Sunday, September 04, 2011

Chess News
At FIDE World Cup Chess Tournament 2011, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia

Round Three
[G2] Xiangzhi Bu (CHN,2666) 1-0 Abhijeet Gupta (IND,2627) 1½-½

Higher ranked Chinese Xiangzhi Bu defeated Abhijeet Gupta playing with white in the second game ... With this loss Indian challenge got over from this World cup.
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At The Mikhail Botwinnik Rapid Tournament, Moscow, Russia

Viswanathan Anand won the Mikhail Botwinnik rapid tournament in Moscow with a commanding performance ... Anand won beating his recent nemesis Levon Aronian of Armenia twice and then in a crucial last-round game, needing a draw to win the title, he destroyed world no. 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway to log 4.5 points, 1.5 points above Vladimir Kramnik of Russia and Levon Aronian ... Anand had dawn both his games with Kramnik.

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