Tata Metal Chess 2025: D Gukesh maintains lead after draw towards Wei Yi, R Praggnanandhaa stuns Fabiano Caruana

World chess champion Dommaraju Gukesh stays on the prime of standings after taking part in out a draw towards China’s Wei Yi in spherical 11 of the
2025 Tata Metal Chess event in Netherlands’ Wijk aan Zee on Friday. Gukesh now has 8 factors out of a potential 11 within the Tata Metal Chess event and leads the joint second-placed R Praggnanandhaa and Nodirbek Abdusatttarov by 0.5 factors.

Praggnandhaa clinched a victory over Fabiano Caruana. Gukesh’s rankings have climbed by 16 factors and has 2793 score factors, which is one level lesser than his career-best score factors of 2794 which he achieved in October final 12 months.

Gukesh vs Wei Yi match wrap

Towards Wei Yi, Gukesh opted to play the Italian Opening and by the fifth transfer, each gamers ended up castling. In transfer eight, Gukesh sacrificed Wei’s queen with Qxd8, a transfer that persuaded Wei yi to play Rfxd8.

In the direction of the endgame, each Gukesh and Wei Yi had a rook every, and whereas Gukesh seemed to capitalise together with his bishop, Wei Yi did so by utilizing his knight. Nonetheless, neither participant may get that breakthrough and each of them agreed to attracts.

Within the Praggnanandhaa vs Caruana recreation, the Indian used the Agincourt Defence towards Caruana’s English Opening. It was an evenly-fought match till the thirty second transfer, when the Indian capitalised on Caruana’s blunder, when he performed Qe3, and 5 strikes later, Praggnanandhaa walked away with the win.

In different video games, P Harikrishna defeated Alexey Sarana whereas Leon Luke Mendonca received the higher of Vladimir Fedoseev. Arjun Erigaisi performed out a draw towards Jorden van Foreest. Divya Deshmukh defeated Irina Bulmaga within the Challengers class, whereas R Vaishali went all the way down to Aydin Suleymanli.

Tata Metal Chess standings

Masters: D Gukesh (8.0), Nodirbek Abdusattorov (7.5), Praggnanandhaa (7.5), Vladimir Fedosev (6.0), Anish Giri (6.0), Wei Yi (6.0), Fabiano Caruana (5.5), P Harikrishna (5.5), Alexey Sarana (5.0), Jorden van Foreest (4.5), Vincent Keymer (4.5), Leon Luke Mendonca (4.0), Arjun Erigaisi (3.5), Max Warmerdam (3.5).

Challengers: Erwin l’Ami (8.0), Thai Dai Van Nguyen (7.5), Aydin Suleymanli (7.5), Benjamin Bok (7.0), Frederik Svane (7.0), Kazybek Nogerbek (6.0), Nodirbek Yakubboev (6.0), Ediz Gurel (6.0), Miaoyi Lu (5.5), Arthur Pijpers (5.0), R Vaishali (5.0), Divya Deshmukh (3.0), Faustino Oro (2.5), Irina Bulmaga (1.0)