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India started the Isle of Man International Tournament positively with Viswanathan Anand and H Dronavalli advancing to the next round with comfortable wins over Marc Esserman and Oyama Akito respectively. The tournament features some of the best players including World Champion Magnus Carlsen.

While Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi lost to China's Ding Liren, Sethuraman Panayappan Sethuraman was ousted by Holland’s Anish Giri in the tie-break games of the third-round. The round also saw the shocking elimination of tournament favourites like Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik and Hikaru Nakamura.

Despite suffering a few jittery moments, Viswanathan Anand managed to get the better of Malaysia’s Li Tian Yeoh to book his place in the second round of the Chess World Cup on Monday. Another Indian SP Sethuraman has also moved to the round two with a win against former champion Ruslan Ponmariov.

Viswanathan Anand failed to finish strongly in the St. Louis Rapid and Blitz Chess tournament finishing in the 9th place in the standings. Levon Aronian, however, ended up winning the tournament followed by Sergey Karjakin and Hikaru Nakamura in second and third place respectively.