There is no doubt that 10 draws took the sheen off the world chess championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Israeli GM Boris Gelfand. Pundits feel that the spate of draws has deprived the tit

India’s Viswanathan Anand retained his world chess championship title on Wednesday by beating Boris Gelfand of Israel in a tiebreak after the regular games had ended 6-6.

Anand won the rapid playoffs

India's world chess champion Viswanathan Anand on Wednesday took the early lead against his Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand in a rapid fire battle of nerves to decide the biggest prize in the sport.

Defending champion Viswanathan Anand will have a lot to think about ahead of the last game of the Chess World Championship against Boris Gelfand of Israel here.

With the scores tied 5.5-5.5 after 11

Viswanathan Anand settled for an easy draw as white against Challenger Boris Gelfand in the 10th game of the World Chess Championship here on Thursday.

Playing his penultimate white game in the 12-g

Defending champion Viswanathan Anand will have to withstand pressure from challenger Boris Gelfand in the penultimate game if the Indian ace has to remain within striking range of winning his fourth s

After two decisive games, defending champion GM Viswanathan Anand of India held on to a draw with Israeli GM Boris Gelfand in 49 moves in the ninth game of the world chess championship at the State Tr

Defending champion GM Viswanathan Anand of India levelled the scores at 4-4 by defeating Israeli GM Boris Gelfand in 17 moves in the eighth game of the world chess championship at the State Tretyakov

Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand suffered a jolt in his title defence as he lost to his Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand in the seventh game of the World Chess Championship here on Sunday.

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Chess legend Garry Kasparov believes that reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand has lost motivation and the Indian, who is defending his title against Boris Gelfand right now, has been 'sliding do