Sasikiran, Henrichs win Hogeschool Zeeland

This event took place in a very beautiful Dutch seafront location: in Vlissingen, historically known as Flushing, from where the Dutch Empire was built in the 17th century. Two players of a total of 250 scored 7.5/9, with top seed GM Krishnan Sasikiran of India beating German IM Thomas Henrichs on tie-break points. Five players followed half a point behind. Illustrated report.

Fantastic Atalik Wins Negroponte Open

GM Suat Atalik was unstoppable, scored seven victories and conceded only two draws, for a total of impressive 8.0 points from nine games in such a strong field with more than 30 Grandmasters. Read more

World Junior Titles for Andreikin & Muzychuk, India's Padmini Rout gets Bronze

Top seed Dmitry Andreikin won the World Junior Championship (under 20) in Chotowa, Poland. In girl's section, Padmini Rout of Orissa won the bronze medal , while Anna Muzychuk won gold with 11/13.For details, read here

Adhiban Becomes India's 23rd Grandmaster

Final norm at the Olomouc International tournament. Read more

Parimarjan Negi nominated for Arjuna Award 2010

The second youngest Grandmaster in the world, Parimarjan Negi figured in the list of Arjuna awardees this year.The selection committee will now submit the names to the government which will formally announce the list in the next few days

Korobov wins Czech Open, Sethuraman finishes third

Last year's winner GM Anton Korobov from Ukraine has won Main Grand Master Tournament PARDUBICE Open this year again. He was top seeded player and his victory was absolutely deserved. He is historically the first player who upheld the title. Five players shared the second place, but according to tie-breaks Swedish IM Hans Tikkanen took silver medal. He has achieved grand master norm after the eighth round. Bronze medal goes to young international master from India S.P. Sethuraman. The best Czech player GM Jiri Stocek placed the 10th position.
Czech Open results (tie-break order): 1 GM A. Korobov (Ukr) 8/9; 2-6. IM Hans Tikkanen (Swe), IM S.P. Sethuraman, GM Martyn Kravtsiv (Ukr), GM Sergey Grigoriants (Rus), GM Artur Gabrielian (Rus) 7 each; 18 IM M.R. Lalith Babu 6.5; 30 Vidit Gujrathi,34-35 IM B. Adhiban, GM Abhijit Kunte, 38 Vaibhav Suri 6 each; 88 WGM Mary Ann Gomes 5; 112 GM Sriram Jha, 127 WGM S. Meenakshi 5; 151 WGM Kiran Mohanty 4.5, 168 IM Eesha Karavde, 179 WGM Swati Ghate 4.5; 206 IM Atanu Lahiri 4...310 players.