Adhiban is leading national premier championship 2009 after 8 rounds, while Meenakshi is leading in womens tournament after 7 rounds. In the meanwhile, Sriram Jha completed his 3rd GM norm to become a GM. Adhiban also obtained his 1st GM norm. Swapnil...

Czech chess coal match 2009 was played between team of young chess women vs team of old chess champions. Humpy participated in this and came up with a fine performance to help young women team beat old hands

Sasikiran, Ganguli and Chanda have advanced to the second round but crashed out in this round of world cup chess 2009

SP Sethuraman has won under 16 world youth chess 2009 gold, while Vidit Gujrathi has won silver in the same category. Sai krishna and Saranya have won under 14 bronze medals Murali karatikeyan and Ivana furtado have won under 10 silver...

Anand has finished on second position in 42 round world blitz chess championship 09. This is still creditable considering he is almost 40 yrs old now.