Tata chess: Praggnanandhaa beats Arjun, shares lead with Abdusattorov

Each Praggnanandhaa and Abdusattorov have 2.5 factors every.

It turned out to be a wonderful day for the 19-year-old Indian as he dealt with the Catalan opening to perfection, getting a tiny benefit and squeezing out the defensive sources proper from the early center recreation stage.

After the commerce of Queens, the gamers reached a rook and knight endgame whereby Erigaisi’s fractured pawns on the queenside got here below the scrutiny.

Gradual manoeuvring ensued and Praggnanandhaa methodically received a pawn on the king facet earlier than his rooks got here in to play from the opposite flank.

The sport lasted 60 strikes handing Erigaisi his second defeat in three days after his opening spherical loss to a different compatriot P Harikrishna.

World Champion D Gukesh had it simple as white as he performed out a draw with high seed Fabiano Caruana of United States to take himself to 2 factors out of a attainable three within the first main chess match of the yr.

Taking part in with white, it was a uncommon recreation by Gukesh as he determined towards taking any dangers. The Queen pawn opening was met the Ragozine protection and Caruana acted true to the need of the place to increase his king facet pawns.

On one other day, Gukesh would have gone all out however right here, the Indian determined fairly quickly that combating for a bonus was in all probability not on playing cards.

This was the primary recreation to finish within the Masters’ part and it simply lasted 24 strikes when the draw was agreed to vide repetition of strikes.

Harikrishna was held to a draw by debutant Leon Luke Mendonca who lastly opened his account.

The Nimzo Indian by Harikrishna didn’t have the specified affect as Mendonca, for as soon as, determined to be very strong and never take too many probabilities. Harikrishna pressured a perpetual in the long run to maneuver to 1.5 factors.

With 9 rounds nonetheless remaining within the first tremendous match of the yr, Gukesh, Caruana and Vincent Keymer of Germany share the third spot whereas Harikrishna is within the subsequent bunch of 4 gamers on 1.5 factors every.

Within the challengers’ part, the Indian ladies had a forgettable day as R Vaishali misplaced to Nogerbek Kazybek of Kazakhstan whereas Divya Deshmukh discovered her nemesis in Aydin Suleymanli of Azerbaijan.

It was a really entertaining day within the challengers for the chess buffs as all seven video games ended decisively with the participant as white successful all of the video games.

Outcomes spherical 3:

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Masters: Anish Giri drew with Vladimir Fedoseev ; Fabiano Caruana drew with D Gukesh ; R Praggnanandhaa beat Erigaise Arjun ; Leon Luke Mendonca drew with P Harikrishna ; Max Warmerdam misplaced to Nodirbek Abdusattorov ; Wei Yi drew with Vincent Keymer ; Jorden van Foreest drew with Alexey Sarana .

Challengers: Aydin Suleymanli beat Divya Deshmukh ; Nguyen Thai Dai Van beat Nodirbek Yakubboev ; Nogerbek Kazybek beat R Vaishali ; Miaoyi Lu beat Svane Frederik ; Ediz Gurel beat Arthur Pijpers ; Oro Faustino beat Irina Bulmaga ; Erwin L’Ami beat Benjamin Bok .

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