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November 11th, 2009 MOSCOW - Viswanathan Anand found a novel way against Peter Leko to register the lone win in the fifth round and join Vladimir Kramnik in shared lead at the Tal Memorial chess tournament. Anand outplayed Leko in a 45-move game in the Anti-Meran Gambit and won through with white pieces.

September 27th, 2009 AMSTERDAM - India's Krishnan Sasikiran drew his final round game with former local legend Jan Timman in the prestigious Inventi Chess 2009 Grandmaster tournament to finish tied second in the final standings. The 28-year-old Indian had three wins, five draws and one loss in the 10-man tournament which concluded Friday.

September 24th, 2009 Big chess rematch in Spain: Kasparov beats KarpovMADRID — Garry Kasparov soundly defeated Anatoly Karpov on Thursday in an exhibition chess match marking the 25th anniversary of their first title bout. On the last of three days of play that resumed a legendary rivalry, Kasparov won five games of speed chess, while Karpov took one game and two others ended in a draw.

September 24th, 2009 Kasparov beats Karpov in exhibition chess matchMADRID — Garry Kasparov has defeated Anatoly Karpov in an exhibition chess match marking the 25th anniversary of their first title bout. On the last of three days of play, Kasparov won five games of speed chess, while Karpov took one game and two others ended in a draw.

September 23rd, 2009 Kasparov leads Karpov 3-1 in chess rematchMADRID — Garry Kasparov stretched his lead over Anatoly Karpov to 3-1 Wednesday on the second day of an exhibition chess match commemorating the 25th anniversary of their marathon first title bout. Karpov, 58, won his first game of the unofficial tournament, which is being played in the eastern city of Valencia after Kasparov abandoned the game.

September 22nd, 2009 In big chess rematch, Kasparov leads Karpov 2-0MADRID — Garry Kasparov beat Anatoly Karpov in two games Tuesday at the start of an exhibition chess match marking the 25th anniversary of their first title bout, a grueling event that was eventually ended after five months. The two grandmasters resumed their legendary rivalry in two so-called semi-rapid games, in which each player starts off with 25 minutes on the clock and has five seconds added after each move.

September 22nd, 2009 LONDON - The arch-rivals of world chess, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, are set to take on each other after a gap of nineteen years when they meet in Spain. he Russian grandmasters have set aside their differences to play 12 rapid and semi-rapid games over four days in Valencia, The Telegraph reports.

September 21st, 2009 Kasparov, Karpov set for chess clash in SpainMADRID — Chess eminences Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov are dusting off their knights and pawns for an exhibition rematch marking the 25th anniversary of their first title bout — a grueling one that lasted five months and was eventually halted. The two former champions will play 12 games of two kinds of speed chess starting Tuesday in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia.

September 1st, 2009 KOLKATA - Though it has one of the strongest fields ever seen in a chess tournament in Asia, the organisers of the fourth Kolkata Open Grandmasters tournament here are faced with an acute financial crisis for want of sponsors. As the tournament which features two Super Grandmasters with 2700 plus elo rating - top seed Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (2721) of Azerbaijan and Englishman Nigel Short (2706) - besides 35 Grandmasters, got underway Tuesday, the organisers were running from pillar to post to meet the monetary shortfall.

September 1st, 2009 KOLKATA - A Belgian-Ukrainian Grandmaster and his International Master wife, here to take part in the Kolkata Open Chess, lost their passports shortly after the tournament's opening ceremony Tuesday. Vadim Malakhatko and his Belgian wife Anna Zozulia found their bag missing from inside the playing arena at the Gorky Sadan.

August 27th, 2009 LONDON - A new study from University of Munster has found that competitors who wear red are more likely to win than those dressed in any other colour. Lead researcher Norbert Hagemann showed that those who wear red tops, jackets or clothing score 10 per cent more in any competition than if they were in another colour.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian rugby team has been advised to eat at least 15 eggs per day, if they wish to compete with their bulky counterparts at next year's Commonwealth Games. According to the China Daily, South African coach Norman Laker told the Telegraph newspaper that he had asked the players to increase their calorie intake to make up for the weight difference between them and their competitors.

August 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian chess is on an all-time high with its players tasting success regularly at the international events, and they will be eyeing a rich haul of medals at the ONGC Asian Youth Chess Championship starting here Sunday. The event hosted by Delhi Chess Association at Tivoli Garden Resort will see more than 250 players in action in various age groups.

June 24th, 2009 School official: Iowa coach shot at high schoolDES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa high school official says the school's athletic director has been shot in the school's weight room. Aplington-Parkersburg school district board secretary says athletic director Ed Thomas was shot Wednesday morning and was airlifted to a hospital.

June 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Reigning chess champion Viswanathan Anand, who would be playing former world champion Veseline Topalov in the next World Championships, has rated the Bulgarian as a "dangerous opponent". Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a promotional event here on Tuesday, Anand described the Bulgarian grandmaster as a player who has a "decent amount of match experience" and does not get "disheartened".