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Rakesh Jha

Asian Junior Chess Championships: Priyamvada shocks Ivana

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
New Delhi: The classical format of Asian Junior Girls championship got off to a surprising start as former champion Women International Master Ivana Maria Furtado suffered a...
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Asian Junior Chess Championship: R Vaishali, Masoud winners in rapid event

Posted by ISN Admin, 8 years ago in Chess.
New Delhi: Asian Junior Open & Girls Chess Championships-2016 got off to a rousing start here at Hotel Park Plaza on Tuesday. 103 players from 12 different countries are...
Rakesh Jha

Anand gets better of Karjakin to come into lead after 11th round of the Candidates Chess tournament

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
Moscow: In a must-win situation to stay afloat in the biggest challenge of the year, five-time World Champion Viswanathan Anand got the better of Sergey Karjakin of Russia and...
Rakesh Jha

Candidates 2016 Chess: Anand beats Karjakin, jumps into joint lead

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
Moscow: A long game between Viswanathan Anand of India and Sergey Karjakin of Russia had a big impact on the standings. Karjakin was one of the co-leaders and Anand trailed by...
Rakesh Jha

Candidates Chess Tournament: Anand plays out draw with Topalov to remain in joint third position

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
Moscow: India’s ace and five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria to remain in joint third position after the end of the...
Rakesh Jha

Candidates Chess: Anand plays draw against Giri in seventh round, placed third; Karjakin, Aronian in joint lead

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
Moscow: Sergey Karjakin and Levon Aronian kept their narrow lead over the field, drawing an interesting game today to reach 4.5/7, even as India’s ace chess player and...
Rakesh Jha

World Chess Candidates: Anand defeats Topalov; takes sole lead

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
Viswanathan Anand of India won his first-round game against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria and is now the sole leader. The game was quite complicated, with Topalov sacrificing a...
Rakesh Jha

Zurich Chess Challenge: Hikaru Nakamura gets better of India’s Viswanathan Anand to win title

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
USA’s Hikaru Nakamura got the better of India’s Viswanathan Anand once again to win the Zurich Chess Challenge that concluded here. It was an amazing finish with...
Rakesh Jha

Sayantan Das makes Grandmaster norm; Popov wins Delhi International Chess title

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
New Delhi: International Master Sayantan Das defeated Vitaliy Bernadskiy of Ukraine to make a Grandmaster norm after the end of the tenth and final round of 14th Parsvnath Delhi...
Rakesh Jha

Delhi International Chess: Popov inches closer to title; Four Indians make norms

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
Russian Grandmaster Ivan Popov inched closer to the title after settling for a draw with Yuri Solodovnichenko of Ukraine in the ninth and penultimate round of the premier group...
Rakesh Jha

14th Delhi International Chess Tournament: Pradeep Kumar makes IM norm

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
Delhi: R A Pradeep Kumar continued with his brilliant run and held Vietnamese Grandmaster Nguyen Duc Hua to a draw in the eighth round of 14th Parsvnath Delhi International chess...
Rakesh Jha

Delhi International Chess: Sayantan continues impressive run, Russia's Popov surges ahead

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
Second seed Grandmaster Ivan Popov of Russia surged ahead of the field defeating Vitaly Sivuk of Ukraine in the seventh round of the premier section of 14th Parsvnath Delhi...
Rakesh Jha

Delhi Open Chess: Pradeep holds Vaibhav, inches closer to International Master norm

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
Continuing with his fine run, R A Pradeep Kumar held compatriot Grandmaster Vaibhav Suri to a draw in the fifth round of the premier category of 14th Parsvnath Delhi...
Rakesh Jha

14th Delhi International Chess: Pradeep downs Gabrielian while Bala Chandra continues his dream run

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
New Delhi: The upset galore in the premier group of 14th edition of Parsvnath Delhi International Chess festival continued as R A Pradeep Kumar caused another flutter accounting...
Rakesh Jha

Delhi International Chess: Bala Chandra shocks grandmaster Vladimir Belous

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
New Delhi: Young Indian talent Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad caused a major upset defeating eighth seed Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Belous in the second round of the premier...
Rakesh Jha

Delhi International Chess: 12-year-old Sankalp Gupta stuns grandmaster David Alberto

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
New Delhi: Unheralded 12-year-old Sankalp Gupta of Nagpur, Maharashtra created a major flutter in the very first round of the 14th Delhi Open as he shocked Italian Grandmaster...
Rakesh Jha

Over 1,400 players to take part in Delhi International Chess tournament

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
New Delhi: All records are set to be broken as the 14th edition of the Delhi International Chess will have over 1,400 participants in three categories fighting for a prize fund...
Rakesh Jha

All India Chess Federation felicitates medal winners of World Youth Chess Championship

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
New Delhi: The All India Chess Federation felicitated the 11 medal winners in the last World Youth and Cdates Chess Championship at Halkidiki in Greece. With five Gold, three...
Rakesh Jha

London Chess Classic: Anand loses to Grischuk, drops to ninth place

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
London: Defending champion Viswanathan Anand suffered yet another defeat in the London Chess Classic as the Indian Grandmaster went down to Russian Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk...
Rakesh Jha

Anand beats Topalov to score his first win in London Chess Classic

Posted by Rakesh Jha, 8 years ago in Chess.
London: Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand got the better of Veselin Topalov to score his first win in London Chess Classic on Day 5 here on Tuesday.Earlier, the first...
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