Lalit Babu and 23 others in lead

Grandmaster Tornike Sanikidze beat Grandmaster Raset Ziatdinov in 42 strikes within the thrid spherical of the Aurionpro Grandmaster chess event on the World Commerce Centre on Wednesday.

Raset opted to alternate his queen for a few minor items and pawns, nevertheless it didn’t work to his benefit. Tornike made a second queen and ripped via the defence.

Besides for 2 boards, the remainder of the highest gamers received their third spherical. There have been as many as 24 gamers with three factors, together with Worldwide Grasp Soumya Swaminathan.

After two robust rounds, Grandmaster Lalit Babu eased to victory in 23 strikes in opposition to Prakhar Raj.

Within the junior part, 12 gamers led with three factors

The outcomes (third spherical): Levan Pantsulaia 3 bt Shrayan Majumder 2; Daksh Goyal misplaced to Manuel Petrosyan 3; Luka Paichadze 3 bt Rupesh Jaiswal 2; Arnav Agrawal 2 misplaced to Mihail Nikitenko 3; Lalit Babu 3 bt Prakhar Bajaj 2; Arshpreet Sigh 2 misplaced to Mamikon Gharibyan 3; Boris Savchenko 3 bt Alluri Reddy 2; Aamuktha Guntaka 2 misplaced to Vedant Panesar 3; Tornike Sanikidze 3 bt Raset Ziatdinov 2; Guru Prakash 2.5 drew with Deepan Chakkravarthy 2.5; Arsen Davtyan 3 bt Yohan Boricha 2; Sri Sandipagu 2 misplaced to Duc Hoa Nguyen 3; Alexander Slizhevsky 3 bt Om Nagnath 2; M Mridav 2 misplaced to Aleksej Aleksandrov 3; Alexei Fedorov 3 bt Akila Kavinda 2; Ram Parab 2 misplaced to Nayaka Budhidharma 3; Neelotpal Das 3 bt Samuel Noble 2; Dinesh Jaganathan 2 misplaced to Nithin Babu 3; Van Huy Nguyen 3 bt Adhiraj Mitra 2; Vinayak Kulkarni 2.5 drew with Semetei Tegin 2.5; David Gochelashvili 3 bt Ashish Chaudhari 2; Siddhant Salunke 2 misplaced to Soumya Swaminathan 3.

Beneath-13: Mysha Perwez 2 misplaced to Aansh Nerurkar 3; Madhesh Kumar 3 bt Advik Reddy 2; Shitiz Prasad 2 misplaced to Madhvendra Sharma 3; Samuel Noble 3 bt Rishen Jilowa 2; Hriday Maniar 2 misplaced to Shaunak Badole 3; Adhiraj Mitra 3 bt Aarav Dhayagude 2; Taseen Tadavi 2 misplaced to Vyom Malhotra 3; Jai Vanum 2 misplaced to R Nijesh 3; Sameer Shergill 2 misplaced to Andalamala Varshan 3; Ramesh Goutham 3 bt Johny Arixander 2; Shaashvat Gupta 2 misplaced to Mahir Taneja 3; Sahejveer Singh 2.5 drew with Aradhy Roy 2.5; Amber Gangwal 2 misplaced to Shaurya Singh 3; V tripurambika 1.5 misplaced to Amit Agrawal 2.5; Avirat Chauhan 2 drew with Pratyush Kumar 2; HP Angada 1.5 misplaced to Aadik Lenin 2.5.

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