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'How could he do this ? ', 'Who is Touzane ?', would have been the first words of many a fans in India and else where in the chess world on November 27th! Olivier Touzane is the one who did the seemingly impossible that day, beating the reigning Champ Vishy Anand... K Visweswaran writes

Dec 11 - Happy Birthday Anand!!

Born this day in 1969, our champ Viswanthan Anand turns 32 today. Chathurangam wishes him the best of the best in the years to come. Like to wish our Vishy? Come on, join us...

Day 17  
The FIDE Knock Out caravan will give a deserved rest to the two finalists to recoup for the all important eight game title match scheduled to be held at Moscow from January 16th to 26th, 2002. Vassily and Ruslan, will take time off for a few days, before sitting in with some stringent preparation, for the biggest match of their careers. History is on the younger Ruslan's side and he is surely going to give it all to be crowned the youngest World Champion in the history of chess...K Visweswaran writes

Grandmaster Zhu Chen of China survived nerves and tension, taking the Women's World Champion with a 3-1 tie break score against home favorite WGM Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia...K Visweswaran writes

Next World Champion will be an Ukrainian, Ivanchuk ousts Anand
Vishy's title pursuit began with a loss and ended with a loss, albeit a more painful one. The talented Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk had his day on the sun (read snow in Moscow) when he finally put it across the defending champion Vishy Anand in a Sicilian irregular game that lasted 42 moves...K Visweswaran writes

Alexandra warms Russian hearts with a turn around victory !!
Patience sure pays, especially teenagers when they are willing to wait! The Seventeen year old chess throb of Russia needed a win with the black pieces to keep the match going...  Games| Viewer

Day 15 Ponomariov draws first blood, Anand draws, Zhu beats Kosteniuk again, snatches lead. Anand celebrated his birthday with a quiet draw in the French game lasting 27 moves against his old foe Ivanchuk...Games| Viewer

Day 14 Anand, Ivanchuk draw their second game. Svidler lets Ponomariov  get away with a draw. Zhu Chen levels the score.  Games| Viewer

Day 12 Ivanchuk lets Anand off the hook, Ponomariov holds Svidler
Both the men's semi finals ended in draws, while Svidler taunted young Ponomariov with an exchange and bishop sacrifice, the French of today saw defending champ Vishy Anand hanging on preciously with his back to the wall, when Chuky relinquished the grip...More | Games | Viewer

Day11 
Anand cruises to semi final, others in tie breaks
Ruthless !! Its the only word that can describe Vishy's draw with black pieces against Shirov today. If, having seen the "Madras Tiger" doing it in the second round against Dane Nielsen, wasn't enough, Vishy repeated it against a different and stronger opponent with as much ease and felicity.... Game |Viewer

Day10
Anand beats Shirov, other three games drawn 
World Champion Viswanathan Anand continued to power ahead with some electric play defeating the dynamic Spaniard Shirov in the first game of the quarter finals. Game |Viewer

Day 9
Anand defeats Dreev, Ponomariov stuns Morozevich
Defending champion Viswanathan Anand was brilliance personified as he outclassed Alexei Dreev of Russia in all departments of the game to storm into the quarter-finals of the World Chess Championship at the State Kremlin Palace here today...Viewer | PGN

Day 7
 Quick draw for Anand against Dreev, Ponomariov stuns Morozevich
World Champion Viswanathan Anand drew his pre quarterfinal match against Russian Grandmaster Alexei Dreev in a Queens Indian game lasting 13 moves...More | Viewer | PGN

Day 6
 Anand defeats Tkachiev 2.5-1.5, advances to round four.
Once again Anand took the easy way out with the white pieces, drawing his second tie-break game against Vladislav Tkachiev of France to move to the fourth round. Or rather, the easy way in!...Games | Viewer

Day 5 Tkachiev holds Anand, Alisa Galliamova shocked

Chance or determination - either way it was to Frenchman Vladislav Tkachiev's great relief that he managed to escape with a draw against reigning champ Viswanathan Anand in their first encounter of the third round...Game |Viewer

Day 4 Anand qualifies for Round 3, Sasikiran & Nisha exit

Viswanathan Anand made it easy for his anxious fans by easily drawing his second game against Danish Grandmaster Peter Hiene Nielsen to move to the third round. Sadly the two other Indians GM Krishnan Sasikiran and IWM  Nisha Mohota could not make it any further... Games | Viewer

Day3 Anand finds his touch again
Defending Champion Viswanathan Anand finally got going and demolished Peter Heine Nielsen (2593) of Denmark in the first game of the second round on Thursday evening here today...Game Viewer

Day 2 Anand, Sasikiran and Nisha advance

Defending Champion Viswanathan Anand and young Grandmaster Krishanan Sasikiran advanced to the second round of the World Chess Championship, in progress at the Kremlin Palace, Moscow. Anand shrugged off his tragic first day loss with the white pieces and made a strong comeback in his second game against Oliver Touzane of France...

Day 2 Major Upsets 
While Anand exhibited his class in turning the match in his favour with determined play, several top names failed to make it.  The most conspicuous exit was that of former world champion Anatoly Karpov who went down to Chinese International Master Peng Zhang Pengxiang...

Anatoly Karpov (2692) lost to Zhang Pengxiang (2487) 1-1, 0-2
Nigel Short (2675) lost to Daniel Campora (2506) 0.5-1.5
Sergei Rublevsky (2369) lost to Nguyenanh Dung (2533) 1-1, 0-2
Victor Bologan (2655) lost to Igor Nataf (2527) 0.5-1.5
Qualifiers to Round 2 in Bold

Day 1 Anand shocked, Harikrishna holds Beliavsky, Ganguly draws Khalifman

Even as India’s budding chess prodigies, Harikrishna and Ganguly, had a fine start, holding higher seeded GMs Beliavsky and Khalifman to draws, the shocking news came in the form of Viswanthan Anand's defeat at the hands of the last seed of the championship...More

Inauguration World Championships, 2001 begins

World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India defends his title in the historic Kremlin Palace, Moscow. The World Chess Championships 2001 was inaugurated today with traditional Russian gaiety and fervor. Russian President Vladimir Putin considers, “Chess does make the man wiser and clear-sighted.”  ...More