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Viswanathan Anand has asserted that Virat Kohli got a bit emotional and had no control while he asked a fan to “leave India” on social media last week. The chess legend has also mentioned that in sports you see many characters and the one of the Indian skipper fits him the best.

The Indian challenge came to an end at the World Women Chess Championship as Grandmaster D Harika lost to Russia’s Alexandra Kosteniuk. There will be no Indian representation in this USD 450000 world championship which will continue with last three rounds still to go in the women championship.

It was a mixed day for India at the Isle of the Man International Chess Tournament on Thursday as a Viswanathan Anand won his third victory and B. Adhiban held top seed Levon Aronian but, Abhijeet Gupta lost to Japenese- American chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura at the event.

India has won the prestigious India–China Chess Summit for the first time by beating China in the final round in a very comprehensive manner. India broke the winning streak of China by match points 9 - 7 and game points 15.5 - 16.5 on the final day of the summit held in Bhubaneswar.