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The press conference for the Anand vs Kramnik World Chess Championship match was held. Both the players were reported to be in a good mood and the answers were laced with humour. The most interesting part was the announcement of the teams. Anand has Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan. Rustam is a very respected analyst and has many training DVDs on his name. Also in the team are Radoslav Wojtaszek (Poland), Surya Shekhar Ganguly (India) and of course, the now stable Peter Heine Nielsen of Denmark. Kramnik has Peter Leko (Yes!), Sergey Rublevsky (Russia) and Laurent Fressinet (France) Both the players felt that there will be no controversies as in the Toilet gate match.

Nigel Short was crowned the 2008 Commonwealth Chess Champion at Nagpur, India. Surya Shekhar Ganguly finished second a half point behind. This was an amazing performance by Short considering the fact that he was beaten by a local kid in an earlier round . World Junior Champion Abhijeet Gupta suffered in the early rounds and finished way behind in the points tally. D P Singh, who was involved in a huge controversy and accused of taking computer assistance some time back, finished on 8 points and above his expected score. Leading Final Points Tally Short 9.5 Ganguly 9 Hossain 8.5 More details at the official site