The World Chess Championship took place in Sofia, Bulgaria Saturday 24th April to 11th May 2010. Viswanathan Anand won a very hard fought match 6.5-5.5 against his challenger Veselin Topalov to retain the title he had won in 2008. In the final game, Topalov’s quest for complications led to trouble and he couldn’t recover from [...]
After game 6, the colors were reversed, hence Anand again had the advantage of white pieces. Before the game, the players observed a minute’s silence as a mark of respect to former FIDE president, Florencio Campomanes, who breathed his last earlier in the day. An exciting and lengthy game 7 unravelled, with some novelties and [...]
As many of you would already be aware, Vishwanathan Anand, India’s ace GrandMaster, is currently going head to head with Veselin Topalov in the World Chess Championship. After losing the opening game, things were not looking very rosy for the otherwise brilliant Anand. However, after drawing the 3rd game, and now winning the 4th with [...]
The ICC World T20 is about to begin from the 30th of this month in the West Indies. This ICC World Twenty20 will be taking place only 10 months after the last one due to the Champions Trophy tournament in Pakistan being postponed due to security concerns and there being a need to correct the [...]