian show all the way in the final day of Asian Zonal Chess Championships at Hotel Airport Garden, Colombo here today.....
|
IM
E Postny, the winner on tiebreak
The Israel open Chess Championship was held from 9th April 2001 to
17th April 2001 at Sol & Sissy Mark centre, Tagore St., Ramat
Aviv, Israel. Surprisingly, Tagore St. derives its name from Great
Sh. Rabindranath Tagore who is a well acknowledged personality
there....
|
Asrian
wins Dubai Open
Grandmaster Asrian Karen of Armenia won the Dubai Open Chess
Championship 2001 on better technical scores while Indian
challenge came to an end with most of the Indian players settling
for a draw in the ninth and final round.......
|
Jim
Plaskett, the Champion
James Plaskett of England with 7.0 points won the tournament after
the final round at University College School, Hampstead, London......
|
Visweswaran
stuns Grandmaster Novikov,
finishes second
The rising Indian star
K Visweswaran finished second in the Maryland Open, USA with a 4/5
score. His tremendous conquest included a big win over Grandmaster
Igor Novikov of Ukraine......
|
Novikov
Foxwoods champ in a tie break
Grandmaster Igor
Novikov of Ukraine took the Foxwoods Open title with 5.5 points in
a seven way tie for the first place. India's Kameswaran
Visweswaran finished with 4.0 points in the massive seven round
swiss tourney...
|
Humpy
stuns Irina Krush, Nicholas Pert Oakham Champion
Koneru Humpy
continued her fine home run defeating tournament leader Irina
Krush in the final round making her first IM Norm, while young
Englishman Nicholas Pert won the title...
|
Juswanto
Wotulo Champion, Sasikiran seventh
International Master
Danny Juswanto of Indonesia took the title with 9.5 points ahead
of Grandmasters Hulak, Meizes and Sasikiran. India No. 2
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran finished in the middle with 7.0
points...
|
Kramnik
and Topalov share Amber title
Braingames Champion
Vladimir Kramnik and Bulgarian Super Grandmaster Veselin Topalov
shared the title in the 10th Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament
at Monte Carlo....
|
Kasparov
wins Rapid World Cup
Top seed Gary Kasparov
won the Rapid World Cup title defeating fellow Russian Evgeny
Bareev 1.5-0.5 in the finals at Cannes, France.....
|
|
Kasparov cruises to Linares title
World No. 1 Gary
Kasparov comfortably won the traditional Linares Super GM tourney
with a massive three point lead scoring 7.5 points...
|
Ehlvest
pips Volzhin for the title
Top seed Estonian
Grandmaster Jaan Ehlvest with a late second half spurt nosed out
GM Alexander Volzhin for the title at Dhaka. Both logged 8.5
points apiece but the Estonian took the title with a superior
tie-break......
|
Akopian
crowned Ubeda Champion
Former FIDE Runner-up
Grandmaster Vladimir Akopian of Armenia added another feather to
his cap winning the Ubeda International Open Chess Tournament...
|
Sturua,
Bacrot joint winners in Linares Open
French
prodigy GM Etinne Bacrot and GM Zurab Sturua of Georgia emerged
winners in the Linares Open with 8.5 points, India's R B Ramesh
entered the prize list with 6.5 points defeating GM Garcia Silvino
in the final round...
|
 Anand outplays Van
Wely, finishes second
World Champion Viswanathan Anand
quickly disposed the challenge of GM Loek Van Wely of the
Netherlands in the 13th and final round to finish second in the
Corus Super GM tourney....
|
Sasikiran
shares Hastings title with GM Conquest
Chennai
Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran made a fine start to the year with
a title triumph in the famed Hastings tourney in England......
|
Top |
