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Ivanchuk Vassily Ivanchuk, the people's favorite for all his pleasing emotional expressions, is back in the World's top 5 on the Live Chess Ratings list. He is currently on 2777. Both Anand and Carlsen have lost over 6 ELO by losing their previous round against lower rated players. Watch Ivanchuk's earlier win over Vallejo Pons:

World Champion V Anand and World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen both lost in the Sao Paolo Masters Chess tournament. While Anand's trick against Ivanchuk backfired, Carlsen blundered and lost. Play the games and see for yourself! Anand Ivanchuk 0-1 Vallejo Pons vs Carlsen 1-0

Some updated details about Peter Svidler, who recently won the World Chess Cup 2011 at Khanty Mansiysk. Name: Peter Svidler Age: 34 (6/17/1976) FIDE Title: Grandmaster (gained his GM norms in 1994) Current ELO rating: 2740 ( FIDE rating list ) Current Live Chess rating : 2760 (9th in the World, just 5 ELO points from his highest level) Current Chess960 rating: 2733 Current coach: IM Andrei Lukin Hobbies: Listening to good music, reading, cricket and any kind of billiards Courtesy his official Web site www.psvidler.net

IM Rathnakaran Here are some noteworthy results of Round 5 live! K Rathnakaran and P Shyam Nikil maintained their all win record after the fifth round of the Mumbai Mayor's cup by winning against co-leaders Himanshu Sharma and K Priyadarshan. The other leaders, Enamul Hossain and S Sathyapragyan drew their match and thus fell behind by 0.5 points. Results: Enamul Hossain drew S Satyapragyan K Rathnakaran  bt Himanshu Sharma P Shyam Nikil bt K Priyadarshan A Aleksandrov bt R R Laxman R Siddharth lost to Kravtsiv

S Satyapragyan Several Grand Masters fell by the wayside in the fourth round of the Mumbai Mayor's Cup International Chess tournament at Goregaon. S Satyapragyan Swayangsu beat GM Chadaev while P Shyam Nikil beat young GM SP Sethuraman. Others to belt out wins against GMs were IM K Rathnakaran against GM Ziaur Rahman, and Akash Thakur against GM Kotanjian. Top seed GM Aleksandraov, GM Kunte, GM Murshed were held to draws by R Prasanna, Anwesh Upadhyaya, and GB Joshi respectively. Six players lead the table with a maximum of 4 points each.

C Aravindh is coming up with sensational performances. The 12 year old boy has just beaten Grand Master D Sengupta in the Mumbai Mayor's Chess tournament. Just last week, he won the Indian Junior Chess title ahead of much stronger rivals. Here's his rating rise in the last two years. It is bound to shoot much higher after his show in the Junior Championship and the Mumbai tournament. http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?event=5072786 Incidentally, Pon Krithikha won the Girls Junior title at Goa.

Grischuk and Svidler in an old photo Peter Svidler continued his fine touch with the black pieces and overcame a novelty from Grischuk in the finals of the World Cup Chess 2011 in the Ugorian Chess Academy at Khanty-Mansiysk. Ivanchuk could not convert his advantage against team mate Ponomariov and their game ended in a draw. Watch Svidler outfox Grischuk:

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Peter Svidler has been in good form in this year's World Cup Chess tournament. He has progressed to the final, where he plays Grischuk. Svidler beat Judit Polgar before eliminating Ruslan Ponomariov in an amazing show of strength, where Ponomariov's draw was declined in a very technical position. Incidentally, Svidler has been in great touch with the black pieces against formidable opponents. Here are the winning games in the most recent rounds. Polgar vs Svidler: Ponomariov vs Svidler:

Ivanchuk's blunder in the fast paced games: