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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Harikrishna’s team OSC Baden-Baden won the German premier league ‘Bundesliga’ with a fantastic score of 29 Match points.
The team that is led by none other than Viswanathan Anand won the event by a huge 5 points margin over Werder Bremen that finished second on 24 points. It was a […]
Final round report
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Grandmaster P Harikrishna played out a safe draw with Etienne Bacrot in the final round to finish clear fourth on 7.5 points. Harikrishna will get a marginal increase in his rating from his performance here.
Levon Aronina and Magnus Carlsen jointly won the ‘A’ group while Fabiano Caruana defeated Parimarjan Negi to win the ‘C’ group […]
Harikrishna draws with Sargissian, joint fifth now
Friday, January 25th, 2008Grandmaster P Harikrishna played out a draw with Gabriel Sargissian of Armenia in the 10th round of Corus International Chess tournament at Wijk Aan Zee in Holland.
Harikrishna again got a slightly better position and for another time in the tournament his form betrayed him a bit as Sargissian came […]
Harikrishna joint third with four to come
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Grandmaster P Harikrishna drew with state-mate Koneru Humpy in the ninth round of the ‘B’ Group of Corus International Chess tournament at Wijk Aan Zee in Holland.
Playing the black side of a Neo-Grunfeld, Harikrishna did not have much difficult in holding out his position as the central pawns got traded […]
Harikrishna held by Movsesian
Friday, January 18th, 2008Grandmaster P Harikrishna played out an exciting draw with GM Sergei Movsesian of Slovakia in the fifth round of the ‘B’ Group of Corus International Chess tournament now in progress here.
Having won the fourth round after a tough fight with Wouter Spoelman of the Netherlands, Harikrishna had his chances against Movsesian […]
Harikrishna draws with Stellwagen
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Grandmaster P Harikrishna played out a hard-fought draw as black against GM Daniel Stellwagen of Holland in the third round of the ‘B’ group of Corus International Chess tournament at Wijk Aan Zee.
The SUN-group sponsored Harikrishna slipped to joint third spot on 2 points after the draw but it […]
Harikrishna beats Yifan Hou, in joint lead
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Grandmaster P Harikrishna played imaginatively to beat GM Hou Yifan of China and emerged as a joint leader after the conclusion of the second round of the ‘B’ Group of Corus International Chess tournament at Wijk Aan Zee in Holland.
After an eventful draw against his former trainer Nigel Short in the opener, Harikrishna needed to […]
Harikrishna survives a scare in Corus opener
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Grandmaster P Harikrishna survived a few anxious moments before settling for a draw with ’settled-in-Greece’ English GM Nigel Short in the first round of the Corus group ‘B’ chess tournament now in progress in the Dutch hamlet Wijk Aan Zee.
Playing white Harikrishna came up with an opening surprise on the first move itself as Short […]
Harikrishna wins
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Indian GM P Harikrishna came firing on all cylinders to beat GM Yifan Hou of China in a keenly contested game and emerged as joint leader on 1.5 points with five others in the Group ‘B’, being played simultaneously.Harikrishna became the first Indian to score a victory in the Corus tournament as Koneru Humpy played […]
Hari finishes joint second
Thursday, January 10th, 2008NEW DELHI: P. Hari Krishna shared the second spot with two others winning his ninth round game against Konstantin Landa of the Reggio Emilia International chess tournament at Reggio Emilia (Italy) on Monday.
Hungary’s Zoltan Almasi drew with Azebaijan’s Vugar Gashimov in 15 moves to win the title with six points.
The results (ninth round): P. Hari […]