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Swayams Mishra has become India’s 62nd Grandmaster chess player after getting his third and final GM norm at the Polonia Wroclaw Master Cup in Poland. The 26-year-old chess player Mishra had claimed his first GM norm in 2014 during the KIIT Open which was held in his home town Bhubaneswar.

India chess ace Nihal Sarin became the third youngest player in the history after America’s John Burke and China’s Wei Yi to surpass 2600 Elo rating barrier. With this, Sarin has overcome fellow Indian Parimarjan Negi, who had achieved 2600 Elo at the age of 15 years and 11 months.

P Iniyan has put up a satisfactory performance to reach the eighth position in the Dubai Open Chess Championship, which was played between March 31 and April 12 April. He secured wins over various Indian players in the runup to the final round, and ended up at the best position among them.

Viswanathan Anand had to make do with the fourth spot in the recently concluded Shamkir Chess Open held in Azerbaijan as he played out a draw former world championship challenger Veselin Topalov. Meanwhile, Norway’s Magnus Carlsen won his final bout against Russia’s Alexander Grischuk.

13-year-old Divya Deshmukh had to stage a fight back for the second time in eight days in the 21st Dubai Open on Monday, as she slogged for over four hours to make to advance in the international rated meet. Other city masters, Shailesh Dravid and Mrudul Dehankar lost their respective games.