Viswanathan Anand suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of FIDE World champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan in the first game of the final. LEON: Viswanathan Anand suffered a shocking defeat at ...

Kasimdzhanov struck another major surprise of the championship and now leads the six-game match 1.5-0.5. It may be recalled that coming to the finals, the Uzbek had shown the exit door to three of the ...

Kasimdzhanov's big claim to fame is the FIDE World championship title that he won last year at Tripoli in Libya. There too the Uzbek was at his best in tackling the shorter time control games and now ...

Tripoli: Top seed Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria lost to Uzbekistan’s Rustam Kasimdzhanov in the semi-final of the world chess championship. Kasimdzhanov, who won both tie-break games after the players ...

Grandmaster B Adhiban continued to stay in joint lead after holding former world champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan to an easy draw in the fourth round of the Asian Chess Championship. The day ...

Bonn, Germany: Indian ace Viswanathan Anand named former world champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov as one of his seconds for the high-profile World Championship match against Russian Grandmaster Vladimir ...

Defending champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov handed Viswanathan Anand [Images] a crushing defeat in the fourth round of the World Chess Championship being played in San Luis, Argentina. The loss proved ...

World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand will go into the World Chess Championship 2013 without two of his main team members: Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan and Peter Heine Nielsen of Denmark. Rustam ...

Living up to his fighting qualities, Grandmaster Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan crashed through the defences of Englishman Michael Adams in the second game of the finals of the World Chess ...